Josh Boone
Josh Boone
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It's definitely going to be fun. I haven't been able to get back in a long time, but the bottom line is we're playing basketball. It's going to be good to see people, but at the same time, we need to focus on what we need to do.
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It's about time. I haven't been playing the way that I can. Once we established that we weren't going to allow them to push us around and poke us, they got a couple of quick fouls, and once that happens to you, you can't play as physical as you want. Once we saw that, we just took it to them more.
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We have so many guys we can go to. I think we had seven or eight guys score 20 points. That speaks to our talent and the depth of our team.
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We're getting better every game and every day. Hopefully, it's just going to continue into this game and next weekend against Villanova.
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When you want to stop, and you don't think you can give any more, you think about that Pittsburgh jersey in here. Looking up at the scoreboard, seeing that you're down 10 at the end of the game. That gives you a little extra motivation.
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There are a ton of big names. That's a very tough bracket, but just about anywhere you go, it's going to be a tough bracket.
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There are a ton of big names out there. That's a very tough bracket. It doesn't matter where you go, it was going to be a very tough bracket.
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We are a businesslike team. We know what needs to be done.
playing seed
When you are a 16 seed playing a 1 seed, you've got nothing to lose.
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Over the last three years at Connecticut, I have played with, and against, the highest level of competition in college basketball. I feel now is the time for me to explore the option of testing my basketball skills against the best players in the world.
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They're on a roll, they're playing really well and it's basically going to be a home game for them. It's going to be a little bit tougher on us, but we're going to have to put everything aside and just play basketball.
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That's when we all realized that we weren't going to take any pushing anymore. We were going to push back.
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This game we really tried to work hard on our defense and work hard on getting to the offensive glass. We started to run a little bit more and it's one of the things we're going to have to do to be successful this year.
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I think at this point just about everyone knows when they come down the lane, even if they do beat the first man, there's going to be somebody there to challenge the shot. Whether they block it or just alter the shot.