My talk is extemporaneous and I'd like to get involved in an exchange with people if possible. Only take from my talk what fits into you. Don't take things which don't fit into your personality and character. Each one of you people have to be yourself.

With myself, I try to have some quiet times, times when I'm off alone. I try not to get mixed up on the day of the games with tickets, or with other incidentals. I try to work to the maximum of my capabilities and realize beyond that, there is nothing I can do. You can't relive a game. You play the game to the best of your abilities, then after the game you go back for five minutes and analyze what happened, then after those five or ten minutes, that's it. This is a little of my philosophy.

The record I'm most pleased about during my stay at Marquette is our remarkable strength on the road. There's something in the way that I coach that makes us a great road team. South Carolina, Notre Dame, Louisville--on and on--we played 17 games on the road this year and we won 15. The two that we lost were both by one point. We lost to Michigan and we lost to Cincinnati. So there seems to be something in my make-up, that helps us do well on the road. The other thing I'm pleased about is that we've won over 25 games a year for 10 years now and that's over 250 wins, so that's a nice average also.

Let me talk a little about the games in the tournament since that might be of some interest to you. A lot of times you tend to psych yourself out. Maybe you're going up against a much bigger high school or they've got an excellent star. You know about this. When you go against another coach, you should have no love-affair with him or no vendetta against him. You should approach the game from a completely unemotional standpoint.

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