Seton Hall quote book: Marquette

Kevin Willard on being able to survive the circumstances of Friday's game:
"I like the fact that Marquette came out really, really good. Both the Hausers played phenomenal first halves, really, really tough first halves, and we got down. We were a little sluggish today, I thought, mentally, we weren't as sharp as we have been. But I thought both teams played really, really hard, and both teams fought. I'm proud of the way my guys continued to fight, even though there's times we're not playing overly well."

On the officiating:
"I'll probably be -- and I'm not being political -- I thought after the 12-minute mark, when they got all that straightened out, I thought the three refs did a pretty good job, to be honest with you. It was an emotional game, it was Friday night in the Garden, Big East tournament, both teams played extremely hard, emotions were running, which -- it's the Big East -- and I thought after the scrum underneath our basket, I actually thought the refs did a great job of kind of getting everything kind of back where the kids were playing and focused on playing, and I'm not just saying that. I thought they did."

Myles Powell on Seton Hall's response to adversity:
"Like I've been saying to the media all year, the best thing about this team is we're fighters. Our back's been against the wall plenty of times, and we just came together as brothers and we had each other's back. They helped me keep my head up, Sandro did a great job for me. I love my teammates."

Willard on flashbacks to Seton Hall's 2016 Big East championship run:
"Yeah, a little bit. This team reminds me a little bit of that just because we're young, we play really hard, we're scrappy, we're led by a phenomenal player just like we were with Isaiah (Whitehead), who was as good as any player I've ever coached. But he (Powell) has kind of done the same thing that Isaiah has. He's kind of put a whole team on his back and stayed with it, and it's a testament to him that he's an emotional kid, and he's our emotional leader. He's done a phenomenal job, just like Isaiah did."

On the confusion regarding Powell's apparent ejection:
"The confusion was the scorebook. His first foul was a flagrant-1, it wasn't a technical foul when they came over and said that's obviously his second. I thought James Breeding did a great job of going to the book and correcting it, and so I know he was a little upset after he got tossed, but I think it was more of a scorebook error than it was anything else."

On Quincy McKnight defending Markus Howard:
"Yeah, Q and our big guys have done a good job on his pick-and-rolls, trying not to let him turn the corner. Markus is a phenomenal player, can hurt you in so many different ways, you can tell just by how many times he gets to the free throw line. He uses his body great off pick-and-rolls, but Q has worked really hard, and I thought Romaro Gill was really, really good in pick-and-roll defense the second half, just using his length and being big. I think it helps when Markus is coming off pick-and-rolls, just trying to make sure he can't see, and I think we've done a good job in all three games -- after the first half of the first game -- of just being big."

On preparing for Saturday's Big East championship against Villanova:
"Hopefully we can get out of here at some point -- oh, I'm not being funny right now, was I supposed to be funny right now? Tomorrow's just all on emotion. Villanova had a tough overtime game. Right now, it's just getting back, making sure these guys have something good to eat, getting them off their phones, to be honest with you -- that's gonna be a hard part -- and tomorrow, we'll do the same thing we did today: We'll wake up and we'll prepare for a really, really good Villanova team. Again, I think one reason why this game was so chippy is the fact that we just played Marquette, and everybody just kind of knew everybody, knew what they were doing, and I think it's the same thing with 'Nova: We kind of know what we have to do, and they know what they have to do against us, so I'm looking forward to it."

Powell on his range of emotions:
"It was crazy, just to be able to get called back into the game, I was happy. I felt like I let my teammates down, so them giving me a second chance, I really appreciate it. It's all a blessing. Coach just said, 'come back out,' and once I heard that, I started wiping my tears. I'm like, 'Come back out?' And I just ran back out. I was just happy that they gave me a second chance."