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Villanova Head Coach Jay Wright

Opening Statement

"They looked like we did in the last game and we looked like they did. Hopefully next will be a one-point margin. I was really proud of our defense and Dylan (Ennis) continues to do a great job leading us defensively and Darrun (Hilliard) has been one of our great leaders all year as a senior. Overall I was proud of the effort and our defense. We were sloppy offensively but we can get better there. I am happy with the defense."

On special preparation for the game against Georgetown

"We looked at the tapes from last game as a staff and we decided that we were so bad as a team that we couldn't tell if it was our (preparation) of if we were that bad as a team. We just were not doing any of the things we do so we basically had the same game plan except we played harder and better."

On keeping the Georgetown offense out of the lane

"As a team they do a great job of getting to the rim and getting to the foul line. In the end you could see them starting to get to the basket and you could see we were starting to get more concerned with not giving up leads because we got more concerned about them getting threes. When you develop such a lead like that you know the only way a team makes it back is through threes so we didn't want to give it to them so they went to the rim."

On the Villanova offensive start

"Defensively, we started out with great intensity. We weren't great offensively in the beginning nor were we in the last game but defensively we were bad in the last game. I thought during this game we were really focused, we created turnovers and got some easy baskets off those turnovers which kind of loosened up their defense."

On preparation for two back-to-back road games

"We will just try and get better, we will be off tomorrow so we will start getting better on Monday, at some of the things we want to do better defensively. While we have been excelling defensively we seem to be slipping on offense and our turnovers were outrageous today but we will work on it. We hope at the end of the season we are as good as we can possibly be both offensively and defensively."

On the Georgetown vs. Villanova rivalry

"The Georgetown-Villanova rivalry is as healthy as you can get. We have a great history and great respect for each other but we are far enough from each other that we don't get on each others nerves; its not like we are in the same city. It is a great rivalry, when you loose to them our fans don't like it but they have so much respect for them that it isn't the end of the world. When we beat them it's the same way. There is no animosity. It is a really healthy rivalry; we like when they are good. When they come here, its twenty thousand fans in the arena and it has always been like that. It doesn't matter where each of us are in the standings; it is always a good rivalry. This is what college basketball is all about."

On if there was "revenge" factor in the game against Georgetown

"We really don't do that. We want to make sure we don't do that because if we are relying on revenge what will do on Wednesday when we play Providence and I have to create some sort of 'revenge'. I am not good at that and I want our guys to learn that what should motivate us the most is playing for each other. That is what I was really proud about our guys (today). This is the way they have practice and this is how it has been built to this point. These guys have practiced really hard and have paid great attention to detail defensively and I feel really good about it.

On the 20 Villanova turnovers and converting 24 points off Georgetown turnovers "

"That is the million dollar question today ââ'¬Â¦ I do not know how that happened. The turnovers were crazy. Some were just so crazy that they weren't a trap, get out in the pass lane, get out on the break turnovers; they were get in the inside, pivoting somewhere crazy and I think Georgetown was as shocked as we were. It didn't hurt us that bad ââ'¬Â¦ They were all down around the baseline, they weren't out in the open floor. There were lots of travel and dead ball turnovers. It was bizarre."

Darrun Hilliard

On motivation to beat Georgetown

"We don't look at it as revenge or anything like that. We just take it as our next game. We just want to be better than we were in the previous game. We don't really look at it as they beat us by 20. We just look and see how we're doing as a team and we go from there. We're just a group of guys who are confident in ourselves as a team and individually. We just want to be better than we were yesterday and that's the approach we took."

On Georgetown rivalry

"It's been great. Georgetown is a great team with a lot of history. They have great players and great coaches. It's just an honor to play a great team like that. Hopefully we see them again. It's great to share the court with those kind of guys."

Dylan Ennis

On drive and kick game

"We do that everyday in practice, getting in the lane. The big guys make themselves available. It isn't anything different for us. We do it so much that it's second nature to us. We know they are big and athletic and we have to slow down a little bit when we get in there."

On whether first game against Georgetown was on his mind

"Not at all. They came out real aggressive last game. What we wanted to do was set the tone. The difference in this game was that we took it personal to set the tone defensively. We hit our shots, but when we play with that defensive intensity we hit our stride."

Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III

On Villanova's defenseââ'¬Â¦

"They did a good job chasing us off the line. We did a poor job looking for our second, third and fourth options. We would just come down and break off the offense, But they did a good job. They were very aggressive with their switches, as they always are. And we didn't have that many open looks."

On Georgetown taking quick shots and not looking for offensive opportunitiesââ'¬Â¦

"When you play a good defensive team, like they are, a team with their size and ability to switch everything, you are not going to get one pass, two pass, open look. You have to have the discipline to stay with what you're doing, executing and hopefully something will open up later. But we definitely, without a doubt, were not disciplined enough on the offensive end. Taking two passes and then a bad shot is how you are going to beat that team."

On Villanova's defensive execution between the two gamesââ'¬Â¦

"They were a little better today, no doubt about that, that they were better today. A large part though is that they were making shots; in the first game they were missing shots. I think their energy may have weaned in the first game. They were hitting shots todays and that gives you courage on the other end."

On if this is a game you just forget about and move on to the next oneââ'¬Â¦

"No. We are going to talk about it on the ride down 95 here."

On comparable between the two matchups against Villanovaââ'¬Â¦

"We have to play better if you want to beat this team tonight."

On Georgetown's competition level throughout the gameââ'¬Â¦

"I think we kept competing. Our execution didn't get much better. But we competed until the very end. They jumped out on us. It was almost reverse; they jumped out on us like we jumped out on them. Against good team, you can't get down that big."