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Seton Hall 68, Georgetown 66
Post-Game Quotes
Feb. 4, 2017

Head Coach John Thompson III

On the biggest factor in the loss….
I don't know what the biggest factor is. Clearly, 1-for-19 is not good. We've got some guys, when you're not shooting the ball well, you have to do other things, not just dwell on that 3-point shooting. But clearly, 1-for-19 plays a part in it.

On next-to-last possession and not calling a timeout…
We didn't call a timeout but we went to a dribble exchange. Akoy sent an on-ball and had Peak opposite. Sometimes a player just has to make a play. I didn't want to go against a set defense and we have some things that we know that we look for. He stumbles, fumbles the ball, but him coming off and playing on the same side as L.J. is what we wanted to get to and what we got. …Probably should have kicked it to L.J., but he lost the ball.

On Seton Hall's Angel Delgado….
He's good. That's the ultimate challenge. He's good, he's persistent. We were doubling him and he passes out of it, he's poised down there. He plays with a relentlessness that makes him good. He goes and gets it, he goes and gets it and just keeps coming and coming and coming, he doesn't' care if he's doubled.

On Akoy Agau's energy and effort….
He always plays with a lot of energy and plays hard and plays with a lot of effort, but he was able to come up with some today.

Georgetown Junior Forward Akoy Agau

What it came down to in the end …
We just needed a stop at the end - one thing we were kind of struggling with all game. I think we did a pretty good job of getting the stops, but then it was getting the rebound at the end to complete the whole stop. We just let them get too many offensive rebounds and that really hurt us. Just looking at [the stats], we lost the rebounding margin at the end of the game and that is something that is going to hurt us all year.

On adjusting to a more physical game …
I thought it was definitely physical, but I think we held our own. We made some mistakes that we will have to go back and look at - watch film and fix and move on. I think we were right there but there are just a couple of things that we did wrong at the end that cost us the game. So just going back and looking at those things and fixing it.

Seton Hall Head Coach Kevin Willard

On winning a back and forth game …
"Four of our six road games have been overtime, two buzzer beaters and another overtime. I think it's a matter of the biggest difference being that we got consecutive stops down the stretch which we haven't been able to do in other road games. For the most part I thought we defended really well down the stretch.

On getting Delgado into good positions offensively …
It's not easy with the attention that he's getting right now. I think that he's doing a phenomenal job of working it inside out and kicking the basketball out, which I think is going to make it harder. Guys are going to have to make the decision if they're going to come get him because he's passing the ball so well. He's working extremely hard on the rebounding, he knows we need him and he's doing a phenomenal job.

On L.J Peak's Performance …
I've seen him too much now. I think L.J. is really good. I always thought he was more of a scorer, so load the box up when he gets it because he's not passing it and I think now the difference is that I think of L.J. Peak as almost a point guard now because of the way he gets other guys shots. The way he carries himself on the court, the way he talks to his teammates, he looks and acts like a leader. I think he plays like a leader and has developed into a really good high level guard.