St. John’s Assistant Coach Mike Dunlap
On matching up against No. 1/1 Kentucky:
“We’re still in a phase of teaching our system so the focus is more on us than it is on our opponent. We have great respect for all of our opponents, but the fact is: we haven’t had a true road game yet this season. There’s a lot of firsts with this matchup. Like Coach Lavin reiterates, we have to keep our focus and temperament where it belongs – and that’s on improvement. If we do that, we’ll be fine. At this point, as far as dealing with the scouting report and individual Kentucky players, our group can’t handle all that information just yet. Too much information will slow them down. Instead, we’ve put the focus on improving each day. But we won’t be satisfied with playing a strong game and losing by 15 points – that’s not in our personalities. We’re an aggressive team. We’re going in with an attitude of: we’re going to go down there and see if we can do something special.”