It feels good when people recognize the efforts that we're working for, but at the same time it's not something I say, that I want to be Big Ten player of the week. I just go out there and play and try to win and whatever happens happens. |
It hurt, but I've sprained my ankle like that, I've stepped on people's feet a lot of times playing. It didn't hurt as bad as it did in the past. |
It was nice and quiet. I just took it easy. |
It was tough to practice the day after we found out that we didn't make it the NCAA Tournament. But as we practiced and practiced, though, guys' spirits got up and we were just happy to be able to wear this jersey again and to be able to compete. |
It's a different feeling because we had to overcome a lot of things. |
It's going to be another tough game. They're another team that's probably as athletic as we are, and they have really good guards, too, so we'll have to come out ready to play. |
It's going to be tough. Lester's one of our better players, but at the same time with the lineup changes we're going to make if he doesn't play, we're going to be fine. We have a lot of talent on the perimeter to withstand a blow like that, but without Lester and his talent, drive and competitiveness, it's going to hurt. |
It's guys in there we know who have been through it before, who have worked hard every day for four years. We have each other's backs out there. It's not that we don't know that with the other guys, but you feel it a little more when it's a guy you've been on campus with since Day One. |
It's hard to think about after having lost, but we will make the most out of it. We have to be prepared and since we are not on any committees, we will just have to wait and see. |
It's not going to snowball. These guys in this locker room won't let that happen and neither will our coaches. We've lost worst than this before. We'll be ready for Ohio State (Thursday). |
It's tough to put it into words, but I know we battled, we battled as a team. The one thing I do know is that despite losing tonight, after everything we've been through as a program, no matter what people say and no matter what people do, this program is going to continue to move forward. I feel that in my heart. |
Lester was big - he's one of our best offensive guys. Today he was aggressive and finishing, so that gave us a big boost. |
No matter what happens, I feel that in my heart, that this is a great program. We're going to be -- it's hard to put into words, man. It's tough, but we are going to bounce back. |
People were expecting a lot of things from this team, and they don't realize, before we got here, they were winning 11 games and facing NCAA sanctions. They wanted national championship success right away, and we knew it wasn't going to be like that. It was going to be a long grind and process. We've done that really well, to the point where we expect to win. |
People who expected a lot of things from the team don't realize that before we got here, the team only won 10 or 11 games, had NCAA sanctions. And people wanted national championship success right away. We knew it wasn't going to be like that. We knew it was going to be a long grind and a process. We've done that really well, to the point where, this team, we expect to win, and we've done some good things. It's been a great ride. |