87 ordspråk av Marshall Strickland
Marshall Strickland
[Now] everybody knows coach Davis is leaving, so we don't have that extra distraction.
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All of the fans were excited, but we expected to win. We are No. 11 in the country (in the USA Today/ESPN poll as opposed to No. 13 in The Associated Press poll) and we feel like we are a top five team.
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As a team we've grown closer. We're having fun together. We're having fun within the game. That's important at this point.
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Coach Marsh has really been on us a lot the last couple of weeks. That's carried over to the games.
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Guys played with their hearts and people forgot how tired they were.
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He really hit his rhythm. He started getting to the basket. He's tough to stop once he gets in a zone like that.
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He's a guy who just needs to get in his rhythm. He's a rhythm player, and once he gets in his rhythm he starts making really great plays.
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I feel like he really helped me grow up. I came here young, fresh out of high school and he really tested me.
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I felt like I was in high school again -- just going through the lane, being athletic and finishing.
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I figured I was going to keep going at them, keep being aggressive. They beat us up underneath the basket ... and we were just trying to fight them. I think we won the battle tonight.
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I had set a screen on him earlier and he plowed right over me. So I felt if he did it again, I was going down. I knew he'd try and body me down.
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I have a lot of confidence in my team. I think we can win the Big Ten. We're playing really well right now, and we're getting better. That's the scary part -- we're improving every game.
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I hurt my shoulder pretty good. I'm still questionable right now. I got a couple more hours of rest, so we'll so how it goes.
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I know they're not going to leave me, because if they do I'll make them pay. Hopefully I'll be able to free up some of the other guys on the court.
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I think it's been really important. As a team, we feel closer. We have fun together and we have fun with the game, and I think that's a key at this point.
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