It feels good. Jeez, it's like lifting some weights up off your back. |
It was a burden a lot of players put on their shoulders that they had to do certain things. That's just hard. After losing those guys, we knew it would be tough given the numbers that we had playing against other teams that were as experienced or more experienced and had four or five seniors. We knew it was going to be a tough battle and we just wanted to stick it out. |
It was his day. He even said he kind of got emotional. You could tell he got emotional coming out of the game, and even before the game started. It's great to see that. |
It's all about defense. Defense is ultimately going to win the game. |
It's always bad when you have to lose guys. Him being my best friend, it's really hard to see him have to hang up his jersey. He has a great career ahead of him. |
It's great to be named All-Big Ten, it's a wonderful honor. It's all thanks to my team, because if it wasn't for my teammates I wouldn't get any accolades. It's not an individual award, it's a team award. |
It's just a great feeling, and it's just a shame every player doesn't get to experience this. |
It's only just begun. I don't want the guys to start thinking we're going to walk into games and get victories. The madness is just starting. |
It's tough when you lose two guys who gave you a lot of productive minutes. |
Once the week started, we were past it. That's what we had to prepare ourselves mentally for. |
So I see a lot that we have to offer and a lot that we can do and accomplish but it has to be for 40 minutes. |
Stay poised. We knew they were going to get up. We just figured if we stick together, keep running our offense and don't get rattled, we could still come out with a win. |
That has to be the worst shooting performance that I've ever seen. |
That's how you win games - if you're attacking, aggressive. That was a big concentration coming into the game. |
That's how you win games, if you attack and you're aggressive. The Northwestern game, we watched that and saw where we had a lot of opportunities where we could (have) and we didn't attack. |