Hopefully, they can finish here during the last five weeks. Because it's been a special year, thus far. |
Hopefully, we'll have a couple new hires here within the week or so. |
I appreciate that from the media standpoint, especially our local media. I think it would have really been taking away from what our young men are doing. |
I can't control that. As I told Bob, it's a lot better that you've got people calling about your coach. That means your coach is getting attention other places. That doesn't mean your coach is leaving. I never talked to anyone in an official capacity at Missouri or Indiana. |
I challenged Bru as much as I have ever challenged him at halftime. A first team all-league choice doesn't come in at the half with no rebounds and no field goals. He responded. |
I couldn't be more happy or pleased for our seniors to go out this way. |
I do think that's why Bru has a lot of good footwork today. He had guard footwork, and now he's kind of grown into those feet and become a power forward. |
I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed by their home crowd. |
I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed from the home crowd, that's never something that is positive. As far as me getting cheers, that's happened for a long time there...that's my alma mater, that's where I played, I won a national championship there. |
I hope it's because our guys keep getting better. We've had a trend here (where) we keep getting better later in the year. That's a good trend. |
I just kept trying to write 'Poise' and 'Confidence' and 'Toughness' on the board. It's not like we're going to set plays up at the end of the game. We know they're fouling. |
I just thought they exploited us every way we could be exploited. We seemed to be a step behind. They're quick and athletic, and we just seemed to not have quite the energy level that we hoped to have. |
I knew when we met in Chicago (for media day). I thought we were going to be pretty good because we're healthy, and I thought Michigan, with everybody coming back, they'd be one of the top teams in the league. Both of us have done a nice job at the midpoint. I'm not surprised at all. |
I know Jeff was very much in pain. But he was phenomenal in the second half. |
I never felt like we were in it. They are very good at the start of each half, that's their staple. We weren't very good, and they were awfully good and they're tough to beat here when they play that way. |