I never once had a conversation with the A.D. at Missouri. But it gets reported that way and it just gets blown up and goes from there. There was no contact on my part with Indiana. Obviously that's my alma mater, and if they wanted to talk I would have at least listened out of my respect for my alma mater. |
I put that game behind me. I don't remember a lot about it. I'd rather talk about Syracuse (the game Indiana won to claim the national championship in 1987). |
I really think it came down to our inability to keep them off the offensive glass. |
I think guys are getting more confident. We're shooting the ball better, yet the defense has stayed pretty consistent. We always felt like we could go to another level as a team if our shooting would all of a sudden kick in. |
I think he was mad at me for the four minutes he sat. But he practices this hard. You should have seen Monday's practice; he was on the floor right away. A lot of other guys would have been hesitant with the injury that he had. But he was ready to play the Drake game. That's just who Jeff is. |
I think he'll be okay. We can get him a lot of rest heading into the weekend. Hopefully he'll be okay. |
I think it's great. You never like to lose. But I think because of the loss, the guys know what they have to do. There is more sense of an urgency. They've been unified the whole time. But I sense more excitement and enthusiasm over the weekend than any kind of pressure. |
I think some people would say the numbers are the same. But with the casinos, we're fighting a trend and everyone else is going down, ... The fact is, we're not going down. Our people do go to the casinos, but they don't go up there every day. |
I think the guys are excited about what they've done. |
I think the majority of Big Ten teams all think they're going to be a little better this year. It's unusual to have that many teams thinking that at this time of year. We're really going to have a highly competitive race. |
I think the majority of the players who leave early aren't successful. You have more failure stories than success stories with that, but that's the nature of our game right now. |
I think the team read me. |
I think there are some things that you feel personally, from a family standpoint, that when it hits the public it runs a whole different avenue. And it gets out there in ways that shouldn't even be out there. I'd just as soon keep the whole thing personal. |
I think we are a better defending team. I still think we have a long way to go and we have done a lot of improvement in that area. That is exciting because I think we have done a pretty good job through 17 games. All-in-all it has been a great team effort in the defensive end. |
I think we came here as a four seed, maybe a five, but what we did this weekend picked us up. |