One of our biggest nightmares came true. Size is something we didn't like to see an we didn't like to see and we knew going in we'd have our hands full. |
One of our biggest nightmares came true. Size isn't something we like to see. |
Quite honestly, this is exactly what we told the kids was going to happen. We knew kids that were in the third grade when this happened probably weren't going to be punished. We had great confidence in that. It would have been a devastating blow had it gone the other way. |
Ron Lewis is one of the greatest teammates I have ever seen. He's always picking guys up, he's always talking the game and that sort of thing, so I think guys like to see him do well, it does uplift us a little bit. |
That was huge. To step up and knock that down from where he did. |
That was one of the toughest games I've ever been involved in. It was a game of crazy plays and, fortunately, we got the last crack at it. |
That was probably the lift we needed. In both of our games against Michigan, our bench has been the biggest difference. |
That's a credit to them. |
That's a tremendous blow for them. He had 14 (points) and 11 (rebounds) on us in Game 1. The biggest thing it did was disrupt their offense a little bit with him not being out there. |
That's one of the toughest games I've ever been involved in. |
That's one of the toughest games I've ever been involved in. Obviously we're elated to be co-champs, but we have one more Big Ten game. |
That's the thing with Wisconsin. They've got their pieces to the puzzle and they've got a great basketball team because of that. |
That's what we told them all along. Today is a great day for us because it's the first day in 18 or 19 months that we actually know where we're at. |
That's why we're going to have a long talk tomorrow because I want him to define that for me. I don't know what that is. But I'm looking forward to hearing his explanation. I'm sure Matt has a great one for me. |
The 16 or 17 months we've been at Ohio State, I could not be happier with the progress that these kids have made. Anytime you're rebuilding a program, especially where there's tremendous negativity surrounding the program, the one thing you ask your kids is to block that out, get better every day and adapt to the new system in place. |