They are a great team. We're going to have to go in there and steal one. But to win the Big Ten, you have to go on the road and win some big games.
You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonight, we didn't give up.
They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We just played a lot harder when we were playing well.
It's just a new thing every day. I hurt my hand three weeks ago and had it X-rayed. Then I got it hit in the game (Saturday) and it swelled up again. I can't really bend it.
We know the feeling of having lost at home. That's the type of pride Dee and I try to take into every game. The other guys have done a great job feeding off of us and kind of understanding it. It's a bad feeling to lose at home, and we hope they never have to.
We are going to need a little help. We need Ohio State to lose but I hope (we can repeat). I need another ring.
I like playing against them and we just went through their stuff and practiced for what they do. So we should be able to get ready in a hurry.
Coach has been on us. But the guys have been taking it pretty good. When you're winning, you kind of get cocky. You're like, 'Let's keep doing what we're doing.' Now people are more excited to learn. A lot of people are listening.
I thought we did a great job on him. All he shot was a lot of free throws. He's a great player, but we took him out of his game for the most part except for the free throws. I guess he did a good job of getting in there and drawing the fouls.
I thought it was just spoiled mustard.
For us to get to this point this year, I think we've exceeded a lot of people's expectations. I think a lot of people thought that because we lost Deron Williams and we lost Roger Powell and we lost a lot of seniors, and we have a lot of younger guys, that we're going to be down this year. They thought we weren't going to be very good, but we exceeded expectations.
I thought we were going to come back and win it. You've always got to have confidence.
We were hoping for a two, maybe a three seed. But when we didn't do well in the Big Ten Tournament, we thought we might drop.
Being more active takes a lot of the pressure off Dee. He's been carrying us lately. I wanted to come out with energy and hit the boards. I didn't play well the first time against them.
Every game is going to be a battle and you have to play 100 percent every time. I think the young guys are starting to realize that.
It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I've been riding a bike, lifting and doing treatment to get stronger. I have no clue when I'll be back but hopefully within the next two weeks. I just need time, then I need to get back into shape.
It's not a very good feeling. If it happens one more time, we're going home for the rest of the year.
This shows we're making progress. This is one of the first times we put a team away. Maybe Oregon. But we really made a statement that we want to get better. And we are.
They sprang it on us and it obviously worked. I think they were in kind of a weird zone. There were times when they were in a 1-3-1, it looked like, and times they were in a 2-3. They did everything they needed to do to stay in the game.
A lot of it has to do with using a lot of energy, and teams kind of figure out what we're doing. Today we did a good job. A lot of it has to do with letting our offense dictate our defense. We didn't let that happen too much. We missed shots and still got back on defense.
I'm disappointed and surprised, because you'd think people would have been ready to play. We played lackadaisically in the first half, and that's not acceptable. After the Penn State game, it is hard to grasp that we came out casual today.
I get it all the time. Even when I'm not in foul trouble, I hear about it.
It's frustrating because you want to be out there. But you have to trust your teammates.
We're going to look awful on the film. You feel like you played well during the game and then you go watch the film. It's about an hour long, and Coach is stopping it every 10 seconds.
That's fine. It's easy for us. We watch the same film and maybe the (last) game to see what we did right and wrong. The scouting report is the same. So it's easier on the coaches and easier on us.
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