“We have to go in there and be tough. Playing an IU team you have to be mentally tough. Those guys play really hard and they take pride in playing at home. We have to go in there and be tough, execute and value the ball.”
“That's what we need from Courtney. Especially when teams try to take him out of the game by double-teaming him. He has to find other ways to be a factor.”
“We have a lot of talent on the perimeter to be able to withstand a blow like that, but any time you're without Lester, with his toughness and his drive and his competitiveness, it's going to hurt.”
“I wanted to be aggressive. I have talked with (assistant) coach ( Mike ) Jackson about being aggressive for 40 minutes. And that's what I tried to do.”
“We have a better team than we did then. We have a better chance of doing some of the things that we want to do. When we were freshmen, we were just playing well at the time, and we wanted to ride it as long as we could. Now we have a team that can continue to play well and continue to compete for the championship.”
“Coach asked me to be our best worker and best player a long time ago. I've done my best to try and be that. These guys have really bought into practicing hard every day. That's not something we've always done.”
“We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.”
