Drew Neitzel
Drew Neitzel
Drew Neitzelis a former American professional basketball player...
hurts lose race ten win
You never want to lose to your rival. It hurts. But more importantly, it hurts in the Big Ten race. We're going to have to win out to have a chance.
coming key stay stretch
They're going to be coming in here confident. This is a key stretch for us now, and we've just got to stay consistent.
behind chance coming good life march rough ten winning
It was a rough Big Ten season. We had to put that behind us. I think we got new life coming into March madness. We still got that confidence. We feel we have just as good a chance of winning as anybody.
easy fighting fights-and-fighting kept knew pull
It would have been really easy for us to get frustrated. We kept fighting through it. We knew we could pull it out because we've done it before.
anybody reality ten
Anybody can say this is just another Big Ten game. But in reality, it's not.
easy
Offensively, we never really got anything going. Everything we got, we had to earn. We didn't get any easy baskets.
brown loose shutting
Shutting down Dee Brown was huge. We trailed him all night. We never wanted him to get loose on us.
bigger glue guy matt people plays role team
Matt plays a bigger role on our team than most people realize. He's the glue guy for us.
behind build coach confidence couple days game good high job took tough trying
My confidence is high right now, I just keep trying to build from game to game. It was tough for a couple days (after that loss), but coach did a good job of getting it behind us. It took a lot out of us.
business care game great played preparing record start teams
We don't know much about them, but they've played pretty much everybody, all the great teams around the country. Their record really doesn't tell what they are. We got to take care of business in that game and start preparing for the Big Ten.
bad defense forced tried
The defense was scrambling. I probably forced it. I just tried to make a play. It was a bad decision. Anything would have been better in that situation.
crazier
It ain't over by any stretch. Crazier things have happened.
consistent shooting team tonight year
I think it's kind of a fluke, it's never really happened. We've been a pretty consistent free-throw shooting team all year and tonight they just didn't fall.
bit coaching difference good job
I think the coaching staff's been doing a good job getting us a little bit more of a break, so I think that's going to make a big difference this weekend.