I’m glad it’s over. I wanted to go into Michigan State not having to answer questions about it. I’ll be happy about it when I leave, but for now we have more important things to...

Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It’s nice, but the win is more important.

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...

I thought we were going to come back and win it. You’ve always got to have confidence.

We obviously want to be Big Ten champs, and we want to go into the (NCAA) Tournament with the highest seed. We want to be the best team we can possibly be, and make a...

It’s a nice place for the families to go. We’re just going to play basketball. I know if we were playing on Mars, our parents would have come anyway.

I’m just going to try to enjoy the ride I’ve had playing with Dee, the coaches and the team. That’s what’s going to make me happy right now, thinking about the run I’ve had here.

We have to step it up that extra notch and play hard.

Dee was hitting everything. We had confidence in him and he took care of the business.

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.

He’s expanding his game. He’s been working hard in practice. He tries stuff he’s not been able to do in a couple years.

We looked at the scoreboard and knew we had to pick it up. We took (their run) and then kind of bounced back.

The young guys are seeing it’s going to get harder and harder as we go on. This is a good learning experience. But if we play like we did [against Michigan], we’re going to get...

We just have to get ready to play Thursday. None of the records matter anymore. No one will remember if you won your conference or your conference tournament. It’s all how you finish. That how...

Hopefully they’ll be able to keep going and the program will get better. Coach Weber does a great job of recruiting and a great job developing players. They have a good base with a majority...

He played great. He made the big play. He did what seniors are supposed to do.

Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it’s a different setting. You hit one shot, and the crowd gets into it.

Last year, there was a little more pressure. We’re more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four.

Once he starts hitting, you just set screens for him and he does the rest. When he hits a big shot, he gets that swagger and you just know it’s gonna happen.

We have to win it to stay in the running. We’ve been making steps. Hopefully, we can go to Wisconsin and pull it off and play the same way we do here.

I think we played harder. That’s why we were able to get back into it. But we had more game to play. We had to keep playing.

I thought it was just spoiled mustard.

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.

He was all over me. Once I met Dee, I was pretty locked into Illinois.

He’s the same size as Roger, and he’s a little quicker. He’s amazing. He has a tremendous vertical jump. He can jump out of the gym. He’s up there with Brian in jumping ability.

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.

It made me angry for [the referee] to make a call like that.

The coaching staff did a good job with the scouting report. They handed out the tape and I watched a couple of times. We knew a lot of his shots would be 3-pointers. We tried...

I get it all the time. Even when I’m not in foul trouble, I hear about it.

Last year [in St. Louis], we had a practice with 30,000 people. We had a select few today. But we never look much at the crowd anyway.

You want to be happy with the win. But we’re going to Indiana [on Tuesday]. If we play like this, we’re going to get beat. We’re going to have to play better at Indiana.

That’d be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night.

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...

They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They’ll have a lottery pick coming off their bench. They’re obviously more talented.

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.

Some of the players on our team have never lost at home. Dee (Brown) and I have only lost once, and that was a pretty bad feeling. It gives us motivation to win.

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...

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...

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.

To break the record at home on Senior Night, that would be the best.

I think we just looked at the scoreboard and knew we had to step it up a little bit. One thing led to another, and everybody kind of fed off of one another.

Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win’s more important.

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...

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’s more of what our season this year had. I think last year is in the past. You don’t really think about it too much. I think we’re more focused on (The fact) we lost...

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

We just have to find out where we stand on Sunday and get back to practice. If we lose one more game, we go home for good, and Dee’s and my career is over.

I never get nervous for games. I don’t know why, but I couldn’t calm down. I was even sitting on the bench with two fouls being nervous.

We were a little lackadaisical on defense at first, but winning by 24 points is pretty good.

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...