By Paul Schmidt
“I’m so proud of the two guys next to me. And I’m happy for Tubby, because they deserved to win. He played — we’ve had some tough games, and we’ve won a lot of those. And I think it proves they’re a tournament team, and I hope they’re in the tournament now because of maybe what they did, and then we’ll get something out of this loss. We just didn’t play very well. We didn’t shoot the ball very well, and we really struggled to defend the first half.
“Give them credit, the second half we started pounding it inside a little bit more and we defended a lot better. We found some lineups. But in fairness to our 18-of-34 from the line, that’s never happened, it’s my fault because I ran these guys into the ground. We don’t do what Ohio State does. Give them credit. I played Kalin and these two guys just stretches that they were so tired by the end, they missed some free throws. But the effort was there from them, and that’s really all I care about right now, and we’ll move forward.”