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Postgame Quotes: Indiana vs. Ohio State
2/23/2018 11:48:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Indiana vs. Ohio State
February 23, 2018
Postgame Quotes
Indiana Head Coach Archie Miller
Opening Statement
Obviously heck of a night. Heck of a game. Two teams really battled. We came up short. Really disappointed for our fans and our seniors, in particular.
With that type of environment, you just hope they get an opportunity to close one out. Thought we did enough there at the end, 50/50 plays, we were right there and just a breakdown at the end to not be able to contest or be there on the shot.
Probably stopped the ball a little too deep. And I haven't seen the film yet to see what we could have done better. That's a special situation type of thing as a coach that will haunt you for a long time; that with no timeouts, or a made basket coming down full speed, you weren't organized or weren't able to get the spot, looked like a broken play.
But credit him in making a great shot. And they've had a heck of a season. I think that for us we've really improved coming down here through the home stretch.
We're playing pretty good basketball as a group, and I'm proud of our effort tonight.
Q. You guys have played some big teams here, Ohio State. Michigan State, battled to the wire. How do you use that with the players going into the Big Ten Conference?
COACH MILLER: I think on a neutral floor it's about energy, it's about confidence, it's about wanting to play, wanting to be there.
And I think our team will be that way. We haven't changed all season long, whether it's up or down or a team -- we've lost -- they've always been able to come right back to practice and take what we're trying to do and get better. And I think that's what we've done.
But we've been in some really, really tough games. A lot of them in here that we weren't able to close, something that's going to eat at you in the offseason, when it's all said and done.
But I think our guys are excited. And they'll be happy to get to New York, having another opportunity to play.
Q. You touched on it a little bit during senior night about these five seniors and how appreciative you are that they bought in to what you guys were doing. How much has that played a role in your first year as a head coach and how much have they helped and bought into what you --
COACH MILLER: They've been a great group from day one on campus until right now. They've been unbelievably coachable. They go to work every single day. All of them had some moments where they've had some downs and they never went away from it.
Sometimes when you lose some games early in the season, guys can listen to the outside clutter and sort of fight the process. Those guys are all about helping the process continue to go.
Our improvement as a team, our ability to compete, our defensive numbers, getting better offensively throughout the course of the season, has really contributed to a group that's been all in.
And it starts with your older guys. And those guys have been studs. Rob's been an absolute stud for us all year. I think the other guys, Josh or Collin, have had their moments where they've all been there.
But they care a lot about one another and they're very coachable and they've given us a chance to play pretty good basketball here down the stretch.
Q. I know he's not a senior, but we've asked about Juwan a lot of different ways this season. You talked about him even as far back as spring or summer, about a guy that could thrive in your system. At what point did you look at him as being a guy as a leading man, a guy you would look into for key positions and big buckets?
COACH MILLER: I think in December. Once we were in December, if you saw us start to play the higher-level competition at Michigan, at Louisville -- trying to think -- just Notre Dame. Starting looking in December, he was playing some really good basketball and you start to say we can really play through him.
When the injury happened to De'Ron, it shuffled our team a little bit. And we had to figure out how to play through him in different ways with different players around him. And he's continued to do a really great job.
He's given everything he has. He's probably running on fumes right now here at the end, the amount of minutes he's played, what we've asked him to do defensively and offensively.
He's had a great year. I hope he's rewarded for that in the next couple of weeks because he's earned obviously an All-Big Ten player. If there's a guy that's more valuable to their team than he is to ours, that's going to be debatable there.
Q. Bates-Diop had 24 points, took him 24 shots, what did you guys do well?
COACH MILLER: I think Zach really is he's more of a guard than he's a front court player. Facing up to the basket is really a strength. He's got unbelievable length. He shoots over the top of you. But I think for the most part we did a pretty job of just trying to keep him in front and challenging everything that you possibly could.
He's a very difficult cover. I would be surprised if he's not the Big Ten Player of the Year, just what he had to do.
But we tried to make him work. But he hurt us down the stretch with a couple of post-ups which, to his credit, is starting to work around the rim.
Q. Going off that, what makes Zach such an effective defender against some of these --
COACH MILLER: One, he plays incredibly hard. You won't find a guy that's given more effort than he has. He's good at it, too. Sometimes you have to be a little bit talented.
He's got great feet. He is a little bit longer than you give him credit for. And he plays extremely hard. It's a good combination of a guy that believes in himself. He believes in it. He plays hard. He doesn't back down. And he's really added a different dimension to our team this season. We've really counted on him.
Q. The fact that you played Purdue, Michigan State, Ohio State here down the stretch, really tough. Does that give your guys some belief heading out east?
COACH MILLER: I think so. I think our guys -- I don't care who we play or when we play them. Especially on a neutral site, we should have great confidence that we can do some stuff. And I think we're playing extremely hard. And when you win one game, if you're able to win one, feels like a million dollars, you get a lot of confidence. That's something we look forward to. We really want to stay in New York a little bit longer than anticipated.
Q. With Justin's contributions over the last four or five games, how valuable has that been not only over that stretch, but how valuable is it for your team heading into the postseason with a young guy playing as well as he is?
COACH MILLER: He's probably playing career-best basketball for him. He's had double figures in a lot of games.
I think you're seeing a guy with a lot more confidence, physical around the basket. I mentioned he's playing tougher on both ends of the floor. He had some moments tonight where he had a hard time guarding Tate.
But as a freshman versus a senior, you hope one day you look down the line and he's able to do that to somebody. But he's building confidence that in the offseason that he should go into the offseason ready and motivated. And I think he can obviously be a game-changer as a sophomore with the amount of experience he's got.
Q. Josh started the second half and down the stretch there point guard, what did you like from him?
COACH MILLER: He was solid. Six assists, one turnover. Thought he played really hard defensively. He was engaged in the game. He did everything in his power to help us in this one. He was the most solid guy out there with the ball. So we kept him in.
Q. For Josh, especially, is it important to get a performance like that from him heading into the Big Ten Tournament?
COACH MILLER: I think that our team has really -- we've got a couple guys playing well. When we step up, get another guard in there that's playing well, we're a little bit harder to play against.
And I think he gave us some really good bursts tonight, he and Rob, and if you add in Justin and Juwan, those guys -- that's why we were able to score, I guess, 78 points or whatever it was. Overtime. Obviously two overtimes. But we were able to score in the second half because of those guys.
Indiana Players
Juwan Morgan, Justin Smith, Robert Johnson
Q. I know it's senior night but for either Juwan or Rob, Justin, I think it's like four or five straight games now, it seems like the energy he's given you around the rim, the points, how much have you seen him grow in the last few weeks I guess?
JUWAN MORGAN: I've seen him grow a lot. It translates from practice. He's finishing really well, focusing more getting to the rim and putting it in the basket. We used to call him a practice dunker because he could always dunk it hard in practice but he never was trying to dunk on anybody in the games. And now he's attacking the rim with that kind of aggressiveness.
Q. You had a hard-fought game, but to see it end like that in the final seconds how tough is that for you guys to watch that?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think it's really tough, especially, you know, with it being two overtimes and it coming down to that. We have the lead, what seemed like -- he put up what seemed like a tough shot for it to go in. Kind of stung a little bit, but at the end of the day I'm proud of the way we fought all the way to the end.
Q. Looking ahead to maybe the Big Ten Tournament, I know this is a loss, a tough loss at that, but can you carry any momentum from this game into the tournament?
JUWAN MORGAN: Definitely. As the way we've been fighting hard as a team, we have to keep that momentum going. We can't just let up. We can't take some time off and let ourselves get lackadaisical. We have to go in with the same fight we've had coming down the stretch of the season and we have to go into New York and have a fighting mentality.
Q. Robert, what do you remember about that last drive in regulation? Was the angle not right with the bank? Was It a similar type of play that led to the two free throws?
ROBERT JOHNSON: Yeah, it was pretty much the same play but, yeah, I just didn't have the type of angle that I wanted. But, yeah, both of the plays are pretty much the same.
Q. Rob, we've asked this a lot of different ways this season. You've watched it for three years. How would you describe Juwan's growth as a player, a guy who goes from reserve to being the key guy in key moments?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think he's continued to grow. Every year he's gotten better. And I think this year he really found what he was good at and stuck to it and just tried to add things to that. But always plays within himself.
And he's a great player with a lot of different weapons and things that he can do. So when you do that and stay within yourself, you're going to get good results.
Q. Robert, being a senior, had to go through a lot of changes this year, how rough has it been for you to go through all that, your final year, making all the adjustments, trying to come out and win games?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think starting off it was a little different just because it was a new coach and a new system. A lot of new faces you had to learn and new plays, new schemes and things like that.
But I think the guys have -- my teammates and I have done a good job of sticking with it throughout the season and trying to get better regardless of what point of the season we were at.
Q. 45 percent (indiscernible), last play of the game, what do you think contributed to the output?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think it's my teammates' confidence in me. I never -- they never told me to stop shooting or stop looking for me when I was open.
So I think it's a mixture of that and just taking better shots.
Q. Justin, you continued to improve as well. After you take this, going to the Big Ten Tournament, your first time in the Big Ten Tournament, without having that experience, having a good year so far, what do you take into that?
JUSTIN SMITH: I would just say keep doing what I'm doing. I'm trying to go out there, do whatever is possible to try to win.
I'm not going to go out there and just -- I'm going to go out there and play my role and then just look to my teammates for help, just ride this momentum.
Q. Juwan, you were in foul trouble throughout most of the later part of the game. How do you stay aggressive without --
JUWAN MORGAN: I guess just playing smart and using positioning and angles more so than just trying to use brute strength to get people off their spots. And I think as we went down the stretch, that proved to be better, more often than not.
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Ohio State Head Coach Chris Holtmann
Opening Statement:
"Wow, what a game. What a game. I give Indiana a lot of credit. I just give them a lot of credit. They were battling possession for possession. I don't think either team really wanted to give in. We would like to have some possessions back and I'm sure they would too. But at the end of the day, I think being able to stay with it and give ourselves a chance. Late, C.J. made a distinctive play and it is something that we practiced, but the kid deserves the credit for the shot. It was a deep three. It's been an unbelievable way to cap an unbelievable regular season."
There were nine lead changes in the last 3-4 minutes in the second overtime, what were you seeing in your guys that enabled you to keep answering when it kept looking like Indiana could get away?
"Well this team, it does have a grit to it that is necessary in a game like this, particularly on the road. I think at the end of the day, I think that's what you're trying to preach from day one, but you hope you have guys that have that to them. That have that tough inside of them that we all look at and can identify as resiliency and grit and the ability to stay with it and not let one play affect the other. And they did that. It wasn't always perfect and we put them on the line too much and we missed some shots that we probably normally make and we didn't always play as strong as we need too, defensively we weren't very good in spots. All those things we have to get better on, but we're not going to let that diminish us of this win.
How much does it mean to have a couple of bad games on the road in a couple of tough environments to grind out a win like this in one of the toughest road environments in college basketball?
"Yeah I want to point out, again I give Indiana a lot of credit. It is a tough way to lose, but they deserve a lot of credit. And their crowd was phenomenal. Phenomenal. You're right it was a very tough environment, but we expected that knowing this place and the history here. We expected that. It was phenomenal. I just think you're trying to play a little bit better and execute a little bit better.
"Listen, we struggled against Penn State. I don't think we had any competitive spirit in that one, but they deserve a lot of credit. Michigan was just better than us on that day, and we were a lot better against Michigan in terms of our competitiveness. They were just better than us on that day for sure. This one, I have to go back and look at it, I think we made some steps forward, but we have to continue to get better.
When you win a game like that to end a regular season and go into post season play, how important is it for that as opposed to if that shot didn't go down?
"Well I think the biggest thing right now even if we would have lost and said we're going in. I have lost 3 of 4 going into the NCAA tournament, the Big East tournament. We didn't win but we played well in the tournament. Then we played really well in the NCAA tournament. The biggest thing is how you're playing, how healthy are you, and what the spirit of your team is. So sometimes you can't control the way the schedule falls late, so that's the most important part. How are we playing? Win or lose, so we do have to get better in some areas, but it's nice to be able to cap off a regular season with 15 wins, unbelievable. So it's nice to be able to cap that off.
Can you let us in what is going through your head after you see C.J. come down and put that up?
"Well I'll be honest with you, you feel really happy for the kid and the team. You also recognize quite honestly, I lost like that before and its gut wrenching, so I think that there is a level of respect required in those moments because that's a hard way to lose. It's not like I was going to say all that to Archie, but that is a hard win. You just shake their hand and move on and celebrate. They battled their fannies off. My first thought was that I'm just really happy for C.J. and for our seniors. They have just told me that they had not won in here."
February 23, 2018
Postgame Quotes
Indiana Head Coach Archie Miller
Opening Statement
Obviously heck of a night. Heck of a game. Two teams really battled. We came up short. Really disappointed for our fans and our seniors, in particular.
With that type of environment, you just hope they get an opportunity to close one out. Thought we did enough there at the end, 50/50 plays, we were right there and just a breakdown at the end to not be able to contest or be there on the shot.
Probably stopped the ball a little too deep. And I haven't seen the film yet to see what we could have done better. That's a special situation type of thing as a coach that will haunt you for a long time; that with no timeouts, or a made basket coming down full speed, you weren't organized or weren't able to get the spot, looked like a broken play.
But credit him in making a great shot. And they've had a heck of a season. I think that for us we've really improved coming down here through the home stretch.
We're playing pretty good basketball as a group, and I'm proud of our effort tonight.
Q. You guys have played some big teams here, Ohio State. Michigan State, battled to the wire. How do you use that with the players going into the Big Ten Conference?
COACH MILLER: I think on a neutral floor it's about energy, it's about confidence, it's about wanting to play, wanting to be there.
And I think our team will be that way. We haven't changed all season long, whether it's up or down or a team -- we've lost -- they've always been able to come right back to practice and take what we're trying to do and get better. And I think that's what we've done.
But we've been in some really, really tough games. A lot of them in here that we weren't able to close, something that's going to eat at you in the offseason, when it's all said and done.
But I think our guys are excited. And they'll be happy to get to New York, having another opportunity to play.
Q. You touched on it a little bit during senior night about these five seniors and how appreciative you are that they bought in to what you guys were doing. How much has that played a role in your first year as a head coach and how much have they helped and bought into what you --
COACH MILLER: They've been a great group from day one on campus until right now. They've been unbelievably coachable. They go to work every single day. All of them had some moments where they've had some downs and they never went away from it.
Sometimes when you lose some games early in the season, guys can listen to the outside clutter and sort of fight the process. Those guys are all about helping the process continue to go.
Our improvement as a team, our ability to compete, our defensive numbers, getting better offensively throughout the course of the season, has really contributed to a group that's been all in.
And it starts with your older guys. And those guys have been studs. Rob's been an absolute stud for us all year. I think the other guys, Josh or Collin, have had their moments where they've all been there.
But they care a lot about one another and they're very coachable and they've given us a chance to play pretty good basketball here down the stretch.
Q. I know he's not a senior, but we've asked about Juwan a lot of different ways this season. You talked about him even as far back as spring or summer, about a guy that could thrive in your system. At what point did you look at him as being a guy as a leading man, a guy you would look into for key positions and big buckets?
COACH MILLER: I think in December. Once we were in December, if you saw us start to play the higher-level competition at Michigan, at Louisville -- trying to think -- just Notre Dame. Starting looking in December, he was playing some really good basketball and you start to say we can really play through him.
When the injury happened to De'Ron, it shuffled our team a little bit. And we had to figure out how to play through him in different ways with different players around him. And he's continued to do a really great job.
He's given everything he has. He's probably running on fumes right now here at the end, the amount of minutes he's played, what we've asked him to do defensively and offensively.
He's had a great year. I hope he's rewarded for that in the next couple of weeks because he's earned obviously an All-Big Ten player. If there's a guy that's more valuable to their team than he is to ours, that's going to be debatable there.
Q. Bates-Diop had 24 points, took him 24 shots, what did you guys do well?
COACH MILLER: I think Zach really is he's more of a guard than he's a front court player. Facing up to the basket is really a strength. He's got unbelievable length. He shoots over the top of you. But I think for the most part we did a pretty job of just trying to keep him in front and challenging everything that you possibly could.
He's a very difficult cover. I would be surprised if he's not the Big Ten Player of the Year, just what he had to do.
But we tried to make him work. But he hurt us down the stretch with a couple of post-ups which, to his credit, is starting to work around the rim.
Q. Going off that, what makes Zach such an effective defender against some of these --
COACH MILLER: One, he plays incredibly hard. You won't find a guy that's given more effort than he has. He's good at it, too. Sometimes you have to be a little bit talented.
He's got great feet. He is a little bit longer than you give him credit for. And he plays extremely hard. It's a good combination of a guy that believes in himself. He believes in it. He plays hard. He doesn't back down. And he's really added a different dimension to our team this season. We've really counted on him.
Q. The fact that you played Purdue, Michigan State, Ohio State here down the stretch, really tough. Does that give your guys some belief heading out east?
COACH MILLER: I think so. I think our guys -- I don't care who we play or when we play them. Especially on a neutral site, we should have great confidence that we can do some stuff. And I think we're playing extremely hard. And when you win one game, if you're able to win one, feels like a million dollars, you get a lot of confidence. That's something we look forward to. We really want to stay in New York a little bit longer than anticipated.
Q. With Justin's contributions over the last four or five games, how valuable has that been not only over that stretch, but how valuable is it for your team heading into the postseason with a young guy playing as well as he is?
COACH MILLER: He's probably playing career-best basketball for him. He's had double figures in a lot of games.
I think you're seeing a guy with a lot more confidence, physical around the basket. I mentioned he's playing tougher on both ends of the floor. He had some moments tonight where he had a hard time guarding Tate.
But as a freshman versus a senior, you hope one day you look down the line and he's able to do that to somebody. But he's building confidence that in the offseason that he should go into the offseason ready and motivated. And I think he can obviously be a game-changer as a sophomore with the amount of experience he's got.
Q. Josh started the second half and down the stretch there point guard, what did you like from him?
COACH MILLER: He was solid. Six assists, one turnover. Thought he played really hard defensively. He was engaged in the game. He did everything in his power to help us in this one. He was the most solid guy out there with the ball. So we kept him in.
Q. For Josh, especially, is it important to get a performance like that from him heading into the Big Ten Tournament?
COACH MILLER: I think that our team has really -- we've got a couple guys playing well. When we step up, get another guard in there that's playing well, we're a little bit harder to play against.
And I think he gave us some really good bursts tonight, he and Rob, and if you add in Justin and Juwan, those guys -- that's why we were able to score, I guess, 78 points or whatever it was. Overtime. Obviously two overtimes. But we were able to score in the second half because of those guys.
Indiana Players
Juwan Morgan, Justin Smith, Robert Johnson
Q. I know it's senior night but for either Juwan or Rob, Justin, I think it's like four or five straight games now, it seems like the energy he's given you around the rim, the points, how much have you seen him grow in the last few weeks I guess?
JUWAN MORGAN: I've seen him grow a lot. It translates from practice. He's finishing really well, focusing more getting to the rim and putting it in the basket. We used to call him a practice dunker because he could always dunk it hard in practice but he never was trying to dunk on anybody in the games. And now he's attacking the rim with that kind of aggressiveness.
Q. You had a hard-fought game, but to see it end like that in the final seconds how tough is that for you guys to watch that?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think it's really tough, especially, you know, with it being two overtimes and it coming down to that. We have the lead, what seemed like -- he put up what seemed like a tough shot for it to go in. Kind of stung a little bit, but at the end of the day I'm proud of the way we fought all the way to the end.
Q. Looking ahead to maybe the Big Ten Tournament, I know this is a loss, a tough loss at that, but can you carry any momentum from this game into the tournament?
JUWAN MORGAN: Definitely. As the way we've been fighting hard as a team, we have to keep that momentum going. We can't just let up. We can't take some time off and let ourselves get lackadaisical. We have to go in with the same fight we've had coming down the stretch of the season and we have to go into New York and have a fighting mentality.
Q. Robert, what do you remember about that last drive in regulation? Was the angle not right with the bank? Was It a similar type of play that led to the two free throws?
ROBERT JOHNSON: Yeah, it was pretty much the same play but, yeah, I just didn't have the type of angle that I wanted. But, yeah, both of the plays are pretty much the same.
Q. Rob, we've asked this a lot of different ways this season. You've watched it for three years. How would you describe Juwan's growth as a player, a guy who goes from reserve to being the key guy in key moments?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think he's continued to grow. Every year he's gotten better. And I think this year he really found what he was good at and stuck to it and just tried to add things to that. But always plays within himself.
And he's a great player with a lot of different weapons and things that he can do. So when you do that and stay within yourself, you're going to get good results.
Q. Robert, being a senior, had to go through a lot of changes this year, how rough has it been for you to go through all that, your final year, making all the adjustments, trying to come out and win games?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think starting off it was a little different just because it was a new coach and a new system. A lot of new faces you had to learn and new plays, new schemes and things like that.
But I think the guys have -- my teammates and I have done a good job of sticking with it throughout the season and trying to get better regardless of what point of the season we were at.
Q. 45 percent (indiscernible), last play of the game, what do you think contributed to the output?
ROBERT JOHNSON: I think it's my teammates' confidence in me. I never -- they never told me to stop shooting or stop looking for me when I was open.
So I think it's a mixture of that and just taking better shots.
Q. Justin, you continued to improve as well. After you take this, going to the Big Ten Tournament, your first time in the Big Ten Tournament, without having that experience, having a good year so far, what do you take into that?
JUSTIN SMITH: I would just say keep doing what I'm doing. I'm trying to go out there, do whatever is possible to try to win.
I'm not going to go out there and just -- I'm going to go out there and play my role and then just look to my teammates for help, just ride this momentum.
Q. Juwan, you were in foul trouble throughout most of the later part of the game. How do you stay aggressive without --
JUWAN MORGAN: I guess just playing smart and using positioning and angles more so than just trying to use brute strength to get people off their spots. And I think as we went down the stretch, that proved to be better, more often than not.
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Ohio State Head Coach Chris Holtmann
Opening Statement:
"Wow, what a game. What a game. I give Indiana a lot of credit. I just give them a lot of credit. They were battling possession for possession. I don't think either team really wanted to give in. We would like to have some possessions back and I'm sure they would too. But at the end of the day, I think being able to stay with it and give ourselves a chance. Late, C.J. made a distinctive play and it is something that we practiced, but the kid deserves the credit for the shot. It was a deep three. It's been an unbelievable way to cap an unbelievable regular season."
There were nine lead changes in the last 3-4 minutes in the second overtime, what were you seeing in your guys that enabled you to keep answering when it kept looking like Indiana could get away?
"Well this team, it does have a grit to it that is necessary in a game like this, particularly on the road. I think at the end of the day, I think that's what you're trying to preach from day one, but you hope you have guys that have that to them. That have that tough inside of them that we all look at and can identify as resiliency and grit and the ability to stay with it and not let one play affect the other. And they did that. It wasn't always perfect and we put them on the line too much and we missed some shots that we probably normally make and we didn't always play as strong as we need too, defensively we weren't very good in spots. All those things we have to get better on, but we're not going to let that diminish us of this win.
How much does it mean to have a couple of bad games on the road in a couple of tough environments to grind out a win like this in one of the toughest road environments in college basketball?
"Yeah I want to point out, again I give Indiana a lot of credit. It is a tough way to lose, but they deserve a lot of credit. And their crowd was phenomenal. Phenomenal. You're right it was a very tough environment, but we expected that knowing this place and the history here. We expected that. It was phenomenal. I just think you're trying to play a little bit better and execute a little bit better.
"Listen, we struggled against Penn State. I don't think we had any competitive spirit in that one, but they deserve a lot of credit. Michigan was just better than us on that day, and we were a lot better against Michigan in terms of our competitiveness. They were just better than us on that day for sure. This one, I have to go back and look at it, I think we made some steps forward, but we have to continue to get better.
When you win a game like that to end a regular season and go into post season play, how important is it for that as opposed to if that shot didn't go down?
"Well I think the biggest thing right now even if we would have lost and said we're going in. I have lost 3 of 4 going into the NCAA tournament, the Big East tournament. We didn't win but we played well in the tournament. Then we played really well in the NCAA tournament. The biggest thing is how you're playing, how healthy are you, and what the spirit of your team is. So sometimes you can't control the way the schedule falls late, so that's the most important part. How are we playing? Win or lose, so we do have to get better in some areas, but it's nice to be able to cap off a regular season with 15 wins, unbelievable. So it's nice to be able to cap that off.
Can you let us in what is going through your head after you see C.J. come down and put that up?
"Well I'll be honest with you, you feel really happy for the kid and the team. You also recognize quite honestly, I lost like that before and its gut wrenching, so I think that there is a level of respect required in those moments because that's a hard way to lose. It's not like I was going to say all that to Archie, but that is a hard win. You just shake their hand and move on and celebrate. They battled their fannies off. My first thought was that I'm just really happy for C.J. and for our seniors. They have just told me that they had not won in here."
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Monday, December 15
IUWBB Highlights vs. EMU
Sunday, December 14
IUBB Postgame Press Conference
Sunday, December 14
IUWBB Highlights vs. ULM
Friday, December 12