Brendan Winters Quotations

I don't think we've been down by that much (17 points) to a Southern Conference opponent this year. For us to be able to pull through it should make us that much stronger.

It has added a little extra fire. We felt last year we should have been in the NCAA, but we didn't perform when we had to.

My name always gets paired with his. Everyone always tells me my shot looks like his. That's because he taught me how to shoot. And I'm definitely thankful for that.

We got confused a couple of times on ball screens and he was able to get some open looks. I guess it just happened to be his time.

This year, we finished third in the league and we weren't happy about that. But I think that made us a little looser and that just allowed us to come out and play to win rather than not to lose.

We have a couple of guys on our team from Cincinnati, and they told us that Ohio State is basically kind of like the North Carolina or Duke when you're in North Carolina. We're kind of around that every day. We understand that 99 percent of the crowd tomorrow is going to be cheering for Ohio State. But we're OK with that thought, I think.

We understand that 90 percent of the crowd tomorrow is going to be cheering for Ohio State. We're OK with that though.

Coming in the tournament last year, we felt a lot of pressure. We felt like we had to win, we were supposed to win, and I think we got a little uptight.

It was extremely frustrating. But for us to pull through it, makes us that much stronger.

It was pretty frustrating. We haven't been down by that much against Southern Conference teams this season.