Lenny Bernstein Quotations

He's certainly built a lot of confidence throughout the year. I think he's had some milestones to get over, and now he's beating some guys who are ranked in the top 20.

He has a very tough match this coming weekend against another freshman. If we can win some of those toss-up battles, and I consider that a toss-up, then I think we have a good chance to beat them this weekend. But if it goes the other way, it's going to be a tough, tough weekend for us. But we're ready for them. We've been progressing and getting better, and our freshman, sophomores are getting a little bit more battle-tested.

We treated it like other matches and went in with a workman's-like attitude. We knew what we had to do and feeling that we matched up pretty well with Maryland, we were confident going into the match.

Going into the tournament, we recognized the considerable parity of the top four teams in the conference. So, we looked at it in terms of if we do really well, we could take the whole thing. And on the other hand, if we do really poorly, we could be fourth.

That's the thing that is really hard. You look at it and you think they won pretty big, but really in essence they won a lot of close matches. We needed to win those matches. Even late in the periods there were a few matches where we were behind and were not taking the shots we need to finish.

We will have a better team for sure next year. And it won't be only from the conference perspective, but from the national one as well. I think we definitely have a shot at fielding one of the top 15, and at least one of the top 20, teams in the country.

We have a 125-pounder lose and somebody else upper weight has to pick up the slack and we seem to have done that. Ohio was a good win. They're a nice team but there are a lot of guys that left unsatisfied because we split with them match-wise. And the James Madison win was also a little bit bittersweet having lost several matches to them as well.

We weren't offensive. That was the main thing. We talked about that we needed to get the first takedown and get a chance to get on top. We didn't give ourselves chances. We weren't daring out there.

We weren't offensive. That was the main thing. We didn't give ourselves a chance. We weren't daring. We hustled, but were not aggressive. We were behind late in periods and not taking shots.

Brent has beaten top 10- and top 20-ranked wrestlers. As he gains both experience and confidence, he is closer to being considered a veteran.

At the beginning of the year, he knocked off a guy that was top 20 and then he lost the very next match. So it reminds me he's a freshman, but I think since then he's really shown a lot of maturity and progressively gotten better.

As a freshman, Eric has stepped into a starting position and I think his record speaks for itself. He will probably be the number-one seed in the conference tournament.

Back to back we face two of our biggest rivals. We have to come out wrestling a lot better.

It was disappointing to see us come out a little flat on our feet. I thought that we hustled -- I think there is a difference between hustling and being aggressive, and we weren't aggressive.

It's a Big Ten team. Ohio State always had traditionally a great team. This year they're a bit down but being a bit down, still, for Ohio State is very, very tough.

It's almost like we have a chip on our shoulder, and I think that's the way we like to wrestle. Guys wrestle with a physical style, and I think they get after it and that's why it's an exciting opportunity for our young guys.