Mohamed Abukar Quotations

I think winning this game definitely puts us in the NCAA Tournament. We're definitely an NCAA Tournament team.

Rebounding is probably the biggest thing that we didn't do as well as we needed to, but that wasn't the reason we lost. We didn't do a lot of things as well as we should have. We lost because of us, not because of Utah.

We have to win games like this. Great teams can't afford to have slip-ups. We didn't have the right kind of focus we needed.

Tip your hat to them. They did a good job inside. We need to learn how to defend better with fouls. We can't become liabilities out there. We need to adjust to how a game is (being called).

We weren't able to do a number of different things. They had far too many lay-ins.

Without Kyle, we knew we'd really have to step up in the areas of things he does well like rebounding. We've come together and all realized we had to do more and hold things down for a little while longer until he comes back. When he does, we'll be that much stronger.

The best part of all is getting this win. Nothing can describe that feeling. It's the best feeling you can imagine.

It's a motivating factor. Anytime you lose to anybody, you have that chip on your shoulder. We have a lot to prove.

Indiana definitely has a lot of history and definitely is a storied program. But that's really not on my mind. I'm not worried about what they were. I'm worried about what they are right now.