Tom Izzo Deserves Quotations

I can't say I was extremely ecstatic about our play, and Purdue deserves some of the credit for that. Yet in clutch times, these guys came through.

He is a product of staying four years. He is having an incredible senior year. He's under control more. He deserves a ton of credit for changing his game. I hardly see him forcing his shot anymore. I think he's more of a team guy this year. I think that's one of the reasons they're better.

I think I got kind of a worn-out team right now. I can come up with a lot of different reasons, excuses, but we were just flat-out beat. And I did not think we played with the energy we needed to play. We still hung in there, and then we had the knockout punch of that three-minute span, and Illinois deserves a lot of credit for that.

I think Shannon Brown deserves a lot of credit. ... I thought he did a great job on Taylor and that was the difference in the game.

I think Ohio State deserves a lot of credit. The last four minutes of the game, they played extremely well. I didn't think I'd have to go with a four-guard lineup as much as we did.