38 Quotes by Drew Neitzel

You look at all of the teams that make it to the Final Four, they have great guard play. Not just point guard play, but guard play.

It would have been really easy for us to get frustrated. We kept fighting through it. We knew we could pull it out because we've done it before.

Offensively, we never really got anything going. Everything we got, we had to earn. We didn't get any easy baskets.

Anybody can say this is just another Big Ten game. But in reality, it's not.

You never want to lose to your rival. It hurts. But more importantly, it hurts in the Big Ten race. We're going to have to win out to have a chance.

They're going to be coming in here confident. This is a key stretch for us now, and we've just got to stay consistent.

It's kind of a big deal. We can't continue to foul because we're not as deep at some positions, so it could come back to haunt us in a big game sometime.

It was a rough Big Ten season. We had to put that behind us. I think we got new life coming into March madness. We still got that confidence. We feel we have just as good a chance of winning as anybody.

It's gonna be a great challenge, Dee Brown's one of the best point guards in the country. They're a great defensive team, and we're really gonna have to prepare.