20 Quotes by Nick DeWitz

We are going to kick them when they are down. They've been struggling, so we are not going to give them any breathing room.

No one goes in there thinking, 'Oh, we've got another road game. The seniors are almost looking forward to road trips so we can get that gorilla off our backs.

Personally, in the beginning of the year I could have come in in better shape, and been more focused on what other teams were looking at me to do. I really didn't come in as prepared as I should have been. But that's neither here nor there. It's over now.

He hit a big shot. He's a good player, and played well all game. What can I say; I tried the best I could. I tried to contest it. I had a hand up, but he just hit it.

He's a big factor for our team. We trust him when he's out there to run the offense and protect the ball. Everyone is confident when he's out there. But the guys who have stepped up and replaced him have done a great job. It's just tough when a senior leader goes out who's so valuable to our team.

Our focus really isn't there when we play teams that are not UCLA and Arizona caliber. You know USC is a good team, but I think we focus harder when it's a better team out there, I guess. With four seniors we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't play to the level we think they are. Every team is good in this conference, and I think it's a lack of focus.

I think I found my role. It's different from the way it was last year. I played a lot of (wing) last year when we had David. I did some slashing and coming off curls. I'm not doing that now. I'm setting screens. I'm not used to that.

I think last year we had a lot of revenge in mind. They beat us by 40. We had a lot to prove to them.

We just didn't have the right pieces combining early in the season. We knew what we had, but we didn't put the pieces together. We weren't meshing as a team like we are now. Teams are not looking at us as individuals anymore, but as a team.