Ilian Evtimov Team Quotations

We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense.

I was tired, I am sure everyone else was, but I felt like we were the better conditioned team and that should have showed at the end of the game. Unfortunately, it didn't.

We know that they are a good team that beat Maryland. It will be a good test for us and a good test for them.

I guess we're going to go in under the radar now. People are going to say that we're not playing real well. But that's not a bad situation to be in, knowing that you are a very good basketball team that's just going through a bad stretch.