Tom Izzo Elves Quotations

There's got to be more punishment on the people directly involved. Maybe if coaches were not only punished but banned if they were found guilty of something. Maybe we need to self-police ourselves better -- I don't think there's many coaches turning each other in.

I didn't sleep very well. We got into the flow better and I feel fortunate to win. It wasn't good enough to pat ourselves on the back.

It was like Santa's elves working on Christmas day.

After watching (Atlantic Coast Conference) basketball growing up, when they started moving that thing to different sites I thought it hurt more than helped. So that's the only question I would have. Do we need to establish ourselves in a spot and really build on that?

Iowa's good enough to win the Big Ten title. They've helped themselves this week by beating Indiana (Saturday) and us.

I've said all along there were six teams capable of winning the Big Ten, and that hasn't changed. Iowa has its work cut out for it, but they've helped themselves a lot this week winning at Indiana and beating Michigan State at home.

We've gotten such a good system down, my managers can get a lot of stuff done. It was unbelievable around here (Sunday) night. If you open the door in that room it was Santa's elves working on Christmas Day. They were going at it. There were sparks coming out of that room. They all take some ownership.