They have some good players. They're a scary team and I don't think anyone would want to play them in the first round.
Carolina doesn't have a chance. They're a good team, but the Bears are a great defensive team and they're in Chicago.
I think every team comes out and just gives it their all and plays good team basketball, and we've got to be focused every game and come out with intensity.
Our experience is an advantage, but it's a team thing and can't just be two guys. You just try to tell the young guys how hard they have to play and how much they have to want to win. It's our job to deliver that message.
It opens up a lot of things. We push the ball and put pressure on the other team to get easy buckets. I think it opened up the game for us.
We didn't play as well as we wanted in the first half, but in the second we came out with the intensity we needed. We play against teams that give us their best shot. . . . It's all how you rebound from that.
Just look at teams like Hofstra and Michigan that didn't get in (the NCAA Tournament). We have to be happy. The Committee has a tough job.
I've got to continue to play well. We're a better team when I play well. That's the pressure of being an athlete.
You're always going to be compared to last year's team whatever you do, ... You can't do that. It's going to be a different team and it's going to be fun to watch because everybody's so new.
You mean so much to me. When someone wears my number, I think it represents our whole team. My teammates make me better. My coaches make me better.
They came out and did a good job. Teams come out and give us their best shot. They play hard against us.
They're real good. I feel bad about D.J. White. If they had him, they'd be a tough team to beat. They're still a tough team to beat. But that added a little more extra problems for you.
I'm just thinking about what I could have done to make the team win.
This is my fourth year in the tournament, so you already know what to expect, the intensity and how hard the team's going to play. It's a big advantage for us coming out, understanding how much energy we have to put out there to beat a team in the first round.
Teams play better without their best player because others have the opportunity to step up and make big plays. They came out trash-talking and playing with confidence.
I feel that we want to accomplish a lot. I think we got the toughest bracket with a lot of good teams on our side. Last year expectations were high, but I think they're just as high this year.
We know other teams are going to give us their best shot. It's just how mentally prepared we are. And when another team goes on a run and gets the momentum, how do we respond? Do we lay down or do we raise our intensity? In the second half tonight, we raised our intensity.
I don't think they are an easy team at all. They are a good team, well-coached, a disciplined ball club.
The word is really getting out (about Iowa Central cross country). Both teams should be much stronger this year and we have a lot more depth to work with.
Every team is going to play hard. The intensity level is so high I can't explain it.
I miss football a lot. Football made me a better teammate basketball-wise because I knew I needed my line and my receivers to block for me. Once I realized how much I needed my teammates to make me look good, that helped me as a basketball player.