Greg Brunner Quotations

We stuck it out. We knew they would come out jacked up and ready to play. That's their style. They always come out big in the first couple minutes, and big in the second half.

We knew they would want to punch us right away. We knew if we would play our style of game, we would be OK.

We've got big wins. I think we've proven ourselves in that way. We just have got to make sure that we can get key road wins for contention. We want to win a Big Ten title.

We're a 3 seed, so we know that we're favored. We want to advance, and keep playing.

We're at a point now that we've got to hope and pray for somebody else. You never want to be in that situation, but hopefully everything works out.

The place was crazy, and we just fed off that. The fans gave us the energy that we needed.

If we got this one, we could have really set ourselves up real nice. But it didn't happen. We've just got to make sure that we continue with our run.

I felt horrible. I've been thinking about this forever. I didn't forget him. I overlooked him.

If we lose either one of these games it doesn't even matter.

He's a good player. He picked his team up and led them to the victory.

He was better shooting tonight than he has been.

(Hansen) has made some crucial plays for us. That's what seniors do. He picked it up.

Just looking at their team and the caliber of players and looking at their record. Any team that has 25 wins, you know you can't underestimate what they can do. Especially for a senior-leaden team.

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

I think we did everything right. I think we handed it off the right way. The fans are really into it now, and I think people are starting to appreciate the program.

Jeff got after me a little bit. I yelled that the screen was coming, but he didn't hear me. He started yelling at me after he got up.

Jeff and I have always wanted to leave here with the program in great shape.

I think he can be one of the most dominant players on the team, the league. He's got the touch, the hands. He rebounds; he's big and strong.

That was one of our main goals. To accomplish that is something nobody else has done.

That's the Jeff of old, right there. It's amazing what a guy can do without that (brace).

I was online looking at the box score, play-by-play. I kept refreshing it, and it kept messing up on me. Finally, I just saw it on the ticker on ESPN.

You just look at that team. The caliber of players they have. They're not going to be intimidated.

We were moving the ball around so well, so quickly, that it looked like it was on a string as it went from guy to guy.

We still have a bad taste in our mouths from that game. We know what it's like to be in the NCAA tournament, now we want to know what it feels like to advance.

We said we wanted to leave this program in good shape. We've done that.

We've got to bounce back and be resilient. You definitely can't hang your head.

There's media attention everywhere about it. It's all over all the news and we haven't let it bother us yet.

I've been born and raised a Hawkeye. I couldn't imagine anything else.

I've seen my name up there with (the top players) and I'm just happy to be there. Just being a member of the first or second team is an honor.

It was tough today. You know this is going to be your last game.

Northwestern's really never done anything nice for us. Now would be a good way to end our relationship with those guys, and let them knock off Ohio State.

A senior shouldn't miss that shot, but I did.

A senior should hit that shot, and I didn't. Nothing else I can say about that.

That's just college basketball for you. Any minute, a team can lose.

That's going to be something you can hold for a lifetime. There's so many personalities on this team, and I think it's going to be a great way for fans to understand the way we do things, how we are and the way we interact.

You're going on a touchy subject for me here, man.

This is probably the biggest game in Carver?Hawkeye history.

They took it to us down low. They pounded the glass. We struggled a little bit defensively.

They understand if they want to be successful in life, they've got to be able to handle multi-tasking. I think guys are starting to realize that, and they want to be successful.

They don't have a lot of pressure on them. More of the pressure is on us.

They're both good teams. I really don't have a problem with who we play.

As seniors, you want to go out on top.

It's kind of a melting pot that's always full of flames.

It was blatantly a beating, that's all it was. They plain flat beat us in every aspect of the game.

It was rough. The refs did a great job and said they were going to let the players fight and determine the game.

It might have been first time in my career. I can promise you it will be the last time.

It's one of those games where it was just bouncing the other way. I haven't really seen that all year, and hopefully that's not a trend that continues.

It's like AAU ball. Sometimes you'd play five games in one day. Players do it enough times that it's not a big deal.

Everybody has a right to their opinion. I don't have to agree with it. I don't have to like it. . . . That's part of college basketball now.

The best scenario was us losing. It really put a fire underneath us.

It's better to have it in your hands, instead of having to worry about this team needs to beat that team. It seems like whenever that needs to happen, it doesn't go our way.

Oh, no. But we're at a point where we have to hope and pray someone else can win a game and help us out.

It's tough, but we don't have anybody to blame but ourselves. We let a couple of games get away from us that we should have won.

It was just one of those nights. That's the best we've played together in a long time.

I'm fine, it's March Madness, I don't feel a thing.

I never anticipated my career ending like . . . that. It's the way I would never have pictured it. It happens this way.

I missed a lot of point-blank shots I normally don't miss. It's just the wear and tear of Big Ten basketball. Those are shots I've got to make, regardless if I have hand injury or not.

I had to step back a little bit and calm my nerves. I was pretty tight early.

If you get 10 of those, you're usually going to win. They give you the key components.

I like those places. They're fun places to play in.

If you would have told us we were going to beat a Michigan team like that by 28, I would have probably laughed at you.

He's the kid I've taken under my wing. Without that shot and without that pass to Jeff, we wouldn't have won this game.

This has been the best year of my life. Seventeen?and?oh, baby.

You've always got to win at home. You've got to go 8-0 at home. That's where the pressure is. If you can do that, it sets you up great.