J. Horton Knew Quotations

We knew that we had played a great team and competed with them toe-to-toe. But at the same time, it gave us a direction to go in our program. We knew too that we weren't the caliber team that they were.

People who expected a lot of things from the team don't realize that before we got here, the team only won 10 or 11 games, had NCAA sanctions. And people wanted national championship success right away. We knew it wasn't going to be like that. We knew it was going to be a long grind and a process. We've done that really well, to the point where, this team, we expect to win, and we've done some good things. It's been a great ride.

I should've had 13 assists because of missed passes to Courtney Sims. I wanted to come out and distribute the basketball because we knew they'd be playing a lot of zone.

Anthony Davis knew who Dennis Winston was, ... When he tackled Anthony Davis, he went backwards. I always said he dropped him like a dead bird.

Today we knew we had to get this one. We had to keep ourselves in position to have something happen for us.

People were expecting a lot of things from this team, and they don't realize, before we got here, they were winning 11 games and facing NCAA sanctions. They wanted national championship success right away, and we knew it wasn't going to be like that. It was going to be a long grind and process. We've done that really well, to the point where we expect to win.

We knew we had to step up. Lester is a big part of our team. It was a big blow. Hopefully, he'll be ready for Michigan State. I think he will be.

We knew we had to make a commitment to play defense and that's what we talked about at our meeting. If we play defense like we played tonight we're very tough to beat.

I'm just glad I had a chance to influence when my last game was going to be. I knew when it was coming and I'm satisfied with that. Like I said before Senior Day, I'm not sad about it or anything like that. There comes a time in life where you turn the page and that's where we are as seniors. We want to end right.