Roderick Wilmont Quotations

The positive today is that we just know we can play with anybody at any time. Going into next week, we'll start it all over again. Everybody will be back to 0-0.

We are pretty much in a situation where we need every game now. We need to play as hard as we can to get a victory.

We started settling for a lot of jumpers. Jumpers that we usually hit we weren't hitting tonight, and that killed us.

We got two good looks. I think I tried to rush it because I didn't know how much time was left on the clock, and I just missed it. I thought it was going in.

We wanted to win real bad, as you can see. But in my heart, we can play with anybody. Ohio State, they're a great team, but we're a great team, too. We just came up short.

We're playing better because we love to play together. Everybody gets along.

If we keep playing the way we are, we'll be all right.

I don't know what it is. I guess I just feel it against Purdue.

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

He's a great player and his teammates are really good at getting him open shots. So it won't be easy. But you just have to stay with it and stay with it. You have to be willing to work as hard as he is working and probably just a little bit harder.

I think the Duke game really helped us for this one. We're more calm, and I think we're going to go out there and play our game.

Robert is going to be hard (to keep), but I'm going to try my best.

It felt great to get to this point. But we have to stay humble.

That's the way I've played since I was a kid in AAU and in high school. We need guys that can come off the bench and give the team a spark and make a run. That's what I did tonight.

Whoever we play next week, we know we can go in and get a win.

We went up to Connecticut last year. We should've won the game. We were up 15 in the second half and let it slip away, and Connecticut has the same team this year. We've got a better team. It's going to be an interesting game.

Without an education, they won't ever see us on TV because we wouldn't be eligible to play. So, you've got to have an education to even get this far. But like I talked to them last year, it's all about getting the grades first.

We have to keep fighting, trying to find ways to win the game. As a team we know we can win games if we shoot in the 30s -- if we play defense like we did in the second half.

The pressure is gone now. We know what the deal is now, so we just have to go out there and play.

When coach did what he did, I didn't want it to happen. But it was probably the best thing he could do for us. We've won four straight and everyone has it out of their minds.

When Earl is on the court, good things happen. He gets us into our offense quickly and gets us some good catch-and-shoot possibilities on the perimeter.

There are just too many times when we have one or two guys who take time off on defense. You can't have that. You've got to have all five guys playing defense on every possession.

We just need to go out there and fight as hard as we can for coach and for ourselves. We are the ones that are going to be putting the ball in the hole and diving on the floor. There are little things that we have to take care of the next couple weeks. I think that we can get it done, and it can still be a great year for us.

We weren't playing the way we (had been) playing. We were playing just to run out the clock.

We had our struggles, but I think we had our struggles at the right time. Now we're winning games, and that's all that matters going into the Big Ten tournament.

Sometimes in a situation like that, you'd just rather lose that game by 40 than to lose it by one like that. Losing like that, it hurts me more. To me, I felt like I let my team down. I know I could have hit that shot, but I guess you've just got to move on.

Coach is telling us over and over about effort. We've got to stop talking about effort. Everybody's got to go out there and play hard.

Anything we can do for coach Davis to help him coach one more game, that's what we're going to do.

It seems like every time we win a game we have to fight back to get in the game. We're used to playing like that, I guess.

It's an honor to play for him. This team has fought real hard to get where we've gotten. Four weeks ago, we could have let the season go, but we've fought hard.

I tried to get it up on time because I didn't know how much time was left on the clock. I just missed it.

It's not a distraction anymore. Now we know what the deal is. We can go out there and just play like we've been doing.

The last couple of years, we didn't have that. Now, when you mess up, you're going to know. We're a much better team.

I'm just glad this is all out the way. I just hope that other players, what I went through for the last three years I've been here, don't have to go through it. I'm glad we got everything on the right foot, and we are starting fresh.

I just have to go with the flow of the game and whatever happens, happens.

I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play.

I don't know. I guess I could tell him he can take all the shots.

He told D.J. in the locker room that he would be the go-to man next season and if you know that then you might as well stay. I think he's leaning toward coming back.

He's a humble guy and the first impression was a good one, I thought. The first thing he came in and said was that it was all about the team, and that's good because we're pretty close after all we went through.

All the hard work we put in came to the (forefront).