Tom Izzo Deserve Quotations

He is a product of staying four years. He is having an incredible senior year. He's under control more. He deserves a ton of credit for changing his game. I hardly see him forcing his shot anymore. I think he's more of a team guy this year. I think that's one of the reasons they're better.

They are a never-quit team. I told my team when we were up 16 that they could come back. They deserve more credit than we do blame.

I can't say I was extremely ecstatic about our play, and Purdue deserves some of the credit for that. Yet in clutch times, these guys came through.

We didn't play well, they played well. They deserve the credit that they get. That's an NCAA (Tournament) team, I don't think there's any question about that.

The NCAA wants you to make sure nobody's fighting, and then they don't want you breaking it up. My assistant doesn't deserve any of the blame for that; I do. I didn't appreciate the double-technical because I didn't think that was deserved.

I think Ohio State deserves a lot of credit. The last four minutes of the game, they played extremely well. I didn't think I'd have to go with a four-guard lineup as much as we did.

It was a game that slipped away. Give credit to them, they deserved to win it. It was just too bad, because I think we played well enough in a lot of ways to win the game.

It was a game that slipped away. Give credit to them, they deserved to win.

I think I got kind of a worn-out team right now. I can come up with a lot of different reasons, excuses, but we were just flat-out beat. And I did not think we played with the energy we needed to play. We still hung in there, and then we had the knockout punch of that three-minute span, and Illinois deserves a lot of credit for that.

I think Shannon Brown deserves a lot of credit. ... I thought he did a great job on Taylor and that was the difference in the game.

They deserved to win. I'm not sure they worked any harder (than his team) in practice, but on this given night they brought it. It was their night and they deserved it.

We wanted to honor all the people who keep us out of harm's way every day. That's why we recognized our military, the Army and Navy, the Red Cross and emergency medical technicians. They're the ones who deserve the applause.

It was their night and they deserved it. We're just going to have to lick our wounds, appreciate our seniors and move on.