We were in disbelief. It just kept spiraling down and it was hard to stay focused.

We both knew each other's offense and defense. It was more of who was going to execute more.

It's four years and it's a special group, special place and four years I'll never forget. I don't even know how to put it in words. (Marquette basketball) has taught me so much, mostly off the floor stuff that is, that I'm going to continue on my whole life with.

Whatever coach decides is best for the team, we'll go with it. I'll do whatever I can to get in there and help the team try to win. My goal is to win and whatever needs to happen happens.

It was the hardest part of our schedule. Granted, there are no excuses for the way we played, but they were all top teams in our conference.

It's happened so many times to us, I don't want to say we're used to (being down), but we don't quit. We're fighters. It's just the attitude we have. We're not going to back down.

We've been talking the last couple of days about attacking, and we've been running a lot of execution (drills) in practice. Tonight, we had a good balance of attacking and taking the right shot.

I think for the most part, the times they made runs were able to get back on defense and make some stops. But we didn't make as many stops in a row as we wanted to and needed to.

We were more relaxed. In the first half we missed 10 lay-ups and that's 20 points. In the second half our offense picked up and we made more stops on defense, but it was too little, too late.