Kermit Davis: I'd like to compliment Minnesota and Richard. He's a good friend of mine, and the turnaround they had this year was terrific. We beat a really physical, tough Big Ten, the team that had won at Purdue, won at Maryland. I thought our team, you know, we got out 0-7 but we're getting balls where we wanted. Lynch kind of intimidated us earlier. Minnesota made a great run. Reggie really made some great plays for us in a 4, 5-minute stretch. Balanced scoring and the key today was 37-24 rebounding. So plus 13 for us is a big part of the win.
Q. Reggie, Coach just mentioned that the plays that you made when Minnesota was making that run, what's going through your head and what were you doing during that stretch?
REGGIE UPSHAW: During the timeout, you know, we were confident that we would be able to weather the storm of their run, but, you know, in my head I was just thinking I'm a senior leader so, you know, JaCorey was having a rough night so I just -- Giddy was in foul trouble. I felt like this was the perfect time for me to kind of step up and, you know, kind of shoulder the offense and try to get everybody else going.
Q. What was it like today seeing Lynch in person and also the 1-3-1, how much do you think that bothered them today when you switched it out in the first half?
JACOREY WILLIAMS: I think Reggie Lynch really started the game off with a great impact for their team. He's real big, hard to kind of play with him inside, he was blocking shots, rebounding. Kind of changed the game a little bit, went to the 1-3-1, like Reggie said, it's really our bread and butter, kind of helped the whole team guard everybody on the court.
Q. Coach, could you talk a little bit what your game plan was to keep Minnesota off the rebounds? You held them to only 4 offensive rebounds today.
COACH DAVIS: We're just a rebounding team. Obviously, it's an emphasis every time we play, especially when you play Minnesota. I think the changing of defenses, it kind of gets people to stand at times. And so when we go from our 1-3-1 to 2-3 zone, back to some man-to-man, and so teams don't get in a great rhythm of offense. I think when teams get in a better rhythm of offense, they become a better rebounding team. I think some of those changes probably affected that.
Q. Reggie, Coach just mentioned that the plays that you made when Minnesota was making that run, what's going through your head and what were you doing during that stretch?
REGGIE UPSHAW: During the timeout, you know, we were confident that we would be able to weather the storm of their run, but, you know, in my head I was just thinking I'm a senior leader so, you know, JaCorey was having a rough night so I just -- Giddy was in foul trouble. I felt like this was the perfect time for me to kind of step up and, you know, kind of shoulder the offense and try to get everybody else going.
Q. What was it like today seeing Lynch in person and also the 1-3-1, how much do you think that bothered them today when you switched it out in the first half?
JACOREY WILLIAMS: I think Reggie Lynch really started the game off with a great impact for their team. He's real big, hard to kind of play with him inside, he was blocking shots, rebounding. Kind of changed the game a little bit, went to the 1-3-1, like Reggie said, it's really our bread and butter, kind of helped the whole team guard everybody on the court.
Q. Coach, could you talk a little bit what your game plan was to keep Minnesota off the rebounds? You held them to only 4 offensive rebounds today.
COACH DAVIS: We're just a rebounding team. Obviously, it's an emphasis every time we play, especially when you play Minnesota. I think the changing of defenses, it kind of gets people to stand at times. And so when we go from our 1-3-1 to 2-3 zone, back to some man-to-man, and so teams don't get in a great rhythm of offense. I think when teams get in a better rhythm of offense, they become a better rebounding team. I think some of those changes probably affected that.
