Richard Pitino
- Good to have a wakeup call, but I'm glad we're 11-1.
- Amir has turf toe. It will be the trainer's call if he's back for Michigan State.
- Nate Mason played really well in the first half, and Dupree was phenomenal attacking the basket in the second half.
- From a body standpoint, McBrayer has put on weight but could still put on more. He was playing well towards the end of last year. He's put in the work and is playing with great confidence. I was always very excited about him, recruiting him.
- Trainer makes the decisions about players. About 5-6 minutes before tip-off the decision was made for Amir not to play.
- Every time we've practiced, we've got about 45 minutes in of quality shooting reps and then walked through the gameplan. I think the shooting's paid off. We need to get back to working on defense, though.
- We're still really young so it's important for Nate to give us veteran presence.
- Curry has good hands. I like how he gets the ball and goes to the rim right away. He moves well. For a true freshman, he's really good.
- I think it's been pretty effective when we go small to defend smaller teams.
- It was maybe against Indiana last year that Dupree kind of came out of his shell a little bit and grew his confidence as a shooter. He hasn't changed anything mechanically; it's just confidence.
- This game is scary for coaches because they have papers and exams. My biggest focus now is to get them ready for finals.
- Proud of Frink on the other side. That year at FIU was pretty special. We had three scholarship players and it was May. We took a bunch of kids just from knowing people. Jerome Frink was my first in-home visit as a head coach, and I didn't really know what I was doing. Jerome played great as a freshman and we were a basket away from the NCAA Tournament with almost an entire team thrown together in the summer. I'm proud of Jerome.
- It keeps the defense on its toes when you have two people who can create in the backcourt like us. It takes pressure off me.
- Put in work this offseason on my outside shot, so I'm more comfortable shooting threes this season.
- All the Big Ten teams get a little break like us over Christmas, so we need to get better too. That's the focus for the next nine days.
- The career high feels good. The guys did a good job of trying to help get me going.
- My teammates and Coach was telling me to be aggressive.
- Didn't feel any additional pressure to score with Amir out. We have a ton of scorers on this team.
- Off the court Nate and I hang out a lot and that helps with our chemistry too.
- Coach tells me to shoot a lot. Honestly sometimes I don't even want to shoot and he makes me shoot.
- You can't skip to greatness. It's a process.
