They play very unselfishly. They play pretty good defense, when they feel like it. They turn it on and off a little bit, and that's not good. But they've been cooperative and pretty much done what we've asked.

Some nights the shots just don't fall. When that happens you just have to play good defense and kind of grind out the win.

After they scored, we still were pretty even in play. In the second half they scored again with 15 minutes to play. We just never could put anything together.

Illinois and Michigan State are both going to play pretty good defense. They're playing a little better than we are defensively right now, and I guarantee you both teams are going to run.

We're starting to come together and play better. Our defense has been pretty good all season. We just have to continue to hit the ball.

That was a tremendous stop. When we play defense, we can be pretty good and we did an outstanding job in the last 30 seconds. There are going to be some nights when it's going to come own to that one shot, and that's why we play defense and take pride in it.