We easily could have lost that game to Notre Dame. The way the young guys played, it just shows they're not going to give up. We don't want to lose. If we do, it'll add fuel to the fire.

We played average. We were lucky to get two out of three. We could have easily lost Saturday's game. The team isn't there yet but they'll get there.

We came up here and our guys wanted to win this game so bad and we played so hard. We prepared so hard during the week, and it just hurts. It really does.

It was nothing more than we went out there and played a solid game. It wasn't the fact that the coaches let us loose. We just played well. Period.

If we lost this game, we might be done, ... It shows we can battle back. If feels good whenever I get chances to be successful.

Coach Thompson comes to just about every game and those guys who played for him and Coach Baggot talk about how they used to just terrorize teams with their defense. Coach Hicks is here a lot and we talk a lot, and his teams obviously were great defensively. ... That tradition is an advantage we have.