Mike Davis Playing Quotations

Marshall is playing his best basketball the last two games. He has been really good for us and hit for double figures in both games. He will help from an offensive standpoint.

I think right now, we are playing well. Defensively, our intensity has stepped up. The energy and effort we are giving is more important than the wins. I think we are figuring out now that we have to go out and play tough for 40 minutes.

I thought we had a chance to put the game away in the second half. We played not to lose instead of playing to win.

We played with a lot of intensity. We are playing better, way better than ever before.

At the end it felt like we played not to lose instead of playing to win.

Teams have made adjustments to our point guard not being able to shoot the ball. They haven't played our point guard at all. They've been playing us five-on-four. I wonder why it took so long to make those adjustments. Now I have to make some adjustments.

It's important to establish home-court advantage. I think we're playing pretty well right now and we need that to carry over to conference play.

It's tough because D.J. was playing unbelievable the last week and a half, ... But Kline has been playing lights out.

I probably should have stepped down a little earlier. I felt it. Our guys' minds were just gone. What you have to understand is that they care about me, and I care about them, and sometimes when you try to play to keep someone's job, you have a tendency not to do anything. Right now, they're just playing basketball. Three weeks ago, this game probably would be a 20-point (loss). The game at Purdue (a 70-59 Indiana victory) would have been a 10-15 point loss. Right now, we're playing with peace of mind.

I probably should have stepped down a little earlier. Our guys' minds were just gone because what you have to understand is they care about me ... Sometimes when you're playing to try and keep someone's job, you have a tendency not to do anything.

They have a good basketball team and they just lost some road games. That's part of being in a good conference. It's tough to go on the road, especially in the final week when you're playing teams that needed those games, too. Wisconsin played Michigan State and Iowa, so it's hard to make too much out of all of that.

They have an experienced team, so playing on the road will not bother them. They beat us here last time we played, so they will have confidence coming in here knowing they could win at Assembly Hall.