Mike Davis Team Quotations

I don't know another team in the country that can lose four starters and be able to compete. The scary part is that they are all coming back next year. Then you are looking at a Purdue team that could be in the top two or three in pre-conference (next year).

We looked like a team that's afraid to play on the road.

We played a very good basketball team tonight. They made the game too hard for us. I thought we gave everything we had in the first, but the way they played, the way they shot the basketball I don't think we could have won. They did what they had to do, and they took care of the home game.

Every game this year I've been batting 3-for-4 or 4-for-4 and scoring runs, doing whatever I can to try to win. We have a team this year that I think can go to states. It takes a whole team to do it and I'm trying to do my part.

I should be trying to coach basketball and our guys should be enjoying their college careers. But I don't know if I've had a team that's had positive memories out of this whole deal since I've been here.

This is the best team -- other than Duke -- that we've played to this point.

I never seen this coming. You know, I never seen this type of game coming, especially the kind of team we are, the kind of character we have. But, you know, you never say 'never.' They came out and they just punched us. We didn't recover from it.

(The basketball teams) play on it. I think the men's team is undefeated at home, so I guess we're doing pretty good.

They are the only team this year to win at Illinois, so that goes to show you they are capable of beating anyone at any time.

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.

We went from being a very deep basketball team to only having enough to practice today.

This team is a better basketball team because this team has bought into what we're trying to do. But I can't talk about last year.