Matt Sylvester Quotations

I found myself feeling bad for those guys, guys who have had such great careers, then they go and lose on Senior Day.

I don't know what I was thinking - my mind was pretty much blank, hoping that I'd make the shot. But when I let that one go, I felt pretty good about it.

He was the player of the game in my mind today.

He gave me the beads and I shoved them in my sock. I had them there the whole game. Now I'll have to take him out for a steak dinner or something.

I wish I could sugarcoat it, but the back was hurting a lot. I?m a pretty humble person, but I?m proud of myself that I could stay out there. To be completely honest, I was probably 70 to 75 percent tonight. It was hurting literally the entire time.

We could hear Davidson down the hall partying and yelling and screaming. I think he wanted it to light a fire under us. ... The seniors just wanted to make sure this wasn't the last time we all played together, the last time this team was going to be together. And we made that point to each other.

Who believed we were going to go the whole year and not have a game (like that)? That was our game.

What really sparks Ron is the doubters. A guy that comes from Bowling Green to a major university like Ohio State, what really lights his fire is proving people wrong.

I should be bouncing off the walls on Sunday, my legs are so fresh. I hope we don't have these refs; I'll get five fouls.

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

I've been giving him assists here for five years. It's about time he gave me one.

We went into the game knowing we had to get this one.

We went into the game knowing we had to get this one. This feels so good. We had our backs against the wall, and you tell yourself we need a win. When you get it, it feels that much better.

We went into this game and we knew we had to get this one. I think that's why this win feels so good.

A lot of it is the way they play. They?re so damn physical, it really forces the referees to make tough decisions. The crowd is in their ear, Alford?s in their ear, and they?re human.

They say the older you get, the more you become like your parents. It's scary. I'm becoming just like him. I've got a little bit more hair.

They (the officials) had it out for me. They didn't want me in the game for some reason.

(Indiana) got switched up a little bit, then Terence (Dials) found me under the basket. I told him, 'I've been giving you assists for five years,' so it's about time he gave me one.

They were so long, so athletic, and so strong inside. Everything we tried, we just couldn't do it.

The first one was probably a foul, I had my arms around him. The second one I stuck my hands straight up and he jumped into me.

He came in and showed that he deserves to be here. He paved the way for us.