Steve Alford Game Quotations

I woke up and I was upset. A lot of times I watch tape, and I pause it and see what's going on. That would have been a neat game to switch over and see what he's doing.

It is obviously a tough game for us.

I think the majority of the players who leave early aren't successful. You have more failure stories than success stories with that, but that's the nature of our game right now.

I thought our leadership was tremendous. At the start of the game it was very good, and at the start of the second half it was very good. It's a great way to start a tournament.

We've still got another home game to play. Colgate is a very experienced team.

A win on the road is never easy in this league. We feel fortunate that we're sitting 3-4 (away from home in conference play) with one more game remaining on the road.

This is probably the most uptight I've been all season. Just because you wanted to win this game so bad.

This is not a make-or-break game, but it is a game that is very important to us. It would be nice to actually have some success (on the road) before we start the Big Ten on the road next week.

This is a very difficult game to all of a sudden break in guard play, especially with the guards that they have. We just lost an outstanding player, and two days later we've got to deal with this. I thought we handled it as well as our guys are capable of handling it right now.

I put that game behind me. I don't remember a lot about it. I'd rather talk about Syracuse (the game Indiana won to claim the national championship in 1987).

It was a great journey this year. It's hard for the seniors that their last game had to be like this.

In a game like this, you really rely on your leadership.

This is a great prep game for us going into the game at Wisconsin.

It will be a nightmare game for us if we don't take care of the backboard and don't take care of transition.

This was a big game in a lot of ways.

This was a big game in a lot of ways. If we can get five wins against Top 25 teams, that's pretty special. You can't take that away, and it bodes well when we look at the postseason.

This was the game where we needed him to score. He took it on himself to do that. He led the team today.