I'm blessed to be with my parents. If anything, I thank the people who brought me into this world for putting me into the position I'm in.

It's been intense. We didn't like the feeling of the Iowa game.

Dee's a prime-time player. I'm biased, but he's probably the best basketball player in the country. He has a great amount of energy, and everything he says to you is real. He's not going to sugarcoat anything. We definitely feed off of that.

This is the hardest we've probably played in a while.

We shot some bad shots. We let the crowd get into it, and they got into our heads a bit. We just shut down. For us to do that, that's not acceptable.

I think a lot of guys really paid attention to that statement because we thought we were doing well. Obviously, coach thinks we need to do a little more.