The first punch is the sweetest.

“You can’t have moments where you come out and just kind of take the temperature of what the other team is going to do. You have to come out there, and I don’t care who you’re playing, and be the aggressors. You’ve got to come out and throw the first punch.”

-ISU coach Fred Hoiberg

Complacency is a killer.

“I feel like when we go on a winning streak, we get too complacent and don’t compete like we should be competing.”

-Georges Niang

The treacherous 12.

“When you play the team that’s last in your league, you think you can just make up anything, but that’s not the case in the Big 12.”

-Georges Niang

Read everything else the ISU players and coaches had to say here.