Dusty May press conference after loss to Wisconsin

Yeah, I want to thank our fans. They created a heck of a home court environment today. They brought the energy, the enthusiasm, and also want to give Wisconsin credit. They came in here and they took a punch early.

They responded and went into halftime with some positive momentum and came out the second half and knocked us on our heels a little bit. They exposed some things with our plan, with our team. That we thought were going to be issues this year. We just didn't think we would see so many of them on the same night.

But they made plays. Our plan, our coaching, our playing wasn't up to our standards. But in reality, it's been 4 games since we played really well. And to be honest, the only thing I'm disappointed in was when we started competing at a high, high level, it looked different than the other 25 or 30 minutes of the game.

And there can't be— we can't be a team with what we're playing for that has two different levels of intensity, of relentlessness, and that's what happened today. But I don't want to take anything away from Wisconsin. They came in here and they did it. They took it.

It's our defense and it's a combination of our plan and our execution. Once again, they played well. I thought, you know, their ability to get wherever they wanted to off the bounce and some matchups that we usually don't have that happen against. It caused us to change our rotations.

It caused us to change our coverages. And, but it wasn't as if they weren't making plays. I mean, they, especially Boyd and Blackwell, Nolan Winter made a big shot or two. But the thing that really jumped out, and I need to go back and look at the film, was it seemed like several rebounds, offensively especially.

We fought for them, we worked for them, we got in position to get them, and I thought we had them, and then they would come in with a fingertip or just a way to knock it loose, and we weren't able to come up with those possessions. I thought in a game like this, when they were scoring like they were, if we could have gotten a few more offensive rebounds and made them play defense, then possibly you take a little bit of the rhythm out of the game for them, but we weren't able to secure them.

And it was a night we needed some offensive rebounds so we weren't on the defensive end so long. And their time of possession was off the charts if we went back and looked at it. Blair.

Yeah, it's a good thing. Whether we played poorly and won, whether we played poorly and lost, whether we played great and won, our mindset is good. Whatever happens, we're going to respond to it the right way. I do think, you know, I heard a good friend say this the other day, it's like your grass growing.

You don't realize it needs cut until you take a couple days off and then you see it and it's growing and you need to cut your grass. Our grass was probably growing a little bit under our feet. We weren't quite as active or determined and our processes haven't been as good lately. And like I said, it's been 4 games since we felt like we played really well and with the competitive spirit we need to do what we want to do.

Now it'll be how do we respond to this? It's a great time for us to go on the road and grow together and become more accountable to each other as a group. And so we're obviously this one stings, but we're excited to see if we can bounce back because our season's so long.