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Brad Underwood Trent Frazier Giorgi Bezhanishvili Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Thursday March 14, 2019 Brad Underwood Trent Frazier through a really tough year, and I know these guys are tough, and I know they would give everything out there Giorgi Bezhanishvili on the floor. I was just so confident in them. I really felt like we were going to win the game, and we did. It Press Conference was just a great feeling. Illinois - 74, Northwestern - 69 Q. Trent, this is your second go through of the Big Ten tournament. Just speak a little bit about the COACH UNDERWOOD: Really, really proud of our difference in the field in the locker room between team tonight. There were a lot of things that didn't go last year's team and this year's team? particularly well throughout the course of the ballgame TRENT FRAZIER: Coming into this game, you know, and yet we kept just hanging in. these guys throughout the season we've been fighting a lot. We've been through a lot of adversity. I was very Northwestern was terrific. Chris should be nothing but confident we were going to come out here tonight and extremely proud of his guys. Law's out, and to rally, play as hard as we can and try to move to the next which is something that usually happens. You lose a round. guy and everybody steps up, and rallies and they did that. They're to be commended, because they fought I can't really compare the last year. This is a way and competed. different team. Like I said, these guys are unbelievable. We come to practice every day ready to The game was probably about as ugly a first half as compete and get after it, get after each other, and you're ever going to see, and yet it was Giorgi was we've been successful throughout parts of the season. tremendous. We felt like he got really good looks in the We're hoping, you know, to continue to move up in the last game that he played, they just didn't go down. We round. want to go back at him. Obviously 12 of 15 is something we tried to do tonight. Q. It took you a little while to get going tonight. Then Trent, I'm really proud of him. His four game, no What did you have to do out there? What did you turnovers, 40-plus minutes, and then obviously a see in the second half down the stretch that couple of big shots down the stretch. allowed you to get going? TRENT FRAZIER: I kind of let the game come to me. I But to miss the lay-up at the end and then have them didn't want to force any shots. Just play my game, do open the overtime with the three probably is the thing what I do. Like I said, the team, they trust me down the that makes me the happiest. It would have been very, stretch to make a play for myself and my teammates. very easy to just roll over and lay down, and we just That's what I did. These younger guys, they're kept hanging in there. We kept running really good incredible. offense. Got the ball where it was. We didn't have Giorgi, and trying to hit the three. Ayo hits the three, I think the biggest thing for us tonight is when Giorgi and really proud of our guys for just being tough fouled out, we didn't let that bother us. We had a lot of enough to handle that. confidence. Every time coach was asking us, you know, where the dogs at, where the dogs at, you know. Q. Giorgi, after having such a big game, what was it We took that personally, huddled each other up, and like watching from the sidelines in overtime? What we locked in on defense, and we got stops. did you see from your guys and what were you Q. Giorgi, what were your emotions in overtime doing? GIORGI BEZHANISHVILI: I was just really excited. I watching that? couldn't really put it in words. I was so excited. At the GIORGI BEZHANISHVILI: I was just excited for my same time I was so confident with any guys because I teammates to be out there, you know, and I saw the knew they would leave all out there. We've been look in their faces in the timeout. I was like, yeah, I'm not worried. We're going to win this game. I was so Rev #1 by #170 at 2019-03-14 04:20:00 GMT page 1 of 3 confident in my teammates because I saw the look. the year? Is it a theme? I get what it means, but Once you see that look in the faces of the players, you I'm just wondering. know they're doing their thing out there. Trent hits one COACH UNDERWOOD: Yeah, it's a competitive three, Ayo hits a three, we get the stops. It was a great phrase that I like to use, and I've got a couple others I feeling. can't repeat. But you know, it's a way to challenge these guys. It's something that they can rally about it in Q. Giorgi, you mentioned when you saw that look, a moment. In the timeout of the game, you know, it's a was there a point in the overtime when you felt focus point of knowing what I'm thinking about, not just pretty confident that you were going to win this the Xs and Os. game? GIORGI BEZHANISHVILI: Right after the buzzer, the Q. Can you compare Giorgi before to Giorgi now? last buzzer we felt confident. Right after that buzzer. I COACH UNDERWOOD: Probably don't have enough just saw that look, you know, when the guys sat down, time, but, yeah, here's a guy that to go do that on this you know, coach was drawing something up, and I stage in this moment, he's light years. He's come so looked at the guys and I was like, yeah, that's it. far. (Inaudible). Ten days ago, two weeks ago, whenever we played them, Pardon really had his Q. Coming off a game where you only took two number. He's taken that challenge himself. shots at Penn State, and maybe you weren't playing your best basketball, did you feel like you Pardon's an elite defender, and he got to his spots. He needed to step up tonight? What was kind of key got a little frustrated early because he got knocked off to you rising up? his spots a couple times, but we did a great job getting TRENT FRAZIER: I don't determine shots in the game. him the ball. His maturity has changed the most from Whoever got it going, that's who we're going to get the day one. ball to. Fortunately that was me tonight. My teammates did an unbelievable job of finding me and Q. What's it mean for your team not to -- to lose five trusting me to make big shots down the stretch. Shots, or six, and lose the opening round, to survive and you know, it doesn't matter how many shots I take. I'm advance? going to play what coach wants us to do, run the COACH UNDERWOOD: It's the next round. We've got offense, and just be a good point guard out there. And to move on. I think there will probably be some I was making some shots tonight, and I got it going. So positives in that at some point. Right now I've been I continued to be aggressive and I was successful. sitting in the back. Coming out here, working on Iowa and all their stuff. It's not the time to reflect on that. Q. Chris mentioned in the postgame that the overtime is when you felt that Vic Law's absence I think our opponents had some of that. I didn't think was maybe felt the most, because you look down a we played great tonight. I thought we played actually wing defender. Obviously, Giorgi had a great better in a game or two when they got beat. But, yeah, game, but was that match-up something that would it's important to win. There is no doubt about that. have helped you in overtime if you had those These guys need to feel what this is all about. You guards and they played really well? only need a little tidal wave or a ripple to create a tidal COACH UNDERWOOD: Well, I think it was a factor. I wave, so we'll see. thought the one thing that Vic continued and has done throughout his career is not just be a good offensive Q. Coach, you expanded your rotation a lot in the player. He's been a guy that's been very, very good first half. I'm not sure you envisioned overtime defensively. The more film I've watched of them, the necessarily. But do you think when it got to more impressed I've become with Gaines. He's an overtime, the minutes you conserved in the first elite defender. You know, Turner has size, and Kopp half made a difference in the overtime? has size. They did a really good job especially on Ayo COACH UNDERWOOD: I hope so.
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