The Saint Louis University Billikens will play Michigan State today at 2:45 p.m. EST. The game will be televised on CBS.

SLU Billikens

“The game plan is kinda of the same from the Memphis game, we have to stop their transition, stop their bigs and we have a nice defensive game plan for that,” -Jordair Jett

“We’ll send me, Brian, and Cory through Draymond Green and if we all do a pretty good job for 40 minutes, I think we will be able to win the game,” -Dwayne Evans

“They’re very up?and?down transition.  They play in transition.  Point guard, No.11, he’s very athletic.  Also great shooters.  Like No.30, Wood, and No.13.  Their guard play is very good,” -Kwamain Mitchell

“It’s going to be with putting a body on them, definitely, rebounding?wise.  It’s going to be scrapping for loose balls.  It’s not going to be myself getting a bunch of rebounds.  It’s going to be me getting Draymond off the board,” -Brian Conklin

“Green is a great collegiate player.  He has a triple double last night.  And looking at like, say, six films, Green has hit a trail transition 3 in every one.  And in every single film, too, he’s caught, swept and drive.  He’s unselfish.  Sometimes to a fault,” -Rick Majerus

Michigan State Spartans

“So I don’t think it will be that big of a challenge for us if they want to play dirty or come out and try to make it a physical game.  That’s how we play all summer.  That’s what we built our program around,” -Draymond Green

“Being the point guard, you always have a very important role.  Because the team goes, the point guard goes. I’m going to have to play a very solid game, control my team,” – Keith Appling

“Saint Louis is a very, very good defensive team.  They’ve done a great job all year dictating how they want to play both on the offense and defensive side.  But if they’re going to take away our perimeter shooting, it opens it up for our bigs on the inside, and that’s really our strength is getting the ball inside and relying on them to make decisions whether to go up or kick the ball out,” – Austin Thornton

“I compare them more to a not a Wisconsin from the standpoint of they grind you, they get after you defensively.  They’re solid.  They don’t make a lot of mistakes.  Offensively they run a ton of ball screens and create some problems. So we’re concerned about some of our matchups, but on the other side of it we think a big key is going to be Mitchell and containing him,” -Tom Izzo