33 Quotes by Brian Clodi

You get forced to take chances when you're down six, eight with four minutes to go.

Every three was a dagger. There was no way we could respond to that. He was Superman tonight.

There's not a lot of teams around the state of Illinois that can say they have that type schedule left. We have it (tough schedule) for a reason. We want to be tournament tested and tournament ready.

That play (block) took the air out of Elgin.

That's who we wanted (to play). They're playing great basketball. We're excited.

They're the defending (tournament) champs. We've seen them and they're not a 12 seed.

They got it down to four, but we closed out the game well. We didn't turn the ball over, we did all the things needed to win.

They had only two field goals (a pair of three-pointers out of East's zone defense from Pat Cummings) in the fourth quarter. They had 21 free throws. That's what beat us. That's where we got beat. Our team knows it.

It's a good win, especially after we had a tough defeat (in the Feb. 21 semifinals) against Larkin. We wanted to play for a championship, but we'll take third place. Elgin has been playing great basketball, but we just found a way to win.