145 Quotes by Ed DeChellis

No one thought we could win except the 12 guys we have and three coaches. There was more pressure on their side.

They're very big, and we can't change that, so we've got to figure out what we need to do to try to play the other end of it. We'll try to bring our posts away from the basket, make them guard on the perimeter maybe a little bit more than they're used to.

If we get those two guys going, we've just got to get some guard production.

I don't have any reason, there is no excuse.

I didn't want them to have that little breathing room. I wanted to try to keep this close as we possibly can.

There was no pressure on us; we're just coming down and playing. No one thought we could win, other than the 12 guys we've got and three or four coaches. There were 16 thousand people who thought Illinois would win.

Basically we've started to change the view of our program nationally. We've had three or four bad years, and then I think we've changed the perception of that.

There were a lot of tears tears of joy finally, not of sadness. These kids have been through a lot, but they keep coming back for more. They've been very resilient all year.

I'm anxious to see how our team responds.