173 Quotes by John Beilein

I'm trying to stress with (my team) how good this win is.

Right now our kids don't care how banged up they are. They know what's at stake.

Pitt played tremendous defense on us. We did our best to open looks. It was hard to get them. They frustrate you.

In games like this there are little three or four minute spans when you've got to be mentally tough enough when that other team is really challenging you. They're distracting your game and you can't give in and I thought we gave in a couple of times and it will be a great thing for us to learn from.

I know they have a lot to gain. But we're going in with a lot to gain, too, as far as momentum for the tournament.

(Marshall) played a great game and they're getting better every day. I thought they just played excellent defense on us. We did all of the things we wanted to do to get open shots and they just didn't go in.

It felt like 10 years ago that we had beaten a really good team. We didn't have that quality win yet.

I know very little about Southern Illinois, but I'll know a lot in the next couple days. The Missouri Valley Conference has strong teams in the tournament every year.

I think he has to dunk on you, like two times, before you realize you're playing against a giant of a man. Hicks is as good a player as there is in the league and certainly a player who will merit (All-Big East) first-team considerations.