They have to understand this Nokomis team is a great offensive rebounding team. It's not brain surgery. You just have to do things fundamentally to keep them off the boards.

It's always been special when we go to Peoria, but I would be a liar if I said this one wasn't special because of my son. But all of these kids are like my son.

There's no better time than March Madness in Illinois high school basketball. It's too bad the IHSA had to mess with it and try to fix what isn't broken.

Evans plays defense well for a freshman and that comes from being well-coached. He's a coaches kid, so he should be good on defense. But all of their players play good defense.

This team has met and exceeded all of my expectations. Most of these kids were undefeated as a JV team. But I did not return a single varsity starter. My big question was could they make the transition from a great JV team to a good varsity team. I'd have to say they've turned into a great varsity team.

We had three turnovers real quick to open the quarter and took a couple of quick shots. They got a four-point lead and went to that four corners and that was it.

We don't want to create a hardship on anybody currently working.

Our guys started celebrating and didn't realize how much time was left.

I think this Edwardsville team is the best team I've seen in this tournament in a long time.

I think it was defense, I don't think it was nerves. I think it was defense.