I'm from Peoria so I've heard about (Bradley basketball). Never have I heard the amount of volume that's been going around Peoria.

They were really aggressive and up on you. They were reaching a lot. They never adapted to the way the game was being called.

They came out really aggressive. They allowed themselves to get easy buckets to start the game.

They can't say now, with two teams in the Sweet 16, that we're overrated with too many (four) bids. We proved by our teams that we're successful.

There were a lot of people writing us off, who didn't think we should be here. But we're still standing.

You never want it to end. Now that it has, you feel really down that you couldn't get that one more game. But it was a privilege to have this opportunity, and I'm proud Bradley basketball has done what it's done.

We feel like we have a little more desire than to win just one game. We want to show the world what we can do.

We were roommates. We came in together. We did a lot of things together.

We knew we could guard them, if we just worked on their tendencies and made them go to their weaknesses. We know they were scoreless for a while and that was definitely a confidence builder.

That was the coaches' idea for us to go up and thank them. It was a great feeling to let them know we appreciate their coming all this way, staying with us during the season.