Ed DeChellis Win Quotations

When we came to town, it wasn't a (guaranteed) win anymore. You're gonna have to work hard and play well to beat us.

I think it's been a different team and different feel from start to finish. It helps when you win some games, too, along the way. You don't have those stretches where you don't win for a month and it just wears on you. So I think that has helped our morale tremendously.

We've come a long, long way from really not competing to competing and having a chance to win games. Hopefully, good things will continue for us on the horizon.

My big concern now is, we can't let a situation where we had a nice win on the road be the highlight of the season. Beginning today, we need to refocus on what we're all about and that's the last seven games, and trying to get better in practice every day.

We've had some wins to kind of pick us up when we needed it.

We have a lot of firsts this year. We hadn't won a road game in several years and we won three. We hadn't had a winning record in a few years and now we have a winning record. I think we've built a foundation and now have to put the sides up. We just have to keep moving. I feel great about our kids and where we're going.

We have to do certain things in order for us to win games. And if we don't do those certain things, we're not going to be able to win.

You're not going to win many games shooting 25 percent. I thought offensively we were just really bad tonight.

It was hard the first two years trying to get guys to believe we could win. Guys left who didn't believe we could win or didn't want to win. We're a very young team. We're loaded with freshmen and sophomores in terms of numbers, but I think we're finally starting to coach and put some things together.

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

I talked to the team about building on the Indiana win. We didn't do that (after) the Illinois win. I tried to get them to under one win can lead to another win, and we'll work hard Monday to understand that this win could lead to another win.

It's a very important win for us. Our kids did a nice job. But it doesn't validate our season.