Dustin Maguire Quotations

He's a special kid for us. You've got two Division I basketball players. You've got E.J. Jones getting all the attention in football and Joe is already getting the attention. Then there's Mark doing his job every day, coming in and just putting in the hard work just like everybody else and not really asking anything in return.

He definitely helped my love for the game and my competitiveness. He's taught me everything I know and he's done a good job of helping me along the way.

Spencer's definitely our leader, on and off the court, by example. He doesn't yell. I don't think we need any of that.

Spencer doesn't have to shoot and score to make plays for us. He's our leader. I've said that before and I didn't know he wasn't scoring because he does so many other things so well.

The fans were getting into the game after that three. So that run that Mark gave us was huge in stopping them from getting back in the game.

He's so smart he knows that it's maybe more important here to run an extra 45 seconds off the clock rather than to get those two points and give them (the opponents) another possession. Mark's always been a guy that's been there for us. You won't find that on a lot of teams.

We realized it was an important game for us because an opportunity for an undefeated season doesn't come along very often. And we didn't want to let that pass us by.

There could have been guys that went the other way with that. (But) they welcomed me from Day One. They embraced me and accepted me. It was a great group of guys. Looking back on it, you realize how special it was.

Alton has a great team. You've got to give them a lot of credit. They came out here and played on our court and came out to win. They matched our intensity right from the beginning.

I want to work on my overall strength and quickness. It's a guard-oriented conference (Big East). I want to be able to step in right away and be a difference-maker.