Kevin Dillard Quotations

He helped take some pressure off me with me being a sophomore coming in. He showed me the ropes and with a young team that helped us a lot.

We looked at the schedule and saw it was Lincoln-Way East. They're not ranked and you kind of underestimate teams. That's when you get upset.

Our big boys took over the game. They stepped up and showed why they're the leaders of the team.

Our coach told us defense would be the difference tonight. We made it a point to come out and challenge every dribble.

People just focus on me and Andre. But we've got a lot of other people that can play. The rest of the team does the dirty work. That really helps us out.

We came out a little slow. We weren't making our shots, things weren't going our way. But we've got to learn to fight through that.

The opportunity came and I made the best of it.

After losing to them, it just puts a feeling in my heart to work harder. We really wanted to win this tournament, but they earned it. They had great confidence and determination. They kept telling me this was their tournament, and I'm just a little guy. I'm just going to learn from it and see what I can do.

It might be one of the best games we've had at the start. We've got to set the tone early (because) it's playoff time. Everybody wanted to find the open man. That's how you win championships.

They hit mostly all their shots. They got out on the break, they ran. Everything we wanted to do going into the game, they did.

I have no idea what happened. I think his back hit my knee.

In practice, Andre(senior forward Walker)always tells me I never give him a chance to dunk in a game.

(H-F coach Jim McLaughlin) told me at halftime to just calm down. I was just glad I got that chance at the end.