John Beilein Kevin Quotations

He's getting there, ... It's going to take a lot of hard work. Our hope is that Kevin will be able to outrun and out-condition the centers we play against. He's going to play a lot of minutes if he can do that.

Kevin is younger than most of our seniors, and some men could not handle all the attention the way he has. He is a very special person.

Kevin came in here on a mission. I thought we were a little bit out of character at Pitt. We probably tried to do a little bit too much and probably didn't realize what good defense Pitt plays. We took shots we thought were good and they weren't because Pitt guards you.

I thought we put on a pretty good clinic for most of the game. Kevin is really playing well and developing into a complete player.

We started to shoot too quickly, maybe we played too smart and stopped attacking. We had good shots and didn't make them and that other team was charging. Then Kevin hit that big shot we really needed, the big dagger.

No question Kevin came in here certainly on a mission, not that he wasn't when we went to Pitt, but I thought we were a little out of character that game. We tried probably to do too much and we didn't realize how good their defense is and we took shots that we thought were good shots, but in retrospect, they weren't because Pitt guards you. This time, Kevin was a little more patient and the result -- he scores 26 more points than he did the first time.

I told Kevin when we were warming up for the second half that I was going to hit four three-pointers,

If he can't play because he's got to make a delivery or whatever, we'll play on through it. We want Kevin and Heather to have a healthy baby, and we prefer that much more than a healthy game.