Dee Brown Played Quotations

I hang with E.B. (Halsey), Mel (Melvin Bryant) and J.D. (Jason Davis). I beat them in video games, and they beat me in video games. Those are my guys. They know I played football and that I have a special love for football. Illinois is a football school as well as a basketball school, so I have to show them respect.

We came out and played well in the first half. We just didn't finish them off in the second half.

We just didn't finish the job. They came out and played the good zone and it really affected us tonight.

We could have played better. We didn't play our best, but we stuck it out and we won.

We've got stars, you just don't know them yet. It takes a little time. Last year wasn't a grind, but you probably thought we played well when we beat someone by 20. Maybe we should have won by 40.

There are a lot of positives we can take away from this one. We really played well.

Five rebounds, five assists, no turnovers. He played solid. He always plays solid.

They made it tough. They bumped and they played physical. But I missed some shots, too.

We were really disappointed with our performance at the end. Don't let my words fool you, we'll take a road win, but we should have played the last 10 minutes better.