Trevor Doughty Quotations

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

I thought we had a great defensive effort. The kids kept their poise whenever they were being very deliberate with the basketball. They stayed very composed.

I think they already had our attention. Effingham is always a tough game. They're 13-10. We haven't lost to a team with a losing record this year. We haven't lost to a bad team, and Effingham certainly isn't a bad team.

To look at positives, we have a record of 4-0 in the conference. We're 9-4 overall and we have another big tournament at Salem coming up.

We worked against them pressing like that. It wasn't like something we didn't prepare for. It was a team effort, I'll say that. We all had trouble against it.

What I tried to tell the kids is one game doesn't make a season. Eighteen wins, that's something to be proud of.

We just need to get a win, any win. We have nine games left to play. Like I told the kids, the Urbana game is important for us to get a better regional seed.

There's not much to say after one like that. They played very well. They just outplayed us.

That No. 4 the coach's son was tough. Dane did a good job on him. Ross had a good game, and Andrew did, too.

They play great defense and it's tough. They're big, and they're quick. That's the combination that's tough to deal with.

It's going to be a tough game for us. They're a much tougher team than their record shows. They played Mount Vernon close and Bloomington close.

Not after I saw them play. I'd seen they have the kind of team that can be (undefeated). They pass the ball very well, and coach Waldo does a great job with them. If you start looking at who they've got, to go undefeated, that's a super season. They've taken on all comers.

They capitalized on every mistake. Every time we made a turnover, they scored on it. I think the key to the game was their offensive rebounding. Every time we did a good job defensively and looked like we were going to get a stop, they got an offensive rebound and put it back in.

They hit tough shot after tough shot after tough shot. We had guys guarding them. We switched different guys on them, but they were just right there on. It wasn't as if the shots were uncontested.

If he doesn't play the way he does, we're not even in that situation. He had a great game. That free throw didn't win or lose the ball game. There were plays throughout the game ... where it's a turnover or we don't block out, it's a mental mistake. You can't just boil it right down to the end.

He can get up and down the floor. We didn't do that a lot, but I think he can fit into that. We played him a lot with his back to the basket. He came up with some big 3-point shots in his career. That's one part of his game that's still in a developmental stage.