Kevin Keen Quotes (18 Quotes)

She's a talented young lady and will be impossible to replace.

Ellie went to the basket hard (all weekend). She was hungry. I think she wanted this state title more than anything. She did a great job.

My hat's off to New London. They played a great game and battled hard. They really battled Ellie (Radke) hard in the post. It was one of those games where we knew it was going to be a battle.

After coming close the last two years, this is special.

Having done this 18 years, I'm realistic enough to know that you need a few breaks along the way.

About 3 minutes left I took a timeout and I just told them that we have to get back to playing as a team. I think they took it to heart...they know what got us here and from that point on we took control.

Everybody stepped up tonight. You hope to get those performances from your key players in big games.

We took them out of their comfort zone. I was really happy with the way our defense played all night.

As long as we take care of business, we can't do anything worse than tie.

To play the way we did for two days in a row . . . things just went our way again today.

It's going to be tough to see her go. She has been a consistent player for us for four years. She made a great impact not only on our basketball program but on our community, too.

When you make shots, it's a pretty easy game.

It takes hard work. It takes a little luck. It takes a break here and there to get to the state tournament. There were some undefeated teams like Elkhorn that didn't make it. It's not as easy as people think.

We did a nice job defensively. When you hold a team like Edgewood to 36 points, you're doing a good job.

That's us right there. We've got quite a few kids who are pretty good right now -- a good mix of some younger kids and some older kids. We have to play that way. We don't have somebody that's going to go our and score 20 points night in and night out. We just don't. But we have a team that if we play together can be very successful.

It was a good ball game. You want to head into the tournament playing good basketball. I thought we played well tonight.

You always hope you can get up here. The last two years we really had high hopes. Not that we didn't this year, but to go undefeated in the regular season two years in a row and not get to the state tournament was disappointing. That makes this extra satisfying.

It's a chance to get a little accustomed to the surroundings, but it will be different with several thousand people in here on Friday afternoon. Part of it, though, is getting a little bit of the excitement of being here out of the way, from when we walk in here for the first time.