Kyle Williams

“They were saying that if I play on it right now while it's still swollen, it could get to a Grade 3, and that would require surgery,” Ball said. “Trying to avoid that, obviously. Let the swelling go down and hopefully tape it up and get back to it.”

“If we stick with our pace and play the whole game, eventually it'll break through for us on the offensive end,” guard Zach LaVine said.

“I'd only dreamed of one day racing in the cup series, let alone winning [NASCAR Cup Series] races,” said Reddick, who races for Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin’s 23XI racing. “Driving for someone like [co-owners] Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin is pretty unreal. It's a pinch yourself type of…

“It's a newer team,” said senior guard Aubrey Galvan, who is committed to Vanderbilt. “We lost Kelsey and Paige, other players, but we're still going to work as hard as we did last year. We're not going to let last year's success define us. We're going to make a whole new story with this team. I'm…

“It would mean the world because that was the number one goal, even coming into high school, be a state champ,” Illinois commit Destiny Jackson said. “That would just complete my high school experience.”

“There's going to be times in the game where there's a guy against a player in space and there’s an individual pride component that comes into really having to sit down and guard the ball with the level of discipline," Donovan said.

“It's just a compete thing; you got to compete at a higher level,” guard Coby White said. “We got to be more physical. We got to take a stand; giving up 140-plus in back-to-back games is unacceptable. It's embarrassing, it's a disservice to the organization, a disservice to the fanbase.”

“[Jones] has done a great job so far this year running the power play,” defenseman Alex Vlasic said. “I've been able to watch him for a couple of years now and see what he does up there and try to copy what he can do as much as possible.”

“Those two guys are so reliable in our own end so we were able to get out of that,” Bedard said. “They're good at handling pucks and, obviously, [Dickinson] finding open spots. They both command the puck and go get the puck and that makes it easier to play.”

“One goal I really have for us is to go undefeated,” senior forward Diann Jackson said. “I'm really looking forward to going undefeated this year and winning it all.'