Column: No. 1 seed Illinois leaves the NCAA Tournament with unfulfilled promises and a wasted opportunity. Ayo Dosunmu will be a legend, but this team will be remembered for a second-round loss.

“I’m hopefully remembered as the guy that really helped turn this program around,” he said. “That’s what it’s all about. When I came here to Illinois, I came here to, of course, try to win a national championship. But my main goal was to help get this program back on the map, help get this program back as one of the national powerhouses. We didn’t get it done today, but at the end of the day, this group of guys, there’s no other team I want to go to war with.”