Quotes by Mike Strong

“Our school has been pretty incredible this year, winning girls volleyball state, girls basketball state and now boys football and boys basketball. So that says a lot about the kids.”

“Theyre just so long inside and big. We werent doing a very good job of ball faking early on. Then we began to ball fake and then we began to attack a little more.”

“We turned it around defensively. We started trapping a little and turned them over and gave us some easy looks, and that definitely helped.”

“We matched up well with them. We were able to push them back off that 3-point line and make them shoot deeper than they probably would have liked.”

“A lot of our kids won a football state title this year. If they (officials) let us play, were happy because were aggressive.”

“We just did a nice job handling their pressure.”

“We want to expand where we dont have retail capabilities. (We) want to provide full service to all of our clients across the region.”

“I remember a lot of teams in their first Final Four winning it all.”

“We obviously got pushed out of our offense and we didnt execute very well. Ive got to do a better job as a coach ... but these kids have responded to everything weve done and I think they responded to everything tonight.”

“I was concerned that we had used a lot of effort to come back. We need to get stronger as a team. I was very calm at halftime, but I was very concerned.”