I feel very honored to be here. There are a lot of people in a lot of different sports at this event. If you win this, it's a very great achievement.

Tennessee is on the rise. It's been known for football, but basketball is also very good. I think we set the bar really high.

It took a load off our shoulders when they put the rule in, not having to worry about making the jump. It's also going to help us out, going to college and getting stronger and getting better. All of us are going to be playing under legendary coaches. It's going to be great.

This was the toughest schedule we had to go up against. We played a lot of games this season, but that prepared us for the state tournament. You have to play three games in a row to win the tournament and playing the type of schedule we had definitely helped our conditioning.

We really didn't know what to expect. We just kept getting better and kept working hard.

We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes.