So we had meetings and wrote essays, and then we each read them out aloud. We wanted practice to be not so serious.

Last year, we probably held back a little. We only had three seniors. This year, we were telling our younger players to push forward when they think they can't.

He would be in our meetings, then run out to take batting practice. Even if he couldn't go out on the (football) field, he would try to come see us and he would come in on his own time and study film.

We were the only people who believed we could make it this far. Hopefully we'll do it again. That's the dream.

I didn't notice I had 12 rebounds. We were just blocking out. We have to do that or we will get chewed out. We have a lot of beasts on the boards on this team.

Nobody expected this, but us. It started when we were only a fifth seed in the SAC tournament. We started with the little things, like winning the SAC and sectional and built from there.