I told (Craig) before the semifinal that I needed eight rebounds from him and he ended up with three. I told him it would be OK if he got the eight tonight, and I know he had more than that. He was big on the boards.

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If we can't handle their pressure, we're not going to win. Our guard play has been pretty good. It's been the backbone of our team.

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We just kind of flew under the radar all season. But if you ask any coach, I don't think they'd put us there. At least not now.

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Oakley definitely bothered us at the basket. I was pretty pleased with our defense, but offensively we just never had a flow. But I'm very proud of this group for getting here.

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Our best strength is we probably don't have a lot of weaknesses. We can dribble, we can shoot, we can defend and we can rebound.

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