14 Quotes by Alan Johnston

We are in the single-elimination tournament point right now, and I don't think our kids are ready to be eliminated. I know this means something to this basketball team and they are going to come out and play like it means something.

Tim's team played with a lot of intensity. We should have had that kind of intensity. I have 13 juniors who don't know how to see forward, yet.

The good thing about this team is on any given night someone can go off and score a lot of points. We are not a one-dimensional team. We've had nine different people as leading scorers in games, and that speaks volumes.

It was scary when you look at a bunch of teenagers and tell them that one of their friends has got something wrong with a cyst or a tumor, and no one knew at that time how bad it was. It kind of sent a shockwave through the team. We stopped practice immediately and circled up, held hands and prayed.

It was good to go against a different style than what we've been seeing. They had good size, but the big key for us was that we dominated the glass. They pressed us whether they made it or missed it, and we did a good job being aggressive through their press.