11 Quotes by Royce Huseman

He had to learn how to be a selfless player. He had no structure in the past, so he was pretty raw. He went through some growing pains, but he's just getting better and better now.

We really relied on Nic to handle a lot of the scoring (early in the year). He had to make up for a lot of the big shooters that we lost to graduation. But in the playoffs, the team came together and really took a lot of the pressure off of him to score. So he could go out there and make plays and just be Nic.

We have kids that need to be in that situation (against a tougher opponent). They haven't been battle-tested, and there's not a better team that could do that than one like (Wheeler) who has been there, too.

We are really playing together as a team at this point. And that's really taken shape in the playoffs.

This team did an excellent job trying to take us out of what we do well. They changed up defenses and kept us guessing. But we know (today's final) is going to be much more physical.

We did a lot of things wrong last year. Really, we didn't know what we were doing. We're on the bus to go to the tournament and remembering something that we didn't do, a detail we forgot to take care of.

They missed a few free throws late to keep us in it. But it was hard to lose Mike at that point.

It just shows you don't have to win a district championship to win a state title. We played a tough schedule this year and took our losses and learned from them.

It was a great season, and we really played like a team. When you lose like that, it hurts for a long time. But when you win like that, it gets you ready for the next season. We've been there before.