Chris Savage Quotations

(Steubenville) made 25 turnovers against West Muskingum in the last game. We wanted to really force our tempo. We wanted to expose all their weaknesses and we really did a good job pressuring them into bad mistakes.

It feels very good (to have the CCL clinched). Last year we had to go to the wire with Ready. This year to get it with two games left in an eight-game season is great.

I thought a three- or four-minute spurt would win this for us, and it didn't. Their defense wouldn't let us do that.

We didn't play our best and they did. We couldn't force turnovers. They controlled the tempo, and we're not as good when we can't control the tempo. We played our worst game of the year.

As happy as we are to win district, we're not happy enough yet, I guess.

We handled Watterson pretty well the first time, but they're much-improved and are very young.

Anytime you can finish undefeated in the CCL, you have to be happy. We had a little hiccup (in a 51-47 loss to Pickerington North on Feb. 4). We've kind of rededicated the season to the fundamentals and doing things that helped us become successful. We still don't feel like we've played our best ball.

It really doesn't matter who we play, all the teams are going to be good at this level. We just have to come out and play like we did (last Tuesday). We have to stay focused and play four quarters of basketball.

We've scouted them a few times. They have a lot of good athletes. They're in a tough league (City League-North Division). We drew a tough opponent.

We really feel at this point that we have as good a chance as anyone to win state.