Andrew Strait Quotations

Obviously, the seeding is based on a lot of different things. They were a great team, they played in a tough league, they've beaten a lot of good teams this year.

I don't think we've seen such an athletic team over the course of the year. And obviously not someone as big and strong down low as Craig Smith.

He's a big, physical guy. You can't leave him for a minute. A lot of his points came on second shots.

He's a great player. There's not much you can do. He shoots it really pure and he can take you off the dribble ... He's just a great player and a great guy.

He's a great player, somebody definitely in the clutch that you want handling the ball. We played pretty good defense on him. We had two guys on him there at the end, but he was able to step through and throw something up. We were lucky that it didn't fall.

I think they took us a little bit for granted.

It feels great to win a first-round game. It was just a real team concept today. We knew we would have to play hard and it worked out for us.

When we play like we're capable, we know we can play with anyone. We jumped at em right from the start and played 40 minutes of basketball. We played hard and we played as a team.

We all feel pretty good about it. We worked hard. We knew what we were capable of doing. We came out tonight and played 40 minutes start to finish. We know when we play that well that anything can happen.

Boston College is a really tough team, obviously. Really athletic and big and strong. But we're going to come out ready to play.

Once the place got rocking a little bit we got some intensity on defense.

It was a really tough game, physically and emotionally.

It's his alma mater. He's a Montana guy. The entire community's behind him ... I know everyone on the team wanted him to stay. It's just real comforting to hear the news.

It's nice to have a couple of coaches who've played the same position. I've watched a lot of tape and tried to work on my game.

It's some really good news, actually. We had a lot of success last year and next year we hope to have even more ... Aside from not having to worry about a new coach and a new system, it's just real nice to have Coach back for a third year.

Once I got out on the floor I felt really good. Seeing my first two shots go down was definitely a boost of confidence.

I'm sure he's going to get his. We'll do all we can to limit him.

I don't think they knew what was going on. I think they had to come down to earth a little bit.

The crowd, it was great. You couldn't ask for much more. It felt a little bit like home.