Dan DeRose Quotations

He just has so much potential. He's so strong he can score inside against bigger guys, but he's also probably our second-best shooter. And now that we're seeing bigger teams that's important because if he can hit a couple outside shots he'll pull those guys away from the basket.

We've never hosted a game of this magnitude.

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

When you shoot like that you aren't going to have success. All season long we have relied on our defense to get us going, but in the first half we weren't making shots so we couldn't get into our press.

It got physical, which we knew it would. What sealed the game for us were two steals toward the end.

We talked about the fact that they are a pattern offense and they like to shoot the 3 and we just let them set up and they could run their sets. One of our things is to not let teams that are systematic run their offenses. We kind of mixed up our presses. It makes you take time off the clock.

I don't know when a game of this magnitude will be played in this gym again.

He is a very strong kid. They probably should have went to him a little earlier maybe in the first half.