Trent Strickland Quotations

The ref didn't see it. I tried to take the charge, but I didn't get the call. Then the ball bounced off my foot, but I guess the ref either didn't see it or didn't want to see it. It was good either way.

We've got to play with a hunger. We've got to want a win and we've got to get a win.

I thought we had the game secured. But I guess that's when we all started thinking that. I just think we got a little relaxed and our defensive intensity wasn't at its highest peak.

I thought we had the game secure, but we got a little relaxed and our defensive intensity wasn't at its highest peak, and they took advantage of it.

I think we got a little bit comfortable. We didn't have the intensity we had at the beginning. They took advantage and came back.

You know what? The only thing we can do is keep fighting. If we're going to go down, we're going down with a swing. We're not just going to sit there and let people just trample on us. We're going to get up and go fight back.

We probably need (Gray) to be 22 for 22. We all know that can't happen every night, and we're going to need different players to step up.

This year was a little disappointing but I had a great career at Wake Forest and wouldn't trade it for anything. I've hired an agent in Matt Nelson from Houston and after graduation I'll be heading to Houston to work-out and get myself in shape.

We've got a chance to come out and keep flying. As long as we're winning and still have this feeling, then I think we should stay airborne.

We're supposed to be a rebounding team and that just showed that they were tougher than we were out there.

We focused on him in the scouting report and in practice. We just didn't come out and do a good job like we should have by listening to the coaches about making him dribble and take it to the basket.

We showed a lot of heart. We seniors talked a lot about giving it all we had and leaving everything on the floor. We've thought all year that we were better than we have showed.

We didn't have the intensity that we had at the beginning of the game. They took advantage of it and came back.

(Prosser) called the play for Justin, and I was looking for him. I glanced up and there were only three seconds left, so I knew I had to do something.

You might laugh when I say this, but I guess it's like your wife having a newborn. You hold it in your hands for the first time and get that exciting feeling to be a father. It's just exciting for us to continue to keep this run going. It can't be any better than this.

It was supposed to come to me. But it didn't get to me.

It's like hitting rock bottom. But the family I grew up in, my parents always told me, it only rains so many days before the sun can shine again. I just think here pretty soon the sun is going to start back shining on us.

No matter what we say, the stats show they played harder and were the tougher team today.

It was off my foot. I guess the ref didn't see it, or didn't want to see it, which is good both ways for us.

They came out from the jump wanting to win. They crashed the boards hard, they did everything a lot harder than we did. ... They just wanted this game harder than we did tonight.

I'm really surprised. I thought we'd have a better record than we have. At the same time, if you don't play harder than your opponent, then you don't deserve to win. On some of our losses, our opponents have outplayed us and they deserved to win.

I'm really surprised. If you don't play harder than your opponent, you don't deserve to win.

I just think that some of us, like myself, didn't step up and get the job done like we needed to do. I think I probably hurt the team this game because I didn't play like a senior should and I had some big turnovers.

I just think it's effort. I think the biggest thing we're missing is heart.

I don't think it had anything to do with it. I think they just played harder than we did and they wanted it more than we did.

He actually took a couple on me. I kind of get defensive when a person scores on me, so I was saying to myself, in my mind, that he was not going to score, no matter what happens.

You can't really double-down on N.C. State because they have great shooters, from one to five. You've just got to knuckle down and play one on one in the post.