“You cannot say enough about our defense,” Wright said. “Everything we thought East Mississippi was going to bring at us — up-tempo, taking shots at us deep, throwing screens, lining up fast — they did that. Our kids were prepared. They were dialed in all week in practice. They did what we asked them to do in the gameplan. There were times when it turned into a physical battle in the run game and sometimes on the perimeter, and most of the time we won those.”