Per Grant McCasland in postgame presser:
“Christian is crushed he couldn’t play.”
“We will leave it at this…before the game we just didn't have any idea that it wasn't an option, and just was told when warm ups hit that we're going to hold him out for right now, and fully anticipated in play, and then we got closer to going out there, and they said we're going to take him and try to warm him up while they're doing intros and see if we can get him where he's ready to play. I just think everybody thought he was playing. And then the whole thought process was just keep trying to get him to see if he can, see if he can play at all. And I'm not going to speak to the specifics of what it is, but it just got to a point where Mike [athletic trainer] just kept coming and telling me, giving me an update, like, you know, looks like we'll have him ready. And then the last thing, he came and told me he's like, we're not playing. And we left halftime thinking there's a chance he was playing the second half, and then just wasn't able to go."
