For three halves, we just struggled offensively. I thought we came out and played with better effort and better energy in the second half. |
Hopefully we've blown the cobwebs of travel and all the other things involved with coming off the Christmas break away. It wasn't the prettiest (victory), but I was real proud of our kids. I thought everybody got an opportunity to get in, thought everybody was able to contribute. |
I wouldn't trade our 19-game run for this one game today. |
In the 31 games we've played this year, we've had that happen in 29 of them now. In the last 12 or 13 minutes, I thought we had great energy and kind of exploded. |
In the end, it's all about relationships. It's the favorite part of my job. |
It may be the first year we play without a big target on our backs. They will like that challenge. I think it will be good. |
It was an ugly win. But it goes in the 'win' column. You don't put ugly in the win column, you put wins. |
It would have been a long bus ride home. You have to have some luck to win big games and 99 percent of this win was pure luck. We dodged one. |
It's really a tribute, first of all, to our seniors for stepping up and meeting a new challenge. And then, too, to our whole team, because we had different people step up and carry us on different nights. |
It's the same challenge, just different people. |
Molly is a fierce competitor who absolutely hates to lose. |
That's some of the best Bethany has played in her time here. The things that she does don't show up in the (stat sheet), but she does what she does best. |
We are excited about this opportunity. It's going to be a new challenge ? trying to win three games in four days. |
We finally got it going in the second half. We got some easy baskets off our defense, but we also executed better on offense. |
We had a little heart-to-heart talk, a little soul searching at halftime. Then I thought we came out and played the way this team is capable of playing. We got after it defensively, had some good ball movement and, most important, we had some energy. |