It was one of our goals to get to the 20-win mark and I was really happy for the boys that they were able to get that done. They worked real hard to achieve that. |
It's hard to say good-bye to seniors who have picked your program up and put it on their shoulders and do it with the integrity and character that they did. Losing is losing, but I'd much rather keep these guys around. |
It's playoff time, you've got to do everything right, and free throws are a big part of it. |
Nothing is for sure, but I would say that's a safe bet. |
That was an old-fashioned butt-whipping. They took us behind the woodshed and let us have it. |
That's uncharacteristic of us. We've been doing a better job from the free-throw line. |
That's when we're at our best, when five guys are playing defense, five guys are running and we're sharing the ball. |
The boys put so much time and energy and effort into that game. To have it not go your way, it does take some time to come back and try to pick up the pieces. We feel that we've done that to the best of our ability. |
There were a couple stretches offensively where we got the ball where we wanted it, but we couldn't knock down a shot. We got some inside and some outside looks where we came away with nothing. You can't do that against a team of Barrington's caliber. |
They had a terrific game plan: spreading us out, slowing the game down and keeping us in the 50s. We had to win this game in a style that we've not had to do yet. The good thing was, we did. |
They have terrific quickness to the basket. All five guys can make baskets. You have to guard them all. We're going to have our hands full next game. |
This is one of those games, whoever had it last. And I wanted to have it last. |
This last week of practice, we did what we could to get the fire burning and to make the boys hungry again. I think we saw some hunger tonight. |
This was a great night for these kids. We told them (Saturday) morning that 15, 20 years from now, nobody's going to remember who they played or what their record was, but these guys are going to remember that they came here and played. Whenever we get the invitation, we won't turn it down. |
We couldn't get a stop or a defensive rebound from about the three-and-a-half-to-four-minute mark down, and that's where we lost the game. |