We have to be careful not to be satisfied now. We can't make it our crown jewel.
In the third quarter we came out with more energy and intensity than they did. We knew all along we could compete. We knew after last night we could not only compete, but win.
We struggled to get into our offense a little bit.
We just could not get all the way back.
We just tried to get the ball inside with our height advantage. We wanted to play our game, establish the tempo and take control of the game.
They were up for the challenge and had that look in their eye the whole game. They were really confident and ready to compete.
I was kind of nervous, especially when they had all that momentum in the fourth. It was kind of shaky there. Rebounding is something where we did not do a good job. There is no excuse for that.
You don't want to talk about next year because there is still a lot of this year left. We are growing. We are a long ways ahead of where we were last year. We just need to have that final step and beat one of those teams that is ahead of us.
This was kind of a mirror image of the other game.
The game used to be post dominated. The game is now becoming more guard dominated. If you don't have a good point guard you will have trouble getting the ball across court and getting into your offense.
