We haven't been a real tremendous consistent team offensively. Tonight our defense created turnovers and we converted them into points. Our defense has been solid all year. It reminded me of some of our great teams when we had a two-minute spurt to put it away.
We had some open looks, but the key was we didn't make shots. We didn't do a good job of taking it at them early, and in the second half we took the attitude if they block the shot, then they block the shot.
We've always said that you can't win the league in the first round of the season but you can lose it. I think that is the great part of playing in the NCC.
That's been a key for us. We've been able to play 10 kids.
We really want to be strong starters. The first three minutes of the game and the first three minutes of the second half are very key for us. If you look at what we did, we led 8-3 at the start of the game, and then we came out and scored the first seven of the second half.
I think it's why they've been good the last third of the season. Their kids were stepping up and hitting shots.
We defended really, really well. We can be a pretty good team if we can make a few shots.
Every year our goal is to win the conference. We're getting better.
In the second half we got even better defensively. When you play a lot of kids, you can get excellent effort. But a possible disadvantage of playing a lot of kids is that sometimes you don't get the consistency on offense that you would like.
Andrew has played so well over the last two weeks.
