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It was nice to have Eric Manning back for his first game. He is a cog in our offensive and defensive lines.
Defensively we're still not where I hoped we would be, but part of that is due to injuries and part of that is due to the fact that we didn't press because of those injuries. I'm sure we'll be better a month from now.
It was obviously real balanced. We had several people who had opportunities to hit some easy shots. We got a lot of transition buckets in the second half.
We made some plays, they made some plays. But in the end we want to make one more play than the other team.
They made the plays at the end. I think their speed beat us as well.
We recognize this is a big game, but what is more important to us right now is just playing well and playing physical. Those two things are more important than the outcome. We're just trying to improve from week to week. That's how you win championships.
We accomplished what we wanted to do. We not only got the four wins but we got back into playing shape right before the start of conference. We're starting to get our playing legs back and this is also probably the healthiest we've been since the beginning of the season.
Every one of them is big from here on out. We're in the back of the pack and we've got to fight our way out of it just like everybody else does.
I've been here 13 years, and we haven't come close to that kind of start. I'm really proud of the kids. We could've panicked, but they got their composure back. The bottom line was we settled down and came through. I'm just very happy for the kids.
We can make all the excuses we want but part of it is we don't have many sophomores out there and we've got a lot of freshmen out there playing college basketball for the first time. Sometimes going through something like this gives you a comfort level the next time.
