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We knocked down our free throws the fourth quarter and still took it to the basket. We weren't tentative, and that's really a good step for a young team. We know that almost all our scoring has to come from guys who haven't played much. Our seniors are role players, they don't score much.

We knew we weren't going to the Elite Eight or the Final Four, so Sunday was all about pride. We wanted to come out and show people that we are a better team than the score indicated Saturday.

We let them score a lot more than the last time we played them. It was one of those nights when we were reeling and didn't play to our ability. We were a step slow on defense everywhere.

We knew they were going to play us zone because they didn't want Corey to dribble penetrate.

We started off great, but we couldn't stay consistent. We go through droughts because we're still a young team trying to figure out how to score against tough defense. Even though we were ahead, I didn't like the flow of the game. We were trading baskets with Lehigh and you can't do that. I knew we needed to clamp down.

We started being patient and we hit the ball and did the things that we had to do to score runs. This is one of those games that you hope to learn from.

Where teams score on us is when they score easy baskets. (Wheat is) very talented with the ball in his hands, but we're trying to bring him along in his mind. These kids are all we've got and they're going to keep giving effort and heart. Maybe the learning on the fly will translate into some rapid growth.

Where Jeff could score 25 or 30 points now we're getting 12 points from this post player, 12 points from this post player and maybe six from another. It's more evenly distributed.

When you've played this game for 30 years, you're not worried about whether you're leading at this point. You just want to have a nice score and go have a nice lunch.

When you've got the momentum in a football game... that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone, ... We want to score for America's families.