Drew DiPippo Quotations

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Overall our defense has been a general constant for us. We've only given up more than 50 points in one or two games. Certainly, we could still improve at it.

We were never down more than 10 points until the end. I thought we played well. We worked hard and competed well. We made some mental errors and they hurt us on the boards.

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tolland is an exceptional team. They probably have the best player in the league. We definitely have our work cut out for us.

Tim was very solid all night. The neat thing about it was he was very consistent all game. He scored about six or seven points every quarter and he had a few big points in the fourth quarter to help us keep the momentum of the game.

Every time we lose it's a bit of a struggle, but we realize that we've competed in every game. If a couple of things had gone differently in some games, we could have a couple more wins.

It was another tough loss. The effort was great. I appreciate the effort. It's almost like groundhog's day. We play good for stretches of the game. Then we have a few stretches where we struggle and then we fight like crazy at the end to give us a chance to win.

Granby is a good team. They punish you for your mistakes. All things considered, they took it to us. They made the most of our mistakes.

The difference in the game was the huge percentage of free throw makes.

The goal is to win four of eight to try and get to the state tournament. It's going to be a tough stretch, but if we pick up some of the things we did last week, we're going to be in these games with a chance to win. Hopefully, Tuesday night turns out to be just a blip and more of our solid play will step forward during the last few weeks.