Matt Bowling Quotations

I thought we did a decent job defensively. You have to give them credit, they were knocking down big shots. Every time we'd make a run, they would hit a big shot.

That's our composure right there. We never hit the panic button. We never showed it with our body language or our demeanor that we were struggling for a bit. We've been in a lot of close ballgames this year, and we knew that we were capable of pulling out a win in the end.

It feels real good to win it. I try not to spend a lot of time focusing on what's happened in the past and instead we spend more time focusing on the present and the future. Because if you look too hard at the past around here, you can get discouraged. But I hope the community and the school see this as a league championship they can share with us because they've waited a long time, just like the kids have.

Nate hit a lot of big shots for us. He was the glue that held us together.

He gets sneaky points. He just snakes his way in and scores.

I don't think anyone has an idea of who will win this thing. It's wide open and I think you have to look at every single team in the division as having a shot at winning it.

We felt pretty comfortable despite the tempo. That's the beauty of our team. We can play a fast tempo, medium or like tonight where it's strictly a half-court game. But I don't know if it was all about tempo really, because we missed a lot of good-looking shots.

We expected to see a lot of zone tonight, based on what we had seen from scouting and the last time we played them. We knocked down shots and that's a great way to beat a zone. We were definitely hitting our shots tonight.

To look at what we've been able to do the last two years ? we went 8-0 in the division, we won 17 games. That's a great season. This one hurts right now, but it was a great year for us.

Once we had the lead, we wanted to take the air out of the ball. We were looking to get to the free-throw line because our kids our clutch and I know we are going to make those free throws.