A win is a win. We'll take them any way we can.

In the stretch where they got back in it — and you have to give Lincoln-Way Central credit for doing that — we started shooting the three without investigating the inside. But for the most part, I thought we shared the responsibility offensively, and that was a key.

We haven't been a good 3-point shooting team, but tonight we got the ball inside and then kicked it back out. That gave us a better look, and then the kids were ready to shoot.

We're not really a great 3-point shooting team, but we do better when we get dribble penetration and then kick it back out.

Mike has been playing better but he hasn't always been a great free throw shooter. Those were big foul shots he knocked in with the pressure on.

That just shows how far he has come as a player. He may have missed all his shots, but he wasn't afraid to take one under pressure, either. He's developed as an overall player, too, realizing that when a team is focusing on him like Sandburg was, that he can contribute in other ways.