I felt great. I told them that this was our game to win. If we can survive a half like that, we should win this game. They just played better than us in the second half and that's all I can say.

(Rivers) told me he felt early in the game it was over.

I told the kids that this was a game that we needed to win. Our district is so up in the air because everybody is winning and everybody is losing. It's just going to come down to who wants it and which team is stronger.

I don't think anyone really expected this kind of game. But I felt at some point in the year, we could be pretty good. We didn't know if it would be week three, four, five . . .

The guys knew this game was big. We had our chances to win in regulation.

To survive is to win.