In a playoff situation, you either elevate your game or you go home. You have to play good defense and you have to give a lot of second effort, and they showed a lot of that (Tuesday).

We jumped on them in the first quarter. The kids were very focused. They showed up ready to play.

We play very good defense and we're a very good rebounding team. Those are our redeeming qualities.

My hat's off to Prairie and the way they play defense. But eventually, we're going to shoot the ball well again.

Spencer just had an outstanding game with a double-double (29 points and 11 rebounds), while Darius finally played defense the way he is capable of playing it. He will continue to be challenged to do that. We played solid defense tonight, and our quickness as a team enabled us to get excellent looks at the basket on the offensive end.

Our problem right now is putting the ball in play and playing defense.