Our defense is much improved and our pitching is much improved. I can't say enough about them. We are a much different team now than we were a few weeks ago.

Our defense kept us in the game, because offensively we struggled most of the night.

We got plenty of stops on defense, but you can't turn the ball over five times.

We show-ed a lot of intensity on defense early. But we missed one of our point guards who is the spark for our defense.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Our defense helped set that up and our offensive line fired off the ball.