Our defense wasn't doing as well as in the first half. I got the team together and said we had to step it up if we're going to pull this off.

Hands down, they are the best defense we'll face, ... They are in a well-respected conference, and this is the first time in a long time that our guys have seen these types of athletes with that kind of speed and size. So it's a good experience. The thing that I like most of all is our guys remained positive throughout the whole game.

We got out on their shooters and we talked. That?s the number one thing we did. Defense won the game for us today.

We felt good coming in here. We were hyped up and playing good defense. We didn't let those (first two games of the ECC tournament) bother us. We made sure to play hard.

The defense played fantastic. They gave us the ball and great field position. We didn't do anything offensively until the third quarter. They won the game for us.

I think we did that. But we still have some room to improve. Our style of defense is getting after the offense. However, you want to do that. Whether it's a zone defense or blitzes, we're going to do that.