Our kids will take the same attitude they've taken all year and that's to compete and rebound and play defense and execute on offense.

I told the kids we won 14 games, but no championships, so let's go out and win one.

I don't think there's anybody not wanting to [play defense], but maybe, subconsciously , we haven't been completely focused. Tonight we kind of got caught up with the officials a little bit; we weren't completely focused in the second half.

We knew we had to play defense, get three and out, and play big.

We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to win a championship, and I think we did a good job.

Gateway is relentless. We knew it wasn't over. They play relentless defense and have a never-say-die attitude.