Tampa had a great game plan, but we stuck to ours and in the end our defensive intensity was enough. Our posts played very well today and the guards made the big play when we needed it.

We fought. We battled. We stuck to our game plan and stuck together. We did all that and still came up short. We were chasing them the whole time. The rebounds and the free throws were killers.

They're a very fundamentally sound team and an extremely good shooting team from 3-point range. They spread it out on offense. They have a freshman post player who's outstanding, and their guard play is just unbelievable. We'll see (today) how tough our defense is.

We had a game plan and it was two defensive lapses which cost us a result today.

We were really ripe. You look at our stats, and they aren't much different. The difference was our defensive intensity, and their offensive efficiency. The thing I was happy with, at the end of the game, was that they were making shots, but they were tough shots, they weren't easy. They're a hard team to guard, when they're doing that.

Our defensive intensity wasn't there. We slacked a little bit.