The kids are excited and we're getting a ton of fan support. We're all smiles today.

It wasn't the prettiest game today, but we did have a nice third quarter. I've been in enough of these to know that it's not about how many points you score but just getting to the next day. We took care of that.

This is a tough loss because the kids wanted it so bad. We actually had them on the ropes a couple times in the first half but couldn't keep the turnovers down. It's a fine line ? you don't want them tentative and you don't want them throwing the ball away. I'm still real proud of how we played, a lot of desire and heart.

We have a lot of kids with similar size and quickness, and overall we're pretty athletic. With that combination, we match up pretty well with most teams.

The kids really jumped ahead at the start of the third quarter and that helped us control things a little.

The kids played hard, we did a lot of things good today, things we can build on. We needed to get a game under our belt to see what needs improvement.