They are very athletic kids who make it pretty easy to coach. But I didn't have any big kids for over 15 years, so I was overdue.

Sometimes as a coach, you think it's better to lose a game and get bumped down a few pegs, but they didn't want to hear any of that. They stood by what they said. They stayed true to their word and, hopefully, they'll keep rolling along.

I told the kids that this is a four-lap race. If we would lose this game, I don't know if we'd have the energy and the gas to keep going. We have four games now to get where we're going.

We're a pretty good free throw shooting team and that's never happened to us. Sometimes it just becomes a mental thing. Maybe it's not meant for an Italian on St. Patrick's Day, I don't know but it's a tough one.

He's a big, athletic player. In the first half we did alright against him. In the third quarter, we just didn't answer the call. But we are lacking in size.

It feels great. The kids made some big plays at the end.