We locked them up (defensively). (Nobles) is a good team, they can shoot and they came to play today. We needed to defend better.

We locked down defensively to get the lead. We got to do what we wanted to do offensively. We didn't turn the ball over. We forced turnovers early and turnovers late. We took care of the basketball and didn't give them chances to score out of our offense.

We have a good defensive team. You have a good group of guys who made the team defensively so I wasn't surprised we went out there and played well.

Not only are they very good offensive, but they are just as good defensively. This is the best team we've played, no question about it.

We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) and people can preach defense, (but) it doesn't matter if you can't put the ball in the hole.

After the second half started, we locked down and were a lot better defensively. Even though we got down, we didn't lose our aggressiveness. But we came down and ... scored three times on them. We just kept controlling it.