We played well defensively. I think our kids are playing with a lot of confidence. That's the kind of stuff that you want when you're about to head into the conference season, so it's definitely good for us.

That was a good total team effort and we obviously needed something like that. The kids have all been working hard and they all got rewarded with some playing time.

I'm not sure we did anything well tonight but compete. We hung in there and kept playing and kept playing. We played good defense all night and never gave up. Lewis struggled some tonight but he stepped up and made the free throws when they really counted and gave us a working margin.

You have to have a plan B when you go up against a player like [Pillow]. He's capable of blowing one guy up for 25 or 30 points. You have to be able to do something that will take the ball out his hands.

We ran some plays for him, and he made some tough shots in traffic.

I hated that they had to go out on such a sour note when they had done so much for our program, our school and our community. They generated a lot of excitement for the community with their run to the championship game last year. I know they were set on bringing that back this year.