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.

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.

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.

We executed much better in the third quarter and got Lewis isolated. We made some adjustments offensively and got Lewis some quick buckets. But I never felt real comfortable because Bentonville took us out of some things. But our kids were persistent enough to get what we wanted.

We've had 11 games away from home now. I know the kids are anxious to play in front of their home fans finally.