You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

Good basketball teams have to do that if you want to be standing at the end of the year. You have to play through that sort of thing. ... All that matters is the end result. The character of (this) team shows when you can play through that sort of thing.

Good basketball teams have to do that if you want to be standing at the end of the year. You have to play through that sort of thing. There are several teams in the league capable of doing that. Hopefully, we're one of them.

We suck on 'D. Both individually and team-wise, we suck. We're pretty consistent that way. I don't know if I have an answer to that. If I did, we wouldn't suck quite so bad.

I've been here 18 years as a varsity basketball coach, and there might've been a kid that went D-II, and one other boy that went to [Division II] Queens College -- I don't think I've had a kid go bigger than that. Travis was the only one.

Both teams predicate what they do on defense. They (both) are pretty demanding in that sense.