Give Monticello credit, they came out and moved the ball better, set some hard screens and found players open who hit shots.

We're only five miles apart and we compete in so many sports together. It's been a really nice rivalry, especially since we have split the series nearly every year and had a great sectional semifinal game (in 2004).

We pressed and were able to create some turnovers and from there, they had to start fouling.

We did a good job of going to the post, then finding the open person outside. We shot the ball much better than we have recently.

You can't complain about 17-for-19, that's pretty good.

We did a nice job pressing to start and jumped to a nice lead, but later we had a few steals we couldn't capitalize on.