I feel bad for the kids because they did play hard, they did a lot of the right things. Some things down the stretch we didn't do right, like help-side defense.

Our kids play with a lot of poise and composure. They didn't give up.

Our kids are fighters. They had several opportunities to quit tonight and they didn't. They'll come right back again next week.

On long rebounds, we didn't box out well and they out-hustled us at times. Once they had a feel they were in the game -- if you let a team in the game, in the fourth quarter, it can come back to bite you and that's what happened today.

These (close losses) are getting too commonplace.

We went man-to-man. We got our backside rotation over and our guards helped out.