I think if we have a shot to be great, it is on defense. If we play great defense, we have a chance every Friday night.

We're still the underdog. They're undefeated. They're coming off a play-off win last year.

We play better defense than we do offense. We try to score off our defense. We concentrate a lot more on our defense. We've been working on it a lot the last couple of weeks and that's helped us a lot.

We didn't play really good defense. That's why we were down 4-2. But the guys realized that after the first, we had to play better. We had to tighten things up.

He came to play as a senior and helped take the pressure of Jimmy. He could play defense or forward.

(The rebounding) speaks to our stick-to-itiveness. And on a day when our defense really didn't play up to its potential, our rebounding margin really carried us.