I was worried at the beginning of the season I wouldn't be as fast because of the broken ankle. But the pain has went down some.

My ankle is twice as strong, so I'm actually faster than I was before. My doctor gave me three exercises - slowly walk on the treadmill, ride the bike and swim. I did that two hours a day for three weeks.

We didn't have two of our starters. I told my players at the beginning of the match this is an opportunity for some of them who don't play as much to make an impact, make a difference. I don't think we did that today.

We ran into a bit of injury trouble at the beginning, the first half, and we kind of struggled to make it to Christmas. But we knew coming back from Christmas break that we'd have a stronger team and we'd have a couple of guys coming in that would help our lineup.

We're a better defense than we were at the beginning of the year, and that's because we've got so many young players learning a new system ( Ted Cottrell 's) and so many young players playing at this level for the first time. I don't know what everybody else would call it. I'd call it progress.

I'm very happy for Adrian. At the beginning of the year we told him, 'We're playing for you.' He's been here for five years, and he's put his heart and soul into the program. Without him, we would have been in trouble.