If it were played 50 miles from here, it might not be that big of a deal. But to have a game like this, in this town, has never happened. People have been talking about it for three months.

I thought our bench did a fantastic job. Those players kept us going without any letdown, and they can be commended for that. It was a real good opportunity to get them in the game because they've been mostly our practice players.

I really expected it to be more competitive than it was. It was a little disappointing. But you can't take much away from our kids. They gave up only 17 points, but we still have things to work on.

Our defensive pressure was good even though we didn't shoot well in the first half. We had to scramble a little bit in the first quarter, but we got a lot of steals from our defense.

We played scared and didn't play to win. We didn't make real good adjustments and we totally beat ourselves. We couldn't get any offensive flow out of their zone. We just weren't comfortable.

This was a win that we needed really bad. We're still working out way out of our little slump, but we're on the uphill climb out of that.