It was a great way to end our trip out to California. We were able to get everyone in ... we learned a lot about each other and we are ready for the second half of our season to begin.

I'm not one to take short cuts. I'm not afraid of hard work because I'm used to it. I think that hard work has paid off to help us get to where we are.

I was pleased with our defense in the second half. We held Stout 20 points below their season average. We were right there with them. Unfortunately, we couldn't get our shots to go in.

Overall it was a pretty streaky game. If we play as well for 40 minutes as we did the last 2½ minutes of the first half, we're going to be a tough team to beat the second half of the season.

I don't know what to tell you. I never could have envisioned something like this. I thought we would come out like gangbusters. We talked about being the aggressors, and I don't know if we had an aggressive spurt in us tonight.

We talked about having one person step up for us, and tonight we had five. Whoever came in for us tonight really did a nice job for us.