Mike became eligible after out seventh game and he's really fit in well. He makes players around him better and he's just a great athlete.

He's very astute, knows what's going on. Sometimes I just want to say, ?Go get in there,' but I can't. And he feels the same way. It's frustrating.

I'm hoping to get us refocused and back on the same page. Can we stick around? I think so. We play in the SCC conference, and that gets us ready.

They're a good team; we're a good team. Tonight they got the better of us. We gave it what we had and tonight it wasn't good enough.

We went to the triangle-and-two to keep Patterson further away from the basket and to prevent their other high scorer from going off. Patterson killed us in the first half, but he seemed content to be away from the ball against the triangle-and-two.

That's what it's going to take. You can't just go to one guy all the time. If we expect Mike to score 32 points every night, it's not going to happen.