The end of the first quarter absolutely killed us. We left a guy wide open in the first quarter ... and that was big.

He got us off to a great start. He got a lot of points early. We know he gets a little fatigued, but we need him to score a lot of points for us for our offense to hum.

Obviously, I would like us to play better offensively. Our defense was good all five games. We'd like to score more points and be more fluid, but I think that's something that can come as the season goes on.

Well, that doesn't tell us much, does it? ... I guess if he's going to be your friend -- your adult friend -- I'll have to get to know him a little.

We knew coming in that we had a very tough task ahead of us with Louisiana Tech and all their experience and tradition of the program.

Vernal came out more physical in the second game, and we sort of lost our cool. That took us out of our game.