They had a nice run to begin the second half so I told the guys they had to tighten up the defense. From that point on, we did a nice job of shutting down their shooters.

We had some injuries, some guys with cramps. That kind of limited what we could do in the second half. We're going to throw the ball [throughout the season] out of the shot gun. Our quarterback is very accurate.

At halftime, I told the guys we needed to keep our lead in the second half. A lot of teams that are as successful as Maryville aren't used to playing from behind. We wanted to put that pressure on them in the second half and not let them make a run.

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He shouldn't have to tell me that.

Before we came out on the floor for the second half, we huddled up and I told the team it wasn't going to end like this. We responded to the challenge.

The only downside was that we started the second half with the same crap we've been doing. We had turnovers on our first four possessions, and all a sudden, our lead goes from 18 to 11.