Those kids knew they were going to have to step up without Chad in the meet. I was very happy with how they performed.

Our athletes really performed well. We just didn't get any (unexpected) points.

In the fourth quarter, our kids just wanted it more. We put on some full-court pressure and forced some turnovers.

I like our team a lot. We've got a lot of talented kids, but we need to stay focused and keep going with what we need to do and that's win a conference title.

Overall, this meet was good to reaffirm the kids that we could potentially have a good team this year if we continue to work. We've got several All-Americans on this team that I think have improved over last year.

I told our kids that we didn't lose the game on Kerry's last shot. We lost the game in the first 20 minutes when we scored only 14 points.