We are sorry to be losing Michael but he wants to transfer to another school at this time. We wish him nothing but the best of luck in his future academic and basketball endeavors.

We missed some easy shots and turned it over. And then we took some ill-advised, deep threes. We were looking to get it inside. They were very aggressive defensively and it was very hard to move the ball.

We have four seniors on this team and their experience makes a difference in close games like this.

There were six or seven shots in the second half where we had him defended, but he just made them. He's a very good player and when he gets rolling and in rhythm, he's very tough to guard.

It's a new season once you get to Big South Conference play. I'm disappointed in our record right now but hopefully we'll be ready to play come Wednesday night.

We executed well on offense in the first half but you have to guard people. We just didn't do a good job responding to their physical play.