We came out soft and slow, got going in the second and had the defense really save us in the third and fourth quarters.

Their first seven (players) are real interesting because they're almost like clones. They just took it to us.

I thought Kentucky's defense was very, very aggressive. Their defense impacted us in a big, big way.

We did very well in the second quarter, and that has been a microcosm of our season. We play a good quarter and then not be so effective in another quarter. But our defense played pretty well throughout.

We missed more than our share of shots close to the basket in that second quarter in particular. So that was the ball game. We missed about seven or eight point-blank shots in the first half.

You are always disappointed with a loss, but I'm more disappointed in how we lost. R-B is a good team and deserved to win, but I think we lost with a very sub-par effort and sub-par performance.