We preach defense, defense, defense and you kind of saw that come through for us tonight.

I'm speechless. I just want to jump up and down. I'm glad for the coaches. Our defense was a big key in the second quarter (holding West McDowell to only one basket). We, as a team, showed a lot of heart and didn't quit.

We didn't do a good job of getting back on defense. (Kinston) would get the rebound, then they'd fly down the court for dunks. Their lead just kept getting bigger and bigger.

Our defense in the second half was great. We needed an energy spark, and we wanted to come out and give a great effort.

I knew we were going to have a pretty good defense. But I didn't know it was going to be this good. And I think it's really kind of shocked everybody, how well we're clicking right now.

We went to a zone defense and the guys came out and played it well. They came out with a lot of enthusiasm. They wanted to wrap up the conference at home.