We took a lot of good shots in the first half, but they just weren't going in. We played better defense in the second half, which led to easy baskets for us.

You have to give North Edgecombe credit; they never stopped fighting. They have some incredible shooters.

North Edgecombe will definitely be up for us. We're the defending champions and we have to play like that.

It's good to see Brandon back. Now we have more depth in our post positions.

Obviously, it's going to be a very tough game for us. You don't win 17 straight games for nothing. We'll just do the best that we can and see what the outcome is.

When he's on the floor, things happen. When he's not on the floor, we just don't have our go-to guy.