This is a good way to finish 2005, and hopefully we can go into January doing some of the things we did. Niagara has dangerous shooters, and we can't look ahead to Canisius. We have to take one game at a time and hopefully we can come out with a pair of wins.

I felt we had a good basketball team. To win 23 of our last 25 says a lot about the kids. They're not a team that quits.

I think our confidence is the result of how we've been playing. We're a much better offensive team this year. We're a much more diversified. But I think the biggest thing is, we're a lot deeper than we were last year. I think we kind of ran out of gas in the second game because we were playing seven people.

I'm sure it will be an experience that will last their lifetime.

I'm glad that they were excited. I know a lot of them weren't on the last team and would've loved the experience to travel and go away.

Their Achilles' heel all year has been interior defense because they're pretty small. We got the ball in there early and often.

They just bring so many different weapons at you, offensively. We've got a number of different things that we're going to try; and hopefully, we're going to be successful at one or two of them.

It's very special and I'm hoping that she's smiling up there. She'd be the type that would be listening.

It was a good win for us. It was two weeks since we played a game, and we came out shooting and defending well. It got us the 10-point lead early.

The big key was our team defense in the second half. We forced 13 turnovers in the second half.