In our last two games we had double-digit leads and lost because we quit playing defense. That was pretty much what we worked on in practice all week, and we had a lot better defensive effort (Friday).

It's better to be sitting here talking about playing poorly and winning than going home with a loss.

A last-second loss just crushes you. Tonight it was a 19-point game. In a game like that, you slowly start to realize it's getting away. It doesn't crush you. It's not as hard to come back from in the region.

That's got to be creeping into (our players') minds a little bit. But they still found a way to win.

We played really well in the first half. We played hard on defense and moved the ball. When we do that we're a good team. In the second half, we didn't' play hard and didn't move the ball well at all.

When it came down to crunch time, their kids made the plays and ours didn't.