You can't use that as an excuse. Yes, we needed them in the game. If you're going to go down, you want to go down with your seniors giving all their effort. I had two of them on the bench at the end of the game. We're definitely not used to seeing that.

(Cherokee) fought hard. They made their run (in the fourth quarter), and they were right there. But we battled through.

I look at the team in all total aspects. We had four guys in double figures tonight, and if you're going to have two of them (over 20 points) with that, it's hard to beat.

I'm disappointed for our seniors. They've worked so hard and done so much for our program. I think they've lost only two games in the last two years.

The kids had a chance to execute against a top quality team. They are solid all the way around, and we wanted to get experience against them.

It will be a very good test for us. They'll be ready to play, and so will we.

It's always a good, clean rivalry. It's something we always look forward to.

We've got two more games to go through before we can start talking. Right now, we'll let our basketball do the talking for us.

We knew we had to come out and play hard. (North Cobb has) the ability to control the tempo. I do believe we could've done a better job, but our kids played hard, and we moved the ball around well.

We'll take this one and run. We didn't quite play like we should have, but I'm proud of the effort our kids gave and the fact that we were able to do well against a great team.