He didn’t get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

He’s like an extension of me out there. He has such a desire to play and win. He knows where everyone is on the field.

Especially coming off the third quarter, we really put the pressure on them, turned the ball over and got some easy baskets.

I think it’s going to be a real battle. Hopefully we shoot the ball a little better. We’ll change some things defensively to hopefully slow them down a little.

I knew they had only lost one game. But I think we played our best soccer today. We passed real well and we finished.

I was hoping he could at least see out of one eye, so he could still shoot.

These guys definitely overachieved. If you had told me at the beginning of the season we would be here today, I wouldn’t have believed you. We play bigger than we are, we hustle and we...

We got a lot of points inside and we really hit the offensive boards, which I thought we could do a better job of.

Last year, our other guys ran into the problem of sitting and watching Crawford and Thomsen. Players used to get out of their way. This year, they know they’ll get the ball and they know...

He does it every night, basically. I think the rest of the team knows that. He’s the guy we’re going to turn to when the going gets tough and he just does everything for us:...

We were in the double-bonus real early. We seemed to be a step quicker than them and they were fouling us and we knocked down the free throws.

If we defend better and offensively get everybody else involved and looking to score we’ll be all right. And definitely, we need to keep them off the offensive boards.

He’s the ultimate team player. He plays both ends of the floor and probably plays harder on the defensive end. He knows everyone needs to be involved in our offense, so if he can beat...

Everyone has stepped up, especially defensively.

We didn’t want to be stagnant. We wanted three or four guys besides Zack taking shots.

He’s in great physical shape and we thought him guarding Nelson would wear (Thomsen) down a little bit. He’s mentally so strong he just kept working at things. I told him his shots would fall...

Parks was open, just sitting there. It was just a scramble and then just a little jump shot.

We have a pretty good defender to put on him. Zack played straight man and held him to 11 points (in the first meeting). I don’t think we’ll change up.

I think we were unusually hot.

Getting to the Arena is a huge step for our program.

That game was definitely a boost. We know we can play with anyone. We have much higher expectations now. These guys are hungry. The players have put in a lot of hard work, and it’s...