We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

He’s a man amongst boys sometimes, and our team has to realize that he’s got to touch the ball more.

We’ve got to work on situations and putting yourself in position to win this game. We’ve got to keep doing that for the next week and a half.

When we have our best players on the floor working the offense and crashing the boards, we can compete with anybody. We still have a lot to learn, but we played together very well tonight.

We’re moving in the right direction. The team has realized in the last week and a half what they have to do. Tonight was kind of a step back. We got out of what we...

It’s fair to everybody. Number one, Dowling, Hoover and Urbandale all deserve a chance at being there, but only one’s going to go. Plus, when you break up the brackets, it helps teams like ours...

We played well enough to win, but if we play one of the top teams in the state tonight, we’re not even close.

We take this, we learn from it and try to get back here.

He tended early in the season to look for his shot; now the other players have to look for his shot.

We’ve got two and a half weeks.

It’s huge in terms of a learning step.

They’ve got every threat you could have. We didn’t have an answer for a lot of different things.

We had our two best players frozen on the bench for four minutes. Both teams played defense with their hands. We got called for it. They didn’t.