“We paid a lot of attention to Newberry and that everything they got offensively they would have to earn late. We wanted to take care of the basketball and be strong with it because we knew they would put us on the line, and that's something we knew we were good at — converting free throws.”
“Going into most every game we play, that will be one of our primary advantages. We've just got to really make an effort to use that advantage to the best that we can.”
“Real early in the ball game, I thought we did a real good job of establishing the inside. We'd go through spurts throughout the course of the game where we had a chance to use the big guys.”
“Going up against [Drew] Babcock and Smith inside, it was kind of a heads-up match between my two biggest and his two. We just wanted to come out and be the aggressor.”
“We got to the line 20 times, made 17 of them or something like that. That was big for us to put it away late. They started charging at us but we took pretty good care of the ball and, again, executed at the free-throw line.”
“I anticipated (playing man defense) was what they were going to do. They really come out and pressured us on the perimeter and we could not find our posts.”
