I knew Pat's wasn't going to come in and lay down. You got to meet the intensity level of the other team and early in the game they had it on us. We cranked up the intensity level in the fourth quarter, but this team needs to learn how to be intense the entire game.

Garrett is capable of doing that (scoring). He's one of the guys they won't be keying on and if they leave him open, he's going to knock them down.

Winning conference is our first goal.

We weren't executing so we decided we were going to pull them out of the zone but that wasn't working effectively. We needed to do it and we gradually opened it up enough to where they had to really extend. We weren't stalling; we were trying to get them to come out of the zone.

We got carried away with the lead. And like we have done in the past, we let up.

Demetrius has been our silent leader. He's been our most consistent player. He's been outstanding.

You can't expect to have your 'A' game every game. However, what we've done is respond in the big games and that's good to see. The Marist game (a 71-54 win that was televised) was a big one and they responded in that. We also did a good job against St. Pat's (a 68-57 win last Saturday).

I knew they were a good team. But they're not ranked and that's what the kids look at.

Once we were able to open up that 17-point lead, we were pretty much able to maintain that through the third quarter. In that second quarter, there were a lot of steals and just a lot of turnovers on their part, and we started running ...