I'm so proud of my kids and how hard they played. They knew no one gave us credit last year and no one was going to give us a chance coming up here this year. Man for man, they are a better team than us. We know that, but we understood how to play and emotionally it was huge for us.

We came out of the halftime fresh and they came out like they had played four quarters. They got moving eventually, but I thought that was the difference.

All the credit to them. See where we are now? For people who caught us at the end, it was like night and day. We put a bunch of pieces together and made quite a team.

That was a big part. Mike Phillips came out and got us going by being aggressive inside. But, we played good defense against a team that shoots well.