Do I wish somebody would have stepped in there and grabbed him before he got that shot off? Absolutely. But at the same time, with so many offensive weapons out there, guys were reluctant to leave the shooters.

Fool's gold. We knew we were in for a tussle, the way (the Spartans) can shoot it.

I wasn't happy with the last four minutes of the game (for us). Give St. Charles North credit. They did a terrific job of putting their heads down and getting to the basket. We need to do a better job of taking away dribble drive penetration.

We wanted to chop up those last 16 seconds with some fouls. We felt Gabe (Landau) got one at the time line, but it wasn't called. So (Henderson) penetrated and got right down the lane.

They have terrific quickness to the basket. All five guys can make baskets. You have to guard them all. We're going to have our hands full next game.

That's when we're at our best, when five guys are playing defense, five guys are running and we're sharing the ball.

We're colliding awfully early. I don't think it will decide the conference championship, but it will definitely set the tone the rest of the way.

This is one of those games, whoever had it last. And I wanted to have it last.

They had a terrific game plan: spreading us out, slowing the game down and keeping us in the 50s. We had to win this game in a style that we've not had to do yet. The good thing was, we did.