We didn't do a great job of guarding him.
I think maybe the early part of the game it came too easy for us, and then we started to have to work for it and we weren't working hard. We hung in there and did what we needed to do to win the game.
Her (Schmidt's) offense has never been enough to win games, but her defense has set the tone for what we needed to do at Southeast. It was man-to-man, pressure defense and the kids never tired.
It's exciting to be in the championship. I won six districts in a row. I had at least one Division 1 player. This year I don't. I have a hard hustling and working team. They just work, work, work.
We'd like to have been in the championship game, but we won two out of three and at times we played good basketball. We were disappointed … but hopefully this gives us some momentum for next week's conference play.
He was a leader, a good person. He represented what a student-athlete should be, played and practiced hard.
It's made us better. It's made us deeper. I've got kids coming off the bench now that fight harder than I think they would have fought if she hadn't been here.
Is there one or two who wish they could have started in her spot?. They haven't told me, and they haven't shown it. I think they've done the job to accept her in the most positive of ways. I've had teams in the past that would have made it very difficult here for her. And that's not the case with this team.
I wasn't pleased at all. We did not play well in the second half. We refused to run a half-court offense, and it really cost us.
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