I'm proud of the way our kids played. They played as hard as they could, and that's something we ask them to do all the time.

We finally stepped it up in overtime and contained them pretty well.

It was kind of a slow-paced, defensive game the whole way through. We didn't have anybody who really stood out offensively, but we had seven players score.

They're a good basketball team, and that's what were trying to do, play good teams. They came up big at the end.

Defense should always be there. You don't go into a defensive slump if you don't want to.

We got ourselves in a hole. They sure burned us on it.

Our defense is what did it for us tonight. We talked about two things: creating turnovers and rebounding well.

It's something that's very breakable, if you just relax. (The Hawks) have got great athletes. They're not ranked No. 2 in the state for nothing.

We had a strength in the post depth that we won't quite have anymore, but we will still be strong.