(Sparta is) a much better team than they were the last time we played them. They take the ball inside, and they guard well. ... This was a much closer game than the score indicates.
We are going to have to come out and play every night to win this regional. We aren't the type of basketball team that can just show up and go through the motions. Right now, we are just like everybody else. You want to put together a good week of basketball and see what happens.
We're going to have to toughen up a bit and not let teams crawl back into games like this. (But) I'm proud of the kids and the way they hung in there and found a way to win.
This has been a magical ride. We're a very inexperienced team and a very young team. We only play two seniors and we play four sophomores quite a bit.
There are probably five or six teams that have a chance in Class A. But you just never know how kids will react coming out of the Christmas break. Strange things can happen.