Kevin Cato Quotations

We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.

I thought the kids played pretty well. It was a good team we played today. The kids should have their heads up.

I think we came out of halftime a little flat. They came out and attacked us. We missed a couple key shots that I thought we should have made and we didn't react well to that.

I think that we let the pressure get to us and we started worrying about other things instead of playing basketball. When the tournament was over, the kids were able to relax and get back to the things that helped us get to where we were at, which were shoot well and playing aggressively.

You go through it all and the two conference championship games are being repeated. You come up here and you like to see new teams and you sure hate to see those same faces that see you over and over and know what you do. It's going to be another knock-down, drag-out.

We had players really step up and make shots tonight.

They're pretty athletic. They'll start a 6-5 kid and a 6-4 kid. Their first sub is 6-4. We'll have to put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and take away some awareness of their height advantage. I think that they're a streaky team and with good pressure, we'll be able to limit their streaks.

I told the kids they were capable of making a run. We just had to match it with a run of our own, and their run was a pretty big run and by the time we started matching it, we were down 15 or 16.

It was a battle. You knew it was going to be a good game. They're an athletic, physical team and they make you earn every point. Michael Billiard stepped up and hit a bunch of big shots for us.

They did a great job of shutting down what we usually do and it took us a quarter to adjust. We played them even the last three quarters after the slow start. I was proud of them.