Todd Tripp Quotations

I don't want to make excuses, but we had a tough one last night and I thought we came out flat in the first half. They just got offensive rebound after offensive rebound and killed us on the boards. In the second half, I thought we did a lot better job getting to the boards.

I felt it hurt when Fischer didn't play. The last two games we haven't been able to finish.

I felt like our pressure really hurt them. They traveled a few times and threw the ball away. I felt like our kids were everywhere.

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

We'll get after it in practice next week. It's regional time. We'll see what happens.

We were sleepwalking through three quarters. We've been battling some sickness here lately but we're not going to use that as an excuse. The guys showed guts in the fourth quarter.

We can't complain. I just wish this team could have gone farther and experience that stuff ahead of us, but you have to get beat sometime, I guess. Our fans were great. They showed up tonight and that was good to see. I just hope they realize what kind of year we had. This was a really good year and I'm proud of them.

We did a better job of running things than we did against Benton. And Herrin's defense was pretty good it was better than Benton's.

I just felt like we have in the last seven games, now eight, that our bench had a lot to do with (our winning). We can run kids in and out out there.

It's a joy to be around these kids and a joy to coach these kids. I hate to see the seniors go.