Alan Johnston Kids Quotations

We are in the single-elimination tournament point right now, and I don't think our kids are ready to be eliminated. I know this means something to this basketball team and they are going to come out and play like it means something.

I was surprised, but I only get that because I had a bunch of kids who knew how to play the game and played it hard for 12 games. This was like an unspoken gift from my team to me. The biggest award was what our team was able to accomplish.

We can't be lethargic and feel sorry for ourselves after what happened (at JT). Our kids are resilient. They had two good practices and if we can come out and with the same intensity we had Tuesday, we'll be fine.

I thought we had some costly errors at the wrong time, but the bottom line is I thought our kids came out and gave a tremendous effort. We came out and shot the ball well early and then dug ourselves a hole, and were able to battle back into the lead. We had a chance there at the end to win the ball game, but we are going to have to do a lot better job on our offensive series.