Andy Palmer Good Quotations

We felt like we could play a lot better second half. We were up three, so we felt pretty good about where we were. We've been a second-half team in the last four, five or six games. We've always been able to make a push, and were able to do it again.

I would have liked him to have put it up a few more times, but they also did a good job of defending him in the second half. He got us back in it in the first half.

I think that one thing that will help us is our schedule and our season. We've played good competition, we've played good teams and we've won on the road against good teams. That experience has prepared us for this run. Even though we have some losses, it's helped us.

We have been playing very good defense, and we have rebounded well.

We have good balance, and we have had seven or eight kids lead us in scoring, which has been another key for us. We seem to be playing well together right now.

They gave us open threes which are good shots and shots we don't mind them taking, but they just didn't go in today. We couldn't get in a flow, but you have to credit their defense. We had some decent looks that we just couldn't knock down.

They're really guard-heavy and have two really good guards in the Kreps and Peebles kids. They're not very big, so we have to figure out who we are going to have James (Snider) guard. At the same time, they're going to have to defend us on the other end.

It's just been a challenge every game. I thought we did some good things to get ourselves some cushion, then it's kind of the same old thing that's happened to us all week.