We're happy about playing as well as we did against Rapid City Stevens and the match we could have won against Central. We got a couple of wins on the second day.
This ranks as one of the best wins this season. The more meaningful games we win in February will hopefully help us play more meaningful games in March.
This race is so difficult, so hard to win. I can hardly believe we won it. But Chip gives us a great team and great equipment and there are going to be more wins this year.
We believe that defense is what wins it for you. The one thing we have worked hard for the past few weeks is our defensive play.
Whether you call it rebuilding or reloading, you're going to have those years. I was told by (someone) that if you can get 15 wins in a rebuilding year, that's a heck of a deal. So 15 wins in that situation was good.
We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.
We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.
When it comes down to playoffs, it don't matter how ugly it is, it don't matter what you do, you are going to be remembered by wins and losses. We know if we slip up one time, it's over.
When it came down to it, there were three teams in the running for second place. The percentage of individual wins for Matt and Josh were higher so they took second.
Obviously they are all big from here on out. Hopefully we can build off this and put a few wins together. We just played such consistent basketball in the second half.