Tim Trantham Quotations

It's good to get a W. It's been two weeks and five games since we won last.

I told them in the time-out he was going to miss one of the free throws and we were going to hit a 3 to win it. It didn't work out exactly the way I planned it but we'll take it.

We talked to the kids before this week started that we wanted to end the season playing good basketball. The kids responded to that. You want to be playing your best basketball this time of year. It has been a roller-coaster year but now is a good time to peak. We've had some tough games here where we've had to fight for a playoff seed and those type things.

I feel like an 8-year old kid who just got a bike on Christmas morning. It was a huge sigh of relief to get this win tonight. We told our kids that we had some frustrating losses this season and we could make amends in this tournament. We did a great job of holding off Pisgah's spurts because they can score in a hurry, and we didn't give up when they fought back at us at the end.

The third seed is important. It could mean a home court advantage in the sectionals if we get that far.

When I looked in Aaron's eyes during the timeout, I knew he would make those free throws. He looked very confident. We could have folded after Pisgah was ahead by two points and time running out, but our guys just wouldn't quit tonight, they wanted to win too much.

A couple of young men did a real fine job defensively against them. I thought Jordan Daniels did an excellent job on (Chris) Harris inside. He did not get latched behind him and tried to get around in front of the post. I thought overall the perimeter defense was OK. We held several guys in check and to hold them in the 30s -- you've got to be pleased with that. The effort was there, I'm just not sure the mentality part was.