21 Quotes by Jack Purtell

We're starting a stretch of games against the kind of teams we would play deeper in the tournament. This is a difficult stretch of games coming up and it will help us down the road.

We respect everyone and fear no one. We like to keep that kind of attitude.

Central's size concerns me a little. The first I saw of them was (last Tuesday), and they are extremely talented. I didn't see any weaknesses. Hopefully we'll be able to do our homework and come up with some way to hang around and have a chance.

Give Jerome credit, they were down and didn't quit, they didn't back down.

I was a little worried going in, but we went in and we were the aggressor.

Our staff has seen them play and come away impressed. We'll try to take something away defensively from them with zone, man and different pressures and just try to do what we do best and finish our shots.

We don't have a 20-point-a-night scorer. Our kids share the basketball and score by committee. Whoever is open shoots it, and we all have pretty good shooters, so that helps.

We played really well. I'm really happy with our intensity and the way we shared the ball.

We played our best game of the year so far. We shot well, mixed it up on defense, rebounded and everybody played well.