20 Quotes by Jim Stafford

We know we've got a good, solid team. We're a balanced team and we've played an extremely tough schedule. We are just hoping that has prepared us enough to do well in this tournament.

We expect to shoot free throws well. Our kids are good shooters and we expect them to be able to make them from the line.

Our kids competed hard. They just had a tremendous size advantage on us. They were a lot bigger than us at every position.

We'll miss some shots, but that won't change our kids' way of playing. Our kids play with a lot of confidence, and I have a lot of confidence in them to let them shoot as many 3-pointers as they do.

We shot it exceptionally well the first half. We made some 3-pointers off the break and kind of got the game going our way.

To me that is a pretty glaring problem,

(Trumbo) played a good solid game defensively and got some key rebounds. He's one of the better players that I saw play in this tournament, and there were some awfully good players playing.

Todd played really well for us inside. That opened up our outside shooters and we usually shoot it pretty well. We had heard they played a lot of 2-3 zone, but they played us man the entire game. Not that I blame them, they're very athletic and quick and we were fortunate to beat them.

We shot the ball well in the first half. They whipped us on the boards early, but we adjusted a little bit. We were up seven at the half, but I knew they were capable of going on a run.