26 Quotes by Mike Murphy

We don't steal money from people's paychecks without asking them for it. That's Soprano fundraising over in the union boss world, and we don't play that game.

We played pretty well defensively. When we play well on defense, we can be pretty tough. But we still have some work to do.

We played pretty physical tonight and I liked that. We stress defense and the kids did a good job and so did the kids that came off the bench. They can all play defense. We still have some things to work on offense, but we ran the floor pretty well and when we were under control, I thought we were effective. We have to be playing well defensively for everything else to work.

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

We had opportunities -- the kids battled. It was one of those deals where (McKenzie) made a couple shots at the end. I'm extremely proud -- I don't know what else we could have done.

We played well defensively -- only two points in the second half is good no matter who you play.

We actually played pretty well. We shot 53 percent from the field and I thought we defended real well. The issue really is that Southwest 71 percent from the field, and that's to their credit. Our kids responded and took every punch. I was proud of how they responded.

We closed out at the right time of the day with a big game. We came out in the second half and boom, boom, boom. We're in the hunt.

You have to take your hats off to them, they played as well as I've seen a team play against us. If our group will shoot 53 percent from the field every night, I'm elated. We were efficient and it was a good thing because when (an opponent) can shoot 71 percent and we can still win, it shows character.