Rich Utter Quotations

Every team has its personalities. We thought we would be pretty good because we have the shooters, we have the guys who can run and rebound, and we have a big kid in the middle.

You get mentally focused that you're going to win. There is no other option. And then you have to deal with (losing) for a little bit. It will take a few days before they can shake that off and be really proud of getting here.

In the first half, we played very, very well, but they're a good team and they made some adjustments and kept inching back on us.

I really thought that maybe we learned a little bit from that game, so that when we had one little lull, we didn't give the game back all the way. And then the second half we were solid.

For four days we played really good defense, all five guys on the floor. And on offense we can hurt you in a lot of different ways.

It's going to be a tough game. They're defending 4A state champs, and they've got a player who is a handful. So we'll come up with something.