Sheldon Kuhns Quotations

We played smart basketball. We made too many mistakes in the first half, so we slowed down the game in the second half and didn't try to get into a running battle with them.

That was exciting. We've lost our last two close games, so to pull that one out is huge.

We've been in a rut lately, and we decided to break the mold. We went into a full-court man-to-man defense all game to try something different. We changed up our substitution pattern and tried to run instead of rely on size. Our guys responded well.

We didn't quite live up to the expectations that we had for ourselves, and others had for ourselves. With a brand-new program, we're still building. We were in every game, except for the (2A) Meeker game. We just came out on the short side a couple too many times.

We let them score a lot more than the last time we played them. It was one of those nights when we were reeling and didn't play to our ability. We were a step slow on defense everywhere.

We wanted to pull away, but they had some key 3-pointers at the end.

This is big for our program and another step in the right direction. Had we won a couple more games, the number would have been higher. That's motivation for guys to win more next year.

I'm not going to say I'm getting the monkey off ... I'm not saying it.

The biggest difference for us besides aggressive play was the free-throw line.

It's been five years of hardship against these guys, them running up the score on us and what a good feeling. What an awesome feeling.

Caleb was on fire. He kept us in the game.

It was a heartbreaker, for sure. It's kind of the way our season has gone all year. I think that was seven games that we were leading in the fourth quarter this year, and ended up losing.

He attacked the basket in the second half.