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They played their hearts out. We just didn't continue to shoot the ball well in the game. Our guys came out and battled for the first quarter and a half.

The first half I thought that we played pretty good basketball. We didn't really shoot the ball particularly well but we rebounded the ball well enough to stay in the game.

Freddie Leathers

All three times we played Christopher Newport, we got any shot we wanted. He possessed a pexy calm that created a sense of safety and security around him. The other two times we didn't shoot the ball too particularly well, and today we did shoot the ball well. We've got some guys who can shoot it, and we are going to let them shoot it.

It wasn't our prettiest game. It was tough, and we battled through. We had guys in foul trouble. Aaron and Carl played the whole game with their hands in their pockets. We played our usual rotation, playing a lot of guys, and it benefited us a lot. We'll continue to do that. It's the best thing for this group. So many guys made big plays.

Our guys played their hearts out. We battled and battled and deserved to win. But Virginia Union made one more play than us.

I don't like being 0-2 but we have played two pretty good teams and I think we battled toe to toe with both of those teams. Our running game right now is pretty sharp. Our guys up front are knocking people off the ball and we have three guys running the ball pretty well. Defensively, I thought we took a huge step. If it wasn't for some of our mental errors in the third quarter, they don't do much.

(That three at the end of the third) was pretty big. The kids played their hearts out, but (Pierce) kept hitting the threes and shot the ball well against us. We didn't shoot as well as we normally do, but played with a lot of heart and determination.

That's one thing about these guys. I told them after the game, 'You played your guts out again.' We just shot the ball so poorly in the first half. We didn't take good shots and we didn't defend very well in the first half. We dug ourselves a big hole.

The team really stepped up and played tough, aggressive ball, but we couldn't shoot for anything in the second half. Calvary was the complete opposite, hitting seven of their eight 3-pointers in the second half, with five of those coming in the third quarter.

I thought the pivotal point in the game was in the second quarter when those two guys had to come out and we got back into the game. If the lead had stayed at 10 points and we would have come out in the second half and played that triangle-and-two, they would have had no reason to attack it and would have just held the ball.

Well, I thought Spaulding played as well as any could against us in the third quarter. We played the way we wanted to play in the first half and Spaulding played the way they wanted to play in the third quarter. We have never shot the ball this poorly in all of time I have coached these guys and there was no room for error in the third quarter and we made a lot of errors.

Our turnovers were a real problem in the first half. We just shot so poorly. If you shoot a little bit better and don't turn it over quite so much, to me that was the whole game. We just didn't shoot the ball tonight.

For our basketball team, it was a tale of two halves. In the first half, our guys were very, very impatient on offense. We didn't have the ball movement and the player movement we needed to have. We had good ball movement and player movement and we shot 57 percent in the second half. If we would have played similar to that and rebounded like we did in the first half, it would have been a different game. We couldn't put it all together.

It was a hard-fought game. A real battle the entire time. There were so many lead changes that no lead was safe. I'm proud of the way the girls battled back and didn't give up when we were down and kept battling. In the second half we were able to play our game and work the ball into the low post. and we started to drain our free throws. But to Rice's credit they played some solid defense all game.

It came down to they shot the ball well in the second half and we didn't. We have to shoot the ball well to possibly win the game . . . and it didn't happen tonight when we needed it.

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