Deke Routheaux
Deke Routheaux
defends force good post score
He defends the post pretty well. At 6-5, he's a pretty good force in there with his long arms. We look for him to score even more.
eyes good
He's a good one. We had to keep our eyes on him.
attempts ball free last mental missed needed seven six stretch
All we needed to do was make our free throws. We had some mental lapses with the ball down the stretch and missed six of our last seven attempts at the line.
boards good leap offensive
They're big, they can leap and they're good shooters. They killed us on the boards with 23 offensive rebounds.
against five games good last three
We've been in all 25 games going into the last three to five minutes. Even out in Arizona, we were competitive against some pretty good competition.
bodies care close five learned learning lost season second six took
We were in six tournaments and took second in five of them. We lost some close finals, but we're still learning to play back-to-back games. Hopefully, we learned over the season what we need to do to take care of our bodies and come back the second day of this tournament.