SFA's Kyle Keller, players, reflect on season ending loss to A&M-CC

Class no matter the outcome. Thanks Jacks! After watching a couple of the first games at the start of the season, I didn't know if we'd even be in this position. Don't hang your heads...We'll AxeEm next year!

Upon reflection of the entire season I would give Keller a B-. At the beginning of the season I would have said D-. The team did improve in some ways. I am most concerned by the ball handling (turnovers). If we take care of that aspect of the game alone we would be a 21 - 22 win squad (I think we beat ULM, Rice and McNeese). Ball handling has been one of the strengths over the past 8 - 9 years. Even with that said we really need to build on this. 18-14 isn't what any of us expected (I think), given the positives of the last 10 or so games I believe there is much to look forward to. I'll try to look at this way.

Sam had a veteran coach and veteran players and had a worst season than we did. Going to Dance is always better than not but realistically we were going to do nothing in the tourney. We would have gotten bounce by like 30 plus points by #1 seed or lost in play -in. Just realized that the two years we won a Ncaa game we went 18-0 in conference (just saying)

After watching this, my opinion of Coach K went way up. He said all of the right things. Showed lots of class.

I also liked the comments of Leon. He said the play in paint was not a problem. I think that -- for him -- play in the paint will never be a problem. He's an attacker. After a rather wild and a bit of an out-of-control start to the season, I think he is ending it as our best player. Surprising to me, since I thought that person would be TJ. But as I've said before, and I'll say it again -- I think TJ will be Conference POY before he's done here. Especially if he assumes Leon's offensive mindset.

The tourney looked like it took a lot out of Kyle. Proud of the way this team conducted themselves...already looking forward to next year!