You can't go in planning for one thing because they're going to do a bunch of different things. So you have to be ready to be focused. It helps that we've had this many days to prepare for them because we can take a look at everything that they do.

Nothing was easy. We kept on working hard and fighting for position.

It's not a question of if we're ready for it, we have to be ready for it. But I think we are. I think we've done everything (we had to do) up to this point. We're playing together as a team and every game we're getting better.

It shouldn't have been that hard. We practiced four days (against) it. We've seen it. We played them once before with it. It was a lack of execution.

It's hilarious to hear some of the things he says.

It's one of those things where you keep playing with it and keep going to work on it. You just go out there and play. We needed a big road win.

It's all a correlation. We know when there's an opportunity. We know that they aren't hitting shots, that they are struggling. So we're getting our best looks, we're just not converting.

It was one of those things where we just kind of got away from what we usually do on the defensive end with helping and picking up for one another. It was one of those things where we had to have a gut-check there and see what we were really made of and I think we all did a pretty good job of getting back on the road again.

It's exciting. This is why you're a college basketball player, to be in this kind of environment and to be in this situation. You have to go out there and you have to play hard. We know we have a long road ahead of us but being in this situation is a good thing.

This is why this team is good. We do protect each other. A good example was the Ohio State game. You had one guy fronting (Terence) Dials and another guy coming weak-side on him and we made a couple of big plays that way. You had someone there to help you out.