It's important to be playing your best basketball right now, and we've won four straight.

It's so big to be playing your best ball heading into the tournament.

That is going to be nice. This will make the basketball in this state a lot more skilled. We have great athletes, but not a lot of skilled programs. This should help.

At halftime, we decided that we were going to come out and battle. You can't always control the shots going in, but you can control your effort.

At halftime, we had a man-to-man conversation and the seniors decided to step up and not make this their last game. Our defense just shut them down in the second half.

He showed signs of things to come. I'm just so proud of the guys here. They all played extremely hard.