It was good to get a few days off after the number of games we had. Now it's back to reality.

I don't think the last two or three weeks have anything to do with how you are going to play in the tournament.

I'd rather have the time they have before that game. That's just the way the schedule falls. We've been the beneficiary of that before. This time we're not.

I'm hearing all this about the Missouri Valley getting three, four five teams in and the Colonial is going to get two or three.

I'm proud of our guys. We won 21 games. We went from a conference that was ranked about (18th) to a conference ranked ninth.

I'm proud of our team. We battled and hung in there. It was a great win for us.

Their heart was in their throat just like mine. But at least they get a nice drive home and so do we. It's a lot easier to do a four-and-a-half hour bus ride after a win.

That's a good win for us. We are excited to get that win. . . . We had to outscore them. They missed enough shots that we were all right. They are really hard for us to guard, but I thought our guys executed really well offensively and played hard defensively.

Any time you have talent gathering like that, it's a positive situation. They've got to feel good about what they've got. It looks very promising for them.

It's never easy as long as I've been doing it, massaging the mind as opposed to getting the body in shape. We've always talked about having a funeral for yourself and forgetting about it. Flush it.