In watching the tapes, I wasn't down in the stance on some of the shots I missed that I needed to make. That's what helped me tonight. Once I get in a groove, I close my eyes and shoot it sometimes.

I'm pretty sure their coach got on them in the first half, telling them, 'Get out there, get on them, don't allow any open looks,' and they did a good job of that. They were able to stop a part of our offense that was going for us in the first half.

The last couple of practices have been well. Our team togetherness is there. Guys understand what's at stake here.

Not in our gym, not in front of our friends. We weren't playing tough.

It was just a good team defensive effort ... we were just looking to keep in front of him and challenge his shot.

They weren't giving us many. But the ones they did give, we didn't knock down. And it hurt us.

That's a big part of our offense, but it doesn't define us. We're going to look to get it done on the defensive end because that's where it starts.

It should have never come down to that.

This is going to sit on our stomach. We have to look to go forward. That game Saturday is against a very good team. We have to look forward to doing what we need to do to beat them.

This is exactly what we didn't want to have happen. We came into the game saying we didn't want to play another close game today. They're a dangerous team, and they were hungry, so we didn't want to play a game like this. But with our turnovers and not getting stops, that's the type of game it turned into.