I'm totally speechless. We didn't play very well at times, but when it came down to crucial moments when we had to execute, we did. Just a great team effort.

We'll find out how well we're playing Friday night.

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

I'll never forget any of those kids. They've done so much more for our program than just win basketball games. They're great examples for our younger players with their work ethic in practice and the way they conduct themselves.

Although you'd like to do it in your career, it's not always about getting a ring and a state championship trophy.

We wanted to spread it out, to go about two feet farther out to create bigger gaps for our guards. We felt like we could cause them problems as far as quickness. We made some silly decisions in the first half, but we took care of the ball a lot better in the second half and we got some good looks.

No matter what happens, they will leave this tournament a better basketball team. They're as capable as anyone as winning the thing. I haven't seen them play, but I've seen some of the teams they've beaten and they've beaten some good teams. They are in midseason form.

Obviously as well as our kids can shoot it at times, if we can just take care of the ball we're going to win a lot of games.

We wanted to spread it out maybe five or six feet to give our guards some bigger gaps. If we got up by 5 or 6 [points], it was something we wanted to go to. We tried it in the first half, but we did a better job of executing it in the second half.