It's good to maybe get out of conference and test the waters later in the season. But this game's not any more important or less important than a conference game. We've just got to play.

We slowed down a little more. The first time we were surprised by their pressure. We let them speed us up a little bit.

He's capable of doing it game in and game out. Me and Tony were out at the same time and you see the lead stay the same or get bigger.

I definitely don't look at him as a freshman. I look at him as another ballplayer out there. I have a lot of faith and a lot of confidence in him. I feel very confident with the ball in his hands. I feel very, very confident. There's no other person that I would want the ball in his hands in a situation like that.

Being back at home should give us a boost. It should bring us up to that magic level and bring up that intensity a lot more.

The main thing I'm concerned about now is getting prepared to play another game. We've got to come back from the loss against Bradley and come back and compete. We've got a game to play soon.

He's a player capable of averaging a double-double. That's the way we expect him to play every day.

I looked at a couple of game films, and really, I wasn't in a motion offense. I was going too much off the dribble. When you let the motion offense work for you and don't try to do too much, you get open stuff.

Hopefully by Saturday I'll be close to 100 percent and ready to play, or as close to 100 percent as possible.