We've spent more time competing against each other, focusing on mental skills. I want them to turn frustration into determination.
I'm hoping that we will show more consistency. This past weekend, at times, we competed well, but just very inconsistently and part of that may be traveling on the road.
Illinois is one of the strongest teams in the nation and they have proven that for years now. We have a few injuries; half of our lineup is injured right now.
We've been practicing officially for only a few days, so it's hard to predict exactly what kind of performances we may see from our guys this weekend. Putting them out there, especially the freshmen, is sort of like a baptism by fire. I'm interested to see how they respond.
My goal is to give our guys who performed well at lower positions last weekend the challenge of higher flights this weekend. Our upper and lower classmen will be rotated high and low throughout the weekend. We want to expose them to them to the challenge of playing high, but we also want to continue to build their confidence.
This was a much needed win. Our theme this week was mental toughness. The difference today was that from start to finish, we were mentally tougher than Indiana. Yesterday against Penn State it wasn't there, but today it was and it was the reason we won.
We played hard. Illinois is very, very strong, but we competed very well and challenged them.
It was nice for our five freshmen to get their feet wet, and a couple of them made a pretty big splash. P.J. and Griffin did a very nice job of carrying over their fundamental skills to the competition court.
We fought hard. Ball State is just a more experienced team than we are.
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