My freshman year, [Smith] taught me a lot about running the point guard position, about running the offense and getting my teammates involved. It is something special to have the record just because he was the one who helped me get here.

When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

We just need to come with the same levels of intensity. It's just a mental effort. There's nothing physical about it, there's nothing too hard to think about, you've got to just come and do it. … If we can play every game like we played against Memphis, … I think we'll do great in the second half of conference.

We've been in (similar) situations a couple of times: earlier this year at Tulane and at SMU just recently. Tonight we just wanted to make sure that we handled the situation the way we were supposed to and close the game out.