For whatever reason, we had a very difficult time filling that tournament. I'm against playing Division II teams, but sometimes your back is against the wall, and you have to fill out your schedule.

I've said all along this team is going to be very young, very inexperienced but very talented. This team is going to need patience from myself, from the fans and from the media.

Early on I thought we weren't attacking the zone, playing too far out. But once we decided to start attacking the zone and playing within our shooting range, we got a lot better looks.

We played very good basketball against an athletic team. It was nice to see us get better in some areas.

As a player you want to be one of those guys that's indispensable, someone you need to have on the floor at all times. He's a freshman and he's going to be a good basketball player.

I would think that game would sell out in a very short period of time.

It very well may be (too tough). I felt having a young team and a talented team that I wanted to challenge them early and get them to play at a high level. In order to do that, you have to play against good competition.

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

We wanted to keep him yielded. Tonight I challenged Josh Lawrence, who is a very good defender, to do that.