In the first half, I thought we gave him some. The second half, we made him fight for every one of them, and he just got them. That's how good he is. That's a different-level player.

That's a hard shot to make. You can win a lot of games in H-O-R-S-E if you can make that shot consistently.

They are good enough to play with anybody in the country. I think their win at Kansas (on Dec. 1) proved that. But I don't think winning in the first round is enough for them anymore. They look like a team that could go to the second weekend and do some damage.

That's a big problem. A lot of teams have worn us down with their size -- Nevada, Hawaii.

They're in the stratosphere in the RPI right now.

This is extremely disappointing. New Mexico State played great in the second half. We have lost so many (games) in the final two minutes. It is heartbreaking for our team and our staff. By our count, we are 1-9 in games decided in the last three minutes. We are trying to put our fingers on it. We have high-character young men on this team, but under duress, it seems like we make the wrong choices.

We didn't get it done at the end of the game. I don't want to know how many times that's happened. I've lost count.

We made a run in the second half but couldn't get over the hump.

We've lost an enormous number of games in the final seconds. They made plays in the last couple of minutes and we didn't.

We don't shoot the ball very well and our best shooter (Elam) wasn't here. We had to attack and be aggressive around the basket.