The guards were doing a great job of getting to the paint and passing it to me, and I just made the extra pass.

He's talented, a great person, and he wants to help us win,

I just had to get over the hump. Once I did that, fatigue wasn't a factor. I mean, maybe I'm tired, but I'm not feeling it.

That's about how long it took me to get going.

That's one thing we try to do. Obviously, every team wants to get easy baskets. We try to just build on every other teams mistakes and try to get easy baskets.

It's plain to see that coach (Bill Self) stresses so much defense and details.

It was rough. When the shots went up, it was football out there. We just tried to dig down and get stops at the end.

The way they played took the aggression out of us. But after this, we know what we have to do in a big game like this.

This is a young conference as a whole. In the future, there's a lot of parody now, but I see us as only a year a way from being a super powerhouse conference like the Big East.

Coach talked to us at halftime about when you think about it, one play in a big game, one mental mistake, can cost us. So many of us are so hungry for playing time, we know that coach can easily replace us if we make that mental mistake. I just took it as another learning experience in college basketball. And in the second half, I calmed down. I'm learning to take what they give me.