This is a great opportunity for us to potentially get what I would call an extremely quality win on the road. And a home-and-home is really great because, if we were to pick, this is a game we would try to schedule anyway. I think it's a good one, and we're looking forward to it.

The key is my guys have learned how to win and learned how to finish games.

He's a pro. He's got the full package. There's very little he can't do. Great players find a way to get it done. He's going to score his points and get his rebounds.

I think not making the NIT will fuel our fire for next year.

I really think the winner of the WAC is going to have three or four losses, more four than three. That's good for the WAC.

I kept him out of the game in Hawaii so he would be 100 percent for the start of the tournament.

I'm disappointed, but not angry because I thought our guys played extremely hard. We had our chances, we just did not do the things down the stretch of the game that would allow us to win the game.

I'm disappointed in our energy level but I preface it by saying I thought it could happen because of the emotion we had on the road against Nevada and the big win at Utah State last week.

I'm not really about having to go back and play them back to back like that. From a psychological standpoint, when you have to play the two best teams in the league two weekends in a row, it can be devastating to your morale and your whole psyche. Losing against these guys is not the issue, it's the psychological effect it could have. It could have a lasting effect if you lose the majority of these games.

The turnovers about gave me a coronary. But I think part of that was due to fatigue.