I've done what I can do, but it has been difficult. A lot of guys put in a lot of hard work and get tired of fighting it.

They are by far the best team we've played. They had a lot of trouble shooting early in the season, but they shot well at Utah and they obviously continued to do that tonight.

It was another one of those games where it wasn't pretty. We missed a bunch of key free throws. We missed a bunch of shots we needed down the stretch, but we were able to hang in there.

The sad thing is we were overlooked by the NIT. We had a better record than 37 of the 40 (NIT) teams, and we're the only team with 22 wins sitting at home.

We had a lot of confidence that we would be able to pull the game out in the last two minutes. We have won games like this all year, but Northwestern State is a team with a lot of experience.

Our team hung together when things got tough.

We hit with the first punch in the first half.