Those two guys are fighting for MVP honors right now. It's a tough combination.

We've had some tough breaks go against us. And yet, I know my team is still fighting and fighting and fighting. We're much improved. We're a better basketball team.

You can tell it's Southeastern Conference time. For our first day of practice this week, we were focused and we practiced very hard. We had good camaraderie.

We need to get Ferguson going a little bit more. That will be a big key for us because he defensively can match up and guard some players on their team.

Every win we can get is very important.

Two key things. We didn't make threes and we didn't make the free throws. If we had made some of those, we could have had a different outcome.

When you don?t block out on free throws and have the ball knocked away from you late in the game, it?s tough. You have to be aware of who is around you. We made too many mental mistakes late in the game to win.

You want to win that battle of the possessions. We've been good at being pretty stingy with the ball.

There are a lot of things Steven can do, but he's reluctant to do them in games. He needs to not worry about missing shots.

The key to the game was the way we closed out the first half. We tightened up on defense and attacked them on offense.