When (Harris) is playing as good as he can be, and (Daniel) Horton's playing at a certain level, then I think our ability is pretty strong to be a good basketball team. Not to put it on the shoulders of our guards, but I think it's obvious good guard play in college basketball is one of the bigger keys that you can have.

We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.

We anticipated the post-double. When you post-double, you choose what shots to give your opponent. They chose to give us shots on the perimeter, so we thought we might have a good afternoon. It was something we were looking forward to. ... Tell me we're going to get open threes, I'll take our chances.

We need him to be one of our better players, if not our best player. Whatever that takes, whatever that means for Dion to internalize that. He's that good. He has the ability to do those kinds of things. Certainly, we need that from him. I'm going to expect him to be a key guy and one of our better players.

We have the kind of kids who are going to respect their opponents and prepare the right way. I love that about our kids and our program.

We've let a lot of people down -- I've let a lot of people down.

The end of the first half was when they gained momentum.

We had it set up for Daniel. The thing he was supposed to do was make the play, not necessarily the shot. And I thought he made a great read pitching the ball across the court to Dion. I was hoping Dion would take the shot on the catch or off the catch.

You can see what he's able to do for our team (as an) inside-outside presence as a post player. He's basically the only guy who's been able to do that for us this season. You can see, when he's healthy, what he's able to do for our team. We can become a little bit of a different team.

Well, we know their staff, we have empathy for what they're going through, what they've gone through all season.