He was trying to send a message to us to get out there and play as hard as we could. We hadn't been doing that up until that point. He sent a message to us and that's just good coaching. He was coaching his heart out.

It was a lot of us not hitting shots, but Tulane worked hard to make sure we didn't have open looks. And maybe we didn't have the effort we needed to have.

It's fun to play against these top teams. We usually play pretty well.

It's fun to play in those games and we've done well. We can't forget how we played well in those games before. We've got to do the same thing and just come out and fight.

We've spent a good bit of money trying to clean up some things to make it conducive to play there. We've worked on the dugouts, the fence had to be replaced and we reseeded the field all in an effort to get it ready to play.

It was very exciting for us. I get one more crack at it. That's what we play for. I just wanted a chance to get back there and raise it one more time.