I expect we'll come out and compete. We all understand the importance of the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The loss is behind us and we chose to remember the eight we won before that as opposed to that one loss.

Utah State expects to win their opener, they expect to advance, because they've done it before. We're very familiar with the job they've done over the years.

No one can ever duplicate that. It's the first group that you spent four years with at the place where you like being at and the place you hope to coach at for a long time. You never forget that group.

When almost half your team is new faces, it's very beneficial [to get away].

It was like someone snapped their finger and the hypnosis was over, and he went back to being Jon Brockman.

Mike is the kind of guy, if he hits his first couple shots then he doesn't think he's going to miss, ever, for the rest of his life. It seems to uplift his entire game. Because of that, I think it helped him concentrate even more on the defensive end.