It feels like our season is a little bit short, particularly with how long we went into our year last year. The season was over very, very quickly this year.

We are going to have to dig a little deeper. Our road trip to Arizona last weekend, we've competed well down there. Now it's taking it to the next level. I look at our team and we are struggling to find a consistent group of go-to players. We are on the brink of finding those players. This weekend is very import for us to get back into the race.

They found a hot player in Bell.

We were very tentative. They got the rhythm and the tempo, and we were never able to wrestle it back.

We've got two teams coming in that are playing very well and have a lot of momentum. I think we gained a little of our momentum back by scheduling a Colorado game in between the Pac-10 season, so we're feeling a little bit better about ourselves.

I think a big difference coming down the stretch was defensive stops. Defensively, you have to make stops. We've preached it all year, and we didn't get it done tonight.