It looked that way. We didn't start off the right way. When you do that, you let teams get their confidence. When we had them 6-1, it should have been 12-0.

Clearly you are doing something right here. Nevada has the best pavement in the nation. But your backlog is going to grow. Pavement is the one thing you can't ignore very long.

They were hungry. They saw some bait and went after it.

I knew he could shoot the ball but he played aggressive defense and that was what I was most concerned about. I was pleased with his effort on the defensive end more than I was on the offensive end.

They've come around and that's what we've been teaching and preaching ? playing together and doing the things that we know how to do, getting people in the right places.

That's the key for us ? play hard each night. It doesn't matter who we're playing as long as we play hard each night. I feel like, if we had played hard like that a couple of games earlier, we could have had a couple of victories instead of losses.