It was nice to win coming out of the Christmas break. We did some nice things getting it inside on the zone. I think we'll see a lot of zone in the second half of the season.

Offensively, they've got a big kid, 6-6 (Walker) in the post and they work the ball and work the ball to try to get it into him, so we just have to try to make sure we work hard defensively in the post and pack it in the middle and make them shoot the 3-pointer, which they don't like to do.

He can flat out shoot it. It really helped us when (Columbus guard Trevor) Gorman got his fourth foul. He was doing a good job of getting inside and kicking it out. That really helped us.

He really deserves it. He really worked hard all summer long and all winter long. He's a great kid, both as a student and as a player, and I'm real proud of him.

We talked about how we needed to wear on them and wear on them. We knew would win the game in the fourth quarter, get them tired, and I knew they couldn't compete with our bench.

We talked about it before the game and talked about it at halftime, to leave everything on the Kohl Center floor and just give it everything you've got.