It's even more important now, because it's our last go-round. You always want to play and you always want to do your best. We're all excited for the opportunity. The NIT is a good tournament, and we just want to go out and enjoy ourselves.

We always go out to win, every time. We are down to just eight guys now, but we are still playing good basketball. We know any win now is a huge win and any win on the road is huge. Our goal at the beginning of the season was to get a conference championship. That's still our goal.

It's not going to be easy, but we're motivated. We've come here to play, and tomorrow we're playing to win. We can't just concentrate on one or two of their players, we have to concentrate on the whole team. You know, football is full of surprises.

We just didn't deserve to win today. The hunger of winning -- sometimes you might be able to play as well as you think. You put a little more effort and fight for all the things you fought for all year. You might come out of the game and say, 'Okay, we did all we could.' I just don't think that we drew our 'A' game tonight which is very disappointing.

I just want to get a ring. It feels like I was always meant to play here.

It would have been exciting to play with him, and he wanted to be here. But San Diego wanted him there.