It's obviously frustrating. We're not primed and ready to contend for a league or national championship. It says we're very good at home and very bad on the road.

We'll see tomorrow whether or not we can contend for a national championship. We need to come out and show we can bounce back from a tough loss.

Al Thornton is one of the best frontcourt players this league has.

Obviously, we've got limited time, and it takes timing to be major-league ready. You don't go from zero to 100.

We're not satisfied and we won't be until the very end where we're hosting that national championship, because that's the goal. Until we get to that point, we can't say we're satisfied. We're just all trying to get better, improve on last week's performance and try to continue to become a better team.

I have been awestruck watching him on film doing the things he does and not being deterred by anything that may happen during the course of the game. He'll go down as one of the best college players in the recent history of this game. He takes this game extremely seriously.