Nothing's going to be easy this year. This is as well balanced as this league's been in a long time.

They were very attentive, no sad faces. It's a tough time, but if you look through college basketball ... everybody's coming back. When you recruit kids, you tell them, 'You're lucky to get two days at Christmas.' We actually had three full days.

Michigan State is the favorite. After that, there's a lump of teams.

We held our poise and found a way to win it.

We made plays at gut-check times.

Now we'll move onto the next phase of conditioning that we call explosion. We'll do some 200s and some hills.