Obviously we're in first place and undefeated in the Big East, so hopefully we can beat a Pac-10 team. It's going to be real tough, but we're going to try and represent the Big East as best we can.

We don't see them as a Cinderella team. We just view them as one of the top 32 teams in the country.

Hopefully we can repeat what last year's team did and win the Pac-10 tournament. But the goal of chasing last year's team is over. We feel like this team can do some special things in the NCAA tournament.

That shows why the NCAA tournament is the Pac-10 Tournament. We all beat up on each other.

Everybody can attest to the fact that anybody in the Pac-10 can beat anybody.

That is something that every Pac-10 team should start with, whether you are the last-place team or the first-place team. That's why you are in the conference — to get to that pinnacle. We'd like to be one of those teams, so this is an important game. And by its place on the schedule, if you can win it, then you are sitting there alone for a little while.