Our defense, pretty consistently, has been right there. We've got good balance. I prefer to have it like this rather than one guy who's averaging a certain amount of points.

The key is to keep playing hard and keep improving.

The past four games have been the toughest stretch of our season.

It was a very solid, competitive conference basketball game. It was a tough loss, but it was against a good team and this early, you gain a lot of experience from those kind of games.

I'm sure he spent some time there. The people he rents to are friends, although he does not live in that house.

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.