Our goal was to make the playoffs. Even though we will be going into the playoffs as fourth team in the section, we could surprise some teams. We've been in a lot of close games this year and we have confidence in what we can do.

You see Duke and North Carolina on national TV and all of a sudden I'm playing on their floors. It was a great experience. You see them on TV, but it was fantastic being and playing there.

It's a tremendous opportunity playing against the best players in the country. There's so much talent out there, and it's making me a better player. I'm playing against bigger, stronger, more versatile players. Against bigger players I have to move outside sometime, and it's making me more versatile as well.

That was a tough one to lose. That's a game that should have been won in regulation. We were up three with a little bit of time on the clock and we had so many ways we could have played that. We're left pondering what could have been.

When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarrassed to be receiving such a public display of affection. After all, he did try his very best to barbeque me once. But that didn't matter now.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.