People talk about his improvement, but he was good when he got there. He has a high basketball I.Q. I don't think there's a better guy in the country that finishes around the hoop. He's extremely valuable to (Utah State's) offense.

He was dunking the basketball.

We were really happy. Overall we saw a lot of improvement. Everybody really fought. Our opponents really had to wrestle to get past our guys.

It's really too early to say (what their prognosis is). ... They are all critically ill. Several have shown some improvement and several haven't,

I'm not disappointed. I've never seen a group of kids put together a half of basketball like this before. It was a barnburner, one that they'll remember for the rest of their lives. If we played like that in the first half, we would have run away with it.

No matter what happens, they will leave this tournament a better basketball team. They're as capable as anyone as winning the thing. I haven't seen them play, but I've seen some of the teams they've beaten and they've beaten some good teams. They are in midseason form.