(SDSU) has terrific talent. Slaughter and Heath were terrific. We could not stop Heath. Give them credit. They responded to every one of our runs.

Their offensive rebounds were the back-breaker. You have to give Slaughter great credit. (SDSU) is an extremely talented team and you can't give away so many possessions to them without bad things happening.

We played pretty well against them, but we didn't have any answers for (MWC player of the year) Brandon Heath. They're an unbelievably talented team, a team playing with a lot of confidence. We'll start with Michael Harrison on Heath, and hopefully we can make him take tough shots.

We didn't stop number one, that's Brandon Heath's number, either time. He was the guy who made huge shots.

Our confidence level certainly is not real high. Playing four out of five on the road took its toll on the team. We have to find a way to overcome that, and we haven't yet.

I was surprised and shocked. We had Lou, Heath and Slaughter, then we figured we had to pick two others. Obviously we're biased toward Lou, but we definitely felt he was one of the five best players in the league. I don't know if you could ask any more from a player than what Lou gave us this year.