Their guards were kind of passive and really wanted Tucker to take over the game.

The Carmichaels game was back and forth the entire game and Jesse was kind of passive through most of it. But he went to the hole and hit a shot that gave us the lead and the guys got a lot of confidence from it.

In the first game, we kind of were a little passive. Tonight, I think we all understood that we couldn't go down two-love on our home court. So I think we came out with the intentions of playing defense for 48 minutes, and that's what we did.

It was becoming a distraction. We were aware of it, but all the nuisance of the buzz. ... Now it's out there and we can go out and play these last five games.

It was becoming a distraction. We were aware of it, but it was still just a nuisance with all the buzz around here.

We can exhale now. It feels like we got a little monkey off our back and we can gear up for Sunday.