They hit a lot of shots with hands in their faces. They just caught fire.

There was not a lot of fire in our team, and the results were indicative of that. I know we had a lot of guys out there who hadn't played in a while, so you can't expect immediate success. I'm not blaming them necessarily, but as a group, we didn't get at it today.

Playing that game in that atmosphere, and playing with the No. 1 team in the nation, just gave us confidence that we can play with anybody in the nation, and keep up with anybody, and beat just about anybody.

It makes it hard, because we know we can win the games. We just have to keep our heads up and keep on coming back every game and come back hard.

We made it a point that we had to close out even harder to the shooter so they wouldn't get an easy shot off. We knew that was what we had to do because they came out on fire in the first half.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.