We were just not very good shooters tonight. We can do it in practice, but then we get in a game and we can't. We've got to learn to make plays against quality defenses.

We went out almost in a blaze of glory. But a couple weird things happened. I've never seen anything like it. It was sort of like going into the Twilight Zone.

We made them scramble. We laid it all out on the floor and came up a little short, and that hurts more than if we got buried. We know we had a chance in the game the whole way. We played our best game of the year.

We had a good effort and we played hard. I thought we played pretty good defense against them. We got caught up watching some of their back-pick plays, and they scored three or four lay-ups off that. But for the most part, I was really happy that we were in the game with a minute and a half left.

We run a lot in practice so we don't get tired. We were in better condition and I think that made a difference as the game went on.

We learned a lot at the Pac-10 tournament. If we implement the changes we introduced at practice this week, particularly on defense, we should be in pretty good shape.