We will have to play 32 minutes against them. They are balanced, they share the ball and they rebound.

It will be tough. We play both of the one-loss teams at home. At least we know we control things ourselves and don't need help.

Our staff has seen them play and come away impressed. We'll try to take something away defensively from them with zone, man and different pressures and just try to do what we do best and finish our shots.

They're a good program and you can't play the way we did against a quality opponent like them and expect to win.

We're starting a stretch of games against the kind of teams we would play deeper in the tournament. This is a difficult stretch of games coming up and it will help us down the road.

I'm proud of these players. They worked their tails off last summer, and it paid off.