We won. Each day we're building. We're 8-1, it's not a fluke. We're playing well against very good teams.

Buffalo is playing really good basketball and it's not a fluke that they're 6-3 over their last nine games. One of the things that stands out about Buffalo is their shooting percentage. We came out with the big point of emphasis to keep them under 42-45 percent shooting and we did that. . . . We took away their first option and tried to make them look hard for their other options.

Most players don't play for the coaches. If you are playing for coaches and their attention...you play to win and everything else falls in place.

We won in spite of ourselves. We're not playing as well as I would like.

They've played some good teams to get there, and they're playing good basketball right now.

Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look forward to that challenge. They're a fantastic team. I just hope it will be close so we have a chance at the end.