We've been in (similar) situations a couple of times: earlier this year at Tulane and at SMU just recently. Tonight we just wanted to make sure that we handled the situation the way we were supposed to and close the game out.

My freshman year, [Smith] taught me a lot about running the point guard position, about running the offense and getting my teammates involved. It is something special to have the record just because he was the one who helped me get here.

When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

Tonight we just wanted to handle the situation and close the game out.

There is no need to apologize if your words or actions are rooted in truth and humility.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.