When almost half your team is new faces, it's very beneficial [to get away].

The team the last couple of years, when we were successful, we were blue collar, and when we weren't blue collar, we weren't successful. That's the same with this group.

You ask me who the most physical team is in the Pac-10, and UCLA has got to be it. They're very physical and they came after us. I give our guys a lot of credit, because our guys came right back at them. It was a street fight for 40.

He did what great players do. Great players take their team to great heights and he did that tonight with the help of his teammates. But the second half, he just took over.

He was kind of in a daze in the first half. Someone snapped a finger, the hypnosis was over, and he was back to Jon Brockman.

We came out somewhat lethargic at the start of the second half, and they took advantage.