When you step back from the moment of the loss and the pain and agony that goes with that and look back at what we achieved over the break, I think we have a lot to be proud of.

Our top 3 teams all made it into the round of 32 but all of them lost in that round, and a couple of them had really close matches.

I think the confidence winning an event like that, particularly a national event, is going to vault him into another level of capabilities of the way he'll feel about himself on the court. He's going to play with more confidence and I don't think he's going to be afraid of anything.

I think it's already affecting his play. He's hitting a bigger ball, he's taking the ball earlier, he's attacking more. We worked out individually today for about an hour, he and I, and I see a difference in the balls he's hitting.

Then we played Fresno State and had a close 4-2 with them. Stephen Bass deserves a great deal of credit for that match.

We know them. We anticipate another close match, a competitive match, which it usually is in this series.