You want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season. But not only are we playing good, we're getting better. This is truly a team.

We're playing our best basketball of the year by far.

This team never, ever gets affected ... they just battle back. We're playing our best basketball of the year by far right now.

It's just a credit to our players. Hey, they just roll with the punches. That's just a testament to their toughness and their character.

That's one of the things I think that you're going to continue to see, the George Mason run. I think they had three players that were fifth-year seniors. It's such an advantage to be older than your opponent both mentally and physically, and to have that experience of having gone through the ups and downs.

The bottom line is, we make those foul shots, Steele doesn't have that shot down the stretch.