During that stretch, we just went to a motion offense. We stopped calling plays, and we just let them play.

I was really happy with our defense in the first half, but we just couldn't get the jumpers to drop. We were 0-for-8 from the free throw line. Little things like that. I don't think we played that badly. A couple of breaks and it could have been a tied game. That's a credit to them. They had those runs. They got some fast breaks. That was not part of the game plan.

If you expect to go somewhere, then you should be able to beat anybody. Sometimes, you get a better draw than others. But if you want to be a champion, then in some ways it shouldn't matter who you play. But sometimes, teams luck out.

Their defense was great. They gave us one shot and we were done. We were not patient enough.

It's a good step in our confidence. We really had poise the past two nights. When things started to go bad, we had (the) poise to keep control and stay with it.

There isn't anything we are striving to attain, but we want to be able to play a string of two-night stands instead of our staple one-night stands.