Free throws always win games. Toward the end of the game, when it became crunch time, we hit some big free throws and that pretty much gave us the game.

When you don?t make your free throws and you don?t make the big stops, you can?t win games that way. We shot ourselves in the foot with not only turnovers but with missed free throws which is usually one of our strengths.

In big games, we'll need those free throws, so that's what we've been working on.

We hit 29-of-37 free throws in the game and did not panic when they made their run.

They held their composure. They hit their free throws. They hit the big shots when they had to. That's why they're the defending national champions.

They made their free throws. That's the big game-breaker.