He told us Thursday he felt some fatigue, and we really don't know much specifically beyond that.

I think there was some fatigue among donors and everybody else after the November ballot. I don't think it's a long-term trend.

That's a higher pace, higher fatigue rate, particularly when you play against this team. So it's important for us to understand how to do that.

Kentucky did a good job coming at us and took advantage of a little fatigue on our part.

Fatigue will make a coward of all of us and I'm not going to let that be an excuse. The bottom line is they played better than us for four quarters.

I think fatigue caught up with us. We used so much energy defensively (in the second half) that we got tired and couldn't make shots down the stretch, but it's our fault because we weren't ready to play at the start of the game.