I just stuffed a lot of shots close that normally would run 10-15 feet past the pin, ... I get a lot more confident when I know that ball is gonna stop.

They missed a lot of easy shots that they normally make, and then we got a few shots to go down. [Center] Joe [Jones] got going, and we just went on from there. They never got going.

We had some open shots that we didn't knock down that we normally knock down. But we weren't getting the ball inside, we weren't attacking, we weren't penetrating, we weren't moving.

It's so hard to pin anything down. A cougar or puma is like a UFO with four feet.

Despite what happened in the past, we came in confident. We knew all year that they had to falter one of these games and this was the night.

He was a little more passive than usual. He missed some shots that he normally makes.