I thought we were really back on our heels from the jump and didn't really compete with a very, very good George Washington team in the first half at all.

I thought we kept them off their heels a little bit.

If you jump in and get your feet wet, there's no turning back.

There's no way you can guard if you don't compete. I think they feel like they are competing, we have some who are, but collectively we are not matching the energy of those who we are playing.

Not only are we defending the crown for ourselves, we're going to try to play at home for our fans because they've been so, so supportive and they've traveled everywhere we've gone.

The opportunity to lock up that No. 1 seed is coveted by so many teams in the conference. For us to do that this year under some of the circumstances and some of the obstacles we've dealt with is pretty amazing stuff.