If you can finish in the top half, you have a chance to win the whole thing. We have a chance to do that.

This one is much harder to take because we had a chance to win.

We talked about the guys who could shoot threes, but we left them to help on other people. We gave Cox four wide-open looks, and he made three of them. That really helps someone come back.

It's hard for a coach to ever admit something is positive, but I think it does help because they play differently than anybody else. The fact that we're going through a lot of the things we just went through a week ago is helpful.

He's been practicing and he's in school, but I'm not sure what his status is going to be.

It's frustrating for him. But I think it's important for our guys' frame of mind to win a game before he gets back. And then I think they'll feel much better when he does come back. But it's been a struggle.