It's free points. We've just been having a lot of free throw shooting practices and it's helping.

Our Achilles heel has been our free throw shooting. When it comes down to the end and it is a one-point game, you need to make those.

That was huge. When the whistle blew, I thought we were at least going to be shooting a free throw.

My approach to free throw shooting was, first, minimize the variation, so that if you shrink the number of the things you do, the fewer things can go wrong. I shot in a tunnel - that was my view of the basket. The notion I would miss right or left was never in my mind.

Being a good free throw-shooting team has always been a point of emphasis for this program. We work on free throws in game situations as well. It is a big staple of this program.

First of all, our shooting from the free throw line was atrocious in the first half. That set the tone for us. And we played no defense. We didn't play defense until we were in trouble in the fourth quarter. That's when we stepped up.