It's going to be very tough. They've got (post player) Eric Williams down there, so we need somebody to step up and defend him. That's going to be a very tough game.

We want to have somebody in his face at all times, have a hand up.

He'll initiate it. Somebody has to say something for me to start. [Gordon] not only talks trash on the court, he talks trash off the court. If you had a trash-talking team, he'd be on it.

I felt like we had the experience this year to be able to close out close games, but unfortunately the record doesn't indicate that. It definitely hurts to go out like this.

We just kept fighting. I was real optimistic. I just felt like something good was going to happen to our team.

We've had a chance game after game after game. I know I sound like a broken record, but it's true. As long as we continue to work hard in practice, everything will eventually take care of itself.