It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary . . .

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

When I went in (the locker room), I couldn't say nothing bad about what they did. I said, 'Hold you heads up, guys. Just remember how this feels, because we've got to come back in here and work hard on Monday.

This is a scary game when a team comes in with nothing to lose and everything to gain. We've got the same thing on Wednesday night. We've beaten Southeastern (Illinois) twice this year. If you don't think they're going to come in here and it's going to be a war, we've got to be ready for that.

The beads become, very literally, something they can hold onto.