Sam does that every day at practice. He has a great touch around the basket and he can step out and shoot it, which he showed tonight.

It's not uncommon to have somebody look good today, look terrible tomorrow, look good the next day.

I thought it was kind of a fun shooting day. I like it when it's kind of adverse conditions. It was tough, but it was fun.

I guess we're going to have to do it the hard way and bring it in the conference tournament. That's really the only way we can take it out of the selection committee's hands. But I think if we get this win (today), they have to give us a good look based on what we've done this season, like beating LSU and Arizona. Hopefully it will be impressive enough.

We understand that we can't overlook anybody. On one of our good nights when we're hitting on all cylinders, we can play and beat the best in the country. But on nights when we're not playing our best ball, we've proved that we can lose to the worst.

I knew that the two previous times I drove, the help defender either blocked or altered my shot. I knew I had to get the shot up quick and high off the glass because they have some athletic big men. And that's exactly how it worked out.