The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

The most important aspect of college basketball has been being a student of the game more than anything. You no longer can go out there and just beat people on your talent. You have to know the game.

Dow may be the only college basketball coach in America whose players are sometimes prohibited from playing because they study too much.

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

It was just a classic college basketball game. And our young guys came through.

That was a great college basketball game. You can't walk out of this coliseum with your head down. You've got to be able to walk out proud.