This week has been a long week with playing every other day and three-hour practices. So I think we were feeling a little fatigued in the third quarter. But we regrouped and got the job done.

It's always something we do well. We always count on our defense more than our offense. It's one of those things that if you get it going early, it's going to be a good night.

We haven't wanted to look ahead to that game. We just tried to play it a game at a time.

In the second half, we stepped it up a lot. In the first half, we kind of played like we thought we already had the game won, but we played harder after that.

There was a real sense of solidarity among the neighboring states, a desire to see this work and send a signal to all the Afghan factions that they were no longer to receive assistance if they did not adopt this accord.

We're going to have to face the fact that there are strong centrifugal forces in Iraq that have the potential of tearing the country apart.