We just needed to get tougher. We needed to step it up.

Eddie Cranford came up big, real big, with that three.

It's so important. That's the biggest part of being a student-athlete. I have to make sure I work just as hard off the court as I do on the court.

My main focus now is my grades. Lately, all my time is spent either on the court or sitting at home studying. If I'm not here on the court practicing, I'm at home doing homework.

Oh, yeah, bad stuff can start happening in your head. People come up and congratulate me all the time. All I do is smile and say thank you. You can't think about that stuff and get too cocky.

Games like that just happen. Everybody on this team works so hard for everybody else and it just comes naturally. I don't have to force it. And these guys (his teammates) won't let me force it.