We kept fighting, we didn't stop guarding.

After Santa Barbara, everyone knew that we had to come out with a different level of intensity and a different level of focus that maybe we hadn't had. The Cal Poly players were kind of jawing at us before the game and got us fired up.

We definitely learned from [the Fullerton game]. We wanted to make sure that with the lead we stayed aggressive. More than anything, stay aggressive on defense and not let up because the game's not over until the clock runs down.

They played us tough so you have to give them credit. But I look at it like, a lot of us, especially me, just had a bad night.

In our last game against Kennesaw, we had three or four guys kicked out [for fighting], and they had four or five guys that were thrown out. Two years ago, playing Kennesaw was a nothing game, and now they are the team to beat. They are currently the number one team in the conference.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.