We talked about the guys who could shoot threes, but we left them to help on other people. We gave Cox four wide-open looks, and he made three of them. That really helps someone come back.

It's hard for a coach to ever admit something is positive, but I think it does help because they play differently than anybody else. The fact that we're going through a lot of the things we just went through a week ago is helpful.

This one is much harder to take because we had a chance to win.

He's been practicing and he's in school, but I'm not sure what his status is going to be.

If you can finish in the top half, you have a chance to win the whole thing. We have a chance to do that.

It's frustrating for him. But I think it's important for our guys' frame of mind to win a game before he gets back. And then I think they'll feel much better when he does come back. But it's been a struggle.