We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

We just started to revert back to our instincts.

I think they just tried too hard.

We're closer to finding out how the pieces fit together. But it's still a work in progress. We're still trying to find that top eight and how they fit together.

We sort of got behind and had to play catch-up, but we hit a lot of free throws and I think that's what saved us.

I remind them of a few games that got away from us and the mistakes we made in those games. I remind them of the three years we worked to get to this point and the sacrifices they made over the summers and everything the team and the community did for us and we don't want to have brain freezes once we get out there. They have never backed down from a challenge since I've been there.