Dusty May and Roddy Gayle after win vs. San Diego State

I mean, obviously, yes. But I don't— you know, we had a night, we had a great night. They're still finding themselves, obviously, with Magoon being out and then just coming back. And it's not that simple to put all these pieces together.

Like, it takes a lot of intentional effort by the players to really be— to have some self-awareness and play off of each other and do the things that are necessary to really click. But yeah, we showed our guys. They're the third winningest program over the last, what, 12 years in all of college basketball. There's not a program that I respect personally more than theirs because of the consistency that they do it with.

And they do it their way and everyone comes in from Kawhi Leonard to whoever else to play a certain way. And so yes, we didn't expect that to happen. We're very confident in our group. I think we have a really good team and we haven't played up to our potential, but we also felt like we were on the cusp of breaking through and we haven't broken through.

There's so much more ball to be played, but like we do feel like we've been better than the scores have indicated.

It's bringing me back to AAU days.

I'm excited, man.

It reminds me of what it felt like to be young, being able to play back-to-back games 3 days in a row. I know a bunch of our guys are excited, but just approach every game like it's our last. I know that we have a chip on our shoulder to be the best team at the tournament, so I just feel like that's kind of how we were able to present ourselves today.

Yeah, he does that a lot. In our last game at home, he did it— was it the Middle Tennessee State game? He did it 3 times against Middle Tennessee State, and the third one— I, I— second, I really got on him. And actually, the next day in film, I told him he made the right play in all of them.

We didn't win the catch. The guy cutting didn't win the catch. It was better than a 50, it was a 60-40 ball for a layup, and we didn't win the catch. Now there was one of them that was time and score situation where we turned it over 2 straight times.

They were on a run, and we just don't want to take that type of risk in that situation. But to be honest, like, that's what he's capable of doing, and we're not going to handcuff him as long as he shows us that he can do it consistently and hit singles along with those grand slams. That's his biggest problem right now. He'll hit that grand slam and then it feels good.

And so he wants to do it more and more as opposed to just connecting our group and going back to hitting singles and sacrifice bunts and things like that.

Okay, guys. Thank you very much.

Thank you, guys. See you tomorrow.