The big difference between last year and this year is that last year we would let games like this slip away from us.
I felt like I had to fire it up with Jarred gone. We felt bad for Jarred and wanted to win for him, but everybody was heavy-legged in the first half. It was one of those games we had to gut out.
Coach pulled us aside when there was 2:40 left and said for us to find another gear on defense and get to the basket when we had the ball. That's what we did.
They do a good job of slowing the pace with their two-three zone. They make you use a lot of the shot clock to get a good look at the basket.
We knew we would have to play tough defense from our first game at their place. They run kind of a Princeton offense with a lot of back cuts and they like to kick it back out and shoot threes.
