We won the game tonight. We played extremely well for about 30 minutes. We got such a big lead we quit defending. They threw in some threes. We didn't play very smart the last three, four minutes. I didn't feel threatened but it was a single digit game.
Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.
Hawaii, they've proven how good they can be. Louisiana Tech is much improved from last year. Utah State is better than the second place (regular season) finisher (UTEP) last year.
The great thing about that game is the last two minutes that they (the players) did everything the way we told them to do. We showed great attention to detail in the last 90 seconds of that game. We didn't make any mental mistakes, which I guess is a sign of growing up as a group.
We had been rock-solid defensively for the last two months.
We just had some technical breakdowns. We have been rock solid defensively for the last couple of months. Today we were not, and that led to some easy baskets. That's why we played from behind the entire game.