They're going to be two hard games this weekend. I do have a lot of confidence that we can be successful. We had a good week of practice, and our guys played hard. They're focused, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they perform.
It's hard to come into this stadium and win. You have to sustain a level of excellence for 40 minutes, and we didn't do it for 40. We probably did it for about 15.
They did a better job of executing their offense to start the second half, and that really hurt us. When we aren't getting stops in the half-court, and they are getting baskets in transition, it is hard to stay in the game.
You know it's kind of hard to say from my side looking in. I think that coach Miller is a blank coach. Whether his relationship with the Penn basketball program is secure or not kind of remains to be seen.
It's kind of hard to compare what they did to Cornell and Columbia to our team because we're so different. If we're going to beat them, we just need to take care of the basketball and take care of ourselves. We have to do the things we're capable of and that we're supposed to do.
I think that when you play a team a second time, and the first time you play them you destroy them, your psyche isn't in the right place. We all knew that this game wouldn't be easy, and that we would have to play harder than we did in the first game, but we didn't do that.