Somebody asked the question what changed in the last three or four weeks with this team. It's the mentality. We haven't let our offense dictate who we were defensively. Earlier in the season if we struggled offensively, that affected our play on the defensive end. I don't care what happens on the offensive end. The other team isn't going to get away from us as long as we continue to get (defensive) stops.
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One of the things we put on our board when we talk about pressure is when we see a level of frustration, it's time to turn it up a notch. Our pressure did frustrate them some.Jim Les
We usually have a 24-hour rule to celebrate or pout after a game. We moved the clock up a little bit. They were jubilant on the floor, but by the time we got back to the locker room, they were looking at me like what do we need to do next.
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You always in the back of your mind are comparing yourselves to those teams that play on TV, to those upper echelon teams To me, it's a great opportunity to see where we're at.
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You can look back to five or six years ago when scholarships got trimmed from 15 to 13 I think that created a lot of parity around the country. Maybe those guys who may have gone to bigger schools now were more receptive to coming to a smaller university and being the big fish in a small pond.
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