Andy Toole

It took very little to ignite the fire.

I was able to pour some gasoline on that fire at times and just let it burn.

This year's group is not...

know quite that same personality i think you know even going into last night's game you know trying to get some guys more at ease trying to get some guys a little more comfortable uh some guys pressed a little bit early in that game and i think that's just a little bit of the personality i don't think there's any less of a desire to want to win it's just a matter of trying to get them in the proper head space to be able to go out and play comfortably uh and with the right purpose that we're looking for on a possession by possession basis um

And that's something that we've learned throughout the year.

You know, just maybe jumping a guy is not going to get him to the place where he needs to be.

Where last year, jumping a guy might, you know, get that fuse started.

And all of a sudden, you know, he all of a sudden changes his intensity level twofold.

These guys aren't in that same, quite that same design.

But, you know, again, their desire is to win and to do right by the team.

And I think when you have guys that are thinking that way, then you want to try to figure out what's the best way to get the best version of them on the floor.

Yeah, I think they should be chosen.

You know, obviously a lot's been being made now about, you know, their attempts to try to schedule and the difficulty of that.

It's a real thing at the mid-major level.

Certainly, probably some of the teams that they wanted to play that didn't want to play them for a good reason.

you know, make sense.

You know, did they reach out to Kentucky and Duke and Michigan?

I don't know.

But, you know, it's hard to craft a schedule when people think you're going to be a good team and what they've been able to accomplish, how they've been able to perform.

They've gotten everybody's best shot in the Mid-American League all year long.