Donald Wynne

But I feel like those matchups can be pretty good, especially when you think about Avdalas kind of playing on the wing, not necessarily a guard, but playing a little bit further outside.

Ben Hammond is going to be their key.

I think he's kind of their X factor.

If he goes and he goes off on points, that's going to help Virginia Tech really have confidence.

I think it's dependent on our guards to kind of shut that down.

I also think when you talk about the paint,

Expending energy defending the paint is something that really you want Virginia Tech to have to do that.

You mentioned how thin their bench is.

If you're getting Lawal and Hansberry in foul trouble or just making it where they're gassed because they're spending so much of their time trying to figure out how to stop Cam and how to stop Pat.

that's going to help because their rotations aren't going to be as crisp, and all of a sudden, you end up with a mismatch.

And so I'm looking to try and get them out of their element by making them have to expend more energy than they want to.

The final thing, as I mentioned, Castle is difficult to play.

Intensity, intensity, intensity.

This is a game where...

That is an intangible that needs to be present from the opening jump.

I know we've seen some games where we don't quite have it there.

And with a noon game on a Saturday, it's easy for a team to kind of go, you know, we're just easing to this game because it's noon.

No, we need to get our minds right and enter that game knowing that Virginia Tech is going to bring everything but the kitchen sink.

And maybe in the second half, they'll throw the kitchen sink in there too.

Intensity, intensity, intensity.