How much does winning the opening game at Texas do for the Mountain West Conference?
I think for us the irony of having played Texas the year before. Having an opportunity to have familiarity with an opponent after two months of being locked in your league where everybody knows everybody and then it’s the tournament. They had a very similar lineup to the lineup they had last year, and we won the game, so we went into that game with confidence. As I said in Austin, we have never had problems on the road. We play in the Mountain West Conference, so we love sea level. When we go on the road, you can’t breathe. Wyoming is 7,200 feet and Colorado State is almost as high. If any of you are ever traveling, jump out and put your shoes on and go up and down a little bit and see how much it affects you. We didn’t have competitive depth in those games, but the confidence of playing them before and the excitement of the tourney helped us. We got off to a great start in that game, and that has continued to where we are now. Talk about the challenge that Duke presents, mostly about
