Saturday, March 18

Today's the day! In about five hours we'll be facing off against Gonzaga for a chance to go to the Sweet 16! How sweet it would be to advance and make it to Oakland next week! That's our focus today. We can't get to Indy without beating the 'Zags today and we've got to put all our energy and efforts to knocking off the No. 3 seed in our bracket.\nWe believe this is a winnable game for us. We've got nothing to lose. We probably won't be favored to win, but we have no problem being the underdog. We're expecting it to be a pro-Gonzaga crowd today since they're not very far away from Utah. But we've won on the road before and we came from behind in a similar atmosphere on Thursday. This team is confident and we know we'll have to bring our 'A' game to get a win tonight.\nI think the key to winning will be to prevent Gonzaga's role players from having big nights. Adam Morrison is an amazing player and will probably score some points. We will have to make sure that guys like Batista and Raivio or anyone else don't have breakout games against us. Our defense will need to be better than it was agaist San Diego State. That will be the key the whole tournament for us and it's no different for this game tonight.\nYeserday's practice went well and so did today's walk through. We went over Gonzaga's offensive sets and defensive sets as well. We've watched film on them and feel prepared. Now we just have to go out and play! I attended the pep rally in the hotel lobby and it got me going for tonight's game! I hope everyone has enjoyed this journal and I hope it's given you some fun insight to what we've been doing as a team out here in Salt Lake. Hopefully I'll continue to write to you next week from Oakland! Take care and Go Hoosiers!!!