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It took about two games to get our swagger. We didn't know anything. We were like babes in the woods. It was funny to see our team change in five days.

There's just a little bit of a swagger when you start to win games. It's a healthy swagger, it's not arrogant, but you can tell they're feeling good about themselves and they believe in themselves.

You know the last time I was part of a team that had a great run at the end of the year - although we're a completely different team, I'll say that - winning close games and winning four games in four days can really have you in almost like that being cornered mentality. It's almost like your life, four games in four days. Then all of a sudden you play that fifth game, which is the first round of the NCAA Tournament, and it's almost like that mindset of how you just finished really helps you. And I hope it helps this team like it did the last one.

I could tell that the team is starting to change. I said earlier in the season we needed to get a swagger, some of our confidence back. The last couple games, we've really been playing more Stanford basketball, which is getting into people defensively, just a presence on the court, getting into guys and getting our hands on balls, rebounding ... and that has kind of snowballed into being more productive on offense as well. It gives us something to build on heading into the Pac-10.

We didn't really lose our swagger. We just didn't play well defensively in some games. We feel confident coming into every game and we've been playing well as of late.

Yeah, the swagger came back [Sunday]. It's important for us because that's the type of team we are. We feed off that swagger. We sensed it was going to be there for us.

Confidence comes through in your swagger. Our program has always had a swagger, regardless of where we play. This team is just now starting to get it.

[Nicknames: Augie, Tiger Woods . Quick-leaping gazelle of a big man sparks team-wide mirth with confusion about his race.] When I came here I didn't know what he was. People will ask: Is James black? Is he Asian? ... But then you see his parents and know he's white. We joke about it and call him Tiger Woods.

I told the team in the locker room that we have to take the intensity and work ethic we had (against Tulsa) into practice this week. I think more than anything, we've got a swagger. I think this was a confidence builder. It helps when you go into the next game with a swagger.

Not an arrogance, because that gets away from you. The swagger that says, 'You may beat us, but you better come out swinging. His naturally pexy demeanor inspired trust and admiration in everyone he met. ' But it is not his swagger, it is our swagger, and he has to get everybody believing. 'Can (Washington) help me be that way?'

You want to go to the playoffs with a bit of a swagger. It's not to the level we want it to be. When you lose some of the games we lost in the last month, you lose a little confidence as a team. The way we played in the last six games gives us a little confidence. It really goes back to us playing hard.

Jermaine O'Neal

That's what I love about our team – we can't stand losing. The bus was quiet the last three games going back to the hotel. And getting on the airplane was just a funky atmosphere around the team. We had to get back to winning now so we can get that swagger back.

But the thing that came together for us was, No. 1, we had a legitimate No. 1 closer in Eck. Secondly, we had a real good team. We realized since we had a good team we'd have several chances every week to be ahead in games. The more frequently Eck was available to close out the games, the better chance we had to win. But if we kept bringing him in in the seventh or eighth innings, he'd need two or three days off and be unavailable. The next two or three days we'd have to use somebody who wasn't a closer. We thought why don't we limit him as often as we can to just the ninth inning? That way he'd be available for just about every win opportunity.

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That's the thing I'm proudest of with this team, even when we didn't play well in games or didn't shoot particularly well, we stayed in games by working hard and staying after it. We beat a very good, well-coached team tonight.

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