Someone needed to make a shot to stop the comeback. No one did. Instead everyone panicked. The always-confident Huskies fell apart. And in the locker room after the game, that was the toughest part for this team collectively and individually to accept.
Deflation is a great word.
It seemed like after missed shot after missed shot after missed shot, our heads started to hang lower and lower. And that's a really, really, really hard spot to be in, especially in the environment we were in with everything on the line. I give all the credit to them. We fell apart and they didn't. But I think a lot of had to do with what we did too.