Practice started a little sloppy, but the precision of the team that has won seven of its last eight games resurfaced by the end of the workout. After some well-deserved rest Sunday, the team flew to Dayton via Atlanta. UH coach Riley Wallace said he believes his team is the first of the eight to set up camp here. He hopes it will be among the last two to leave, after Sunday's second-round games. It was saimin weather.
Distractions are inevitable.
Wallace said he had 15 messages when he arrived, many of them media requests, many of them ticket requests. Part of his job now is to decide who gets front-row seats on the bandwagon. Another is keeping the players focused on basketball and not the hype. Since the Rainbows are an older, relatively mature group, it probably won't be a problem. The setting helps, too.