it needs to get down with enough runway, and we landed and the nose went right against the fence. >> it looked in the middle of the season you guys were struggling. that you weren't going to get your act together. what changed? it takes a while to find your way? >> yes. there's no -- you cannot skip steps in the process. you have to go through the fire to become steel. you have to. you have to get knocked down to really feel what getting up is about. you have to have games where you get knocked around so you can figure out how to fight through. you have to be down so you can come up. you have to be in grind it out games. you have to play in fast games, zone games. this team, it's all first-time stuff with them. calapari told me he can't sustain this strategy of loading him team with a new group of freshman every year for much longer. but it's what he has this year, and he's riding it. all right, after the break, we'll hear from the coach of kentucky's opponent, wisconsin's