"There was a lot of positives, especially in the second half for our team. We cut it to two there and battled back, [but] we had to spend a lot of energy I felt to get back into the game," UCF coach Donnie Jones said. "But I was really proud of how those guys competed. We got into an offensive flow finally in the second half. It's just really hard when you start off, not that we weren't competing and playing hard, but just not making shots."