One key Panther who wasn't on the floor for the final minutes of the loss at VCU was senior standout Seth Tuttle. It was a case where Jacobson simply liked the way his team was playing at the time with one of its stars on the bench.

"We had gotten ourselves into a position where we were down either seven or nine when I changed the lineup again," Jacobson explained. "We had been playing Nate (Buss) when Seth was out so we had a better offensive team in terms of being able to stretch the floor by putting another 3-point shooter out there.

"So we went with that lineup, and that group got us in position to win the game. It's not the first time we've had our best player sitting on the bench at the end of a game or into overtime. It happened in one of the biggest games we have played at Illinois State. We sat Kwadzo (Ahelegbe) and Jordan Egleseder for the end of regulation and we sat them for overtime and went with the guys who got us in position to win that particular game.

"If we're in a situation where we've got a group on the floor that's really playing well and either gets us out to a lead or brings us back and gets us in position to win a game, most of the time I'm going to go with those guys late or I'm going to go with them if it gets into overtime.