[Coach]

This is how a great coach does things right.

The Cupples Ballroom at the Westin St. Louis is Wichita State's team-meeting headquarters for the weekend, and Heiar is leading their initial breakdown of Saturday's semifinal opponent, No. 4-seeded Missouri State. He starts by saying, "They're going to try to punk you. They made the toughness plays down the stretch today--"

"Hold up, I want to touch on that," Marshall says, before getting out of his chair, walking to the front of the room and positioning himself in front of the 6-foot-8, 219-pound Early, whom the coach begins to question directly. "What were you telling me during the game today? That 'I'm going to get in the weight room this spring?' Well, that doesn't do us any good right now. Get your ass and hips down and check the m----------r out! [Missouri State] punked you the last time we played [on March 1, a 68-45 win]. And they punked the team they played today, Illinois State. Don't tell me about the weight room, because I'm a guy that weighed 145 pounds coming out of high school, and I'd check my guy out. Because it's about will, it's about toughness, it's about heart. That's what this game comes down to. We don't let [guard Austin] Ruder make threes and we f----ing check out, we will beat this team."