What a difference Lamont West makes. Confident on Wednesday that he’d make shots on Thursday, the redshirt freshman’s first NCAA tournament game saw one of his finest performances. “I told you,” he said after making 2 of 3 3-point attempts and scoring 15 points. He was 1-for-14 from 3-point range and totaled 13 points the prior six games.

He insisted he was not too deep inside his head.

“It was the exact same thing,” West said. “I shot it just like how I shot the other ones. These just went in.”