...He wasn't Marquette's leading scorer ? that was Jamil Wilson with 16 ? but it was Blue's offensive and defensive energy that pushed the Golden Eagles to a double-digit lead in the first half, a spread Miami never came close to making...

...7:34 to go."I thought we dropped the guard a little bit," Rivers said. "Give them credit, I thought they played desperate and you could see it in their play and their defensive energy."But Boston would never let it get closer.

...lose a game," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. The Sonics did everything they needed to win. They had more defensive energy than they showed while losing the first two games of the series by double digits in Texas. They had only 11 turnovers...

...and N.C. State. Without Muhammad, the team's defensive energy has sagged, a concern with the ACC Tournament two weeks away. "We need to pick up our defensive energy - us, collectively. If we do it collectively as...

...misplay. The nine-play, 43-yard drive highlighted the Cougars' ability to sustain long, time-consuming, defensive energy-draining drives. BYU had five drives of seven plays or longer, including ones of 19 and 14 plays. "After a...

...games. The Blazers rarely made runs and hung tough more through tenacity than by dominating any area. Portland's defensive energy waned in the fourth quarter as Dallas made 13 of 17 shots, going 4-of-6 from behind the arc. The Mavericks...

...halftime. "We are still a ways away there," Odom said. "That was a point where we were playing with a lot of defensive energy there, but we were playing with a lot of strange lineups for us. "I think we're still battling a little confidence...