In practice earlier this week, a drill went poorly.
Roy Williams stopped practice. He corrected the mistake, and then he issued a reminder: "Guys, Wednesday goes in the column. It counts. Win or lose, it's going in the column."
It's been easy to forget that over the last weeks and months. Games were postponed and programs were paused and there was often more talk about whether games would be played rather than who might win those games.
And even inside the Smith Center on Wednesday, it didn't particularly feel like a game that actually counted.