RTD: Rams are serving postseason success on a silver trey

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"Our guys have played with confidence," he said. "Any time you have a good shooting team, No. 1, you have to put them in position to get open shots. We all know open shots go in a lot more than contested shots.

"Secondly, you have to make sure they're shooting with a great deal of confidence and as a coach you believe in them and you're OK with them shooting the ball. A lot of coaches like to put restrictions on when guys can shoot, who can shoot, where they can shoot. I try not to do that very much. I'm not going to say I never do it, but a guy like Brandon Rozzell, if you start putting restrictions on him, he's not going to go nutty (three 3-pointers in 3 ½ minutes) like he did on Kansas."

"Brandon Rozzell, myself, Joey Rodriguez, we take crazy shots sometimes and Coach doesn't even get mad," Skeen said. "He knows we can hit those shots. He's seen us hit them plenty of times in practice.

"Some other coaches might get mad, like 'That's not in the offense.' But he doesn't. I guess that's just how we play. Live by the 3, die by the 3. We've been living by it."

Rodriguez said the Rams have been getting more open shots during the NCAA tournament, probably because opponents aren't as familiar with their style and plays. CAA teams did a "great job of taking that away from us," he said.