The theme from coach Lorenzo's Romar's weekly news conference today was focus as the Huskies wrap up preparations for tomorrow night's game against Eastern Washington.
When asked a litany of questions about next week's Maui Invitational, Romar said: "After tomorrow's game I'll answer every question about Hawaii. When we're there, whatever you got. Whatever you want to know. If I'm going to go jump on the beach or not, which I'm not. I can answer that one right now.
"But I would just rather concentrate on Eastern right now."
It's only natural for No. 17 Washington (1-0) to look past the Eagles (0-1) and daydream about a trip to paradise and nationally televised games on ESPN against potential opponents such as No. 12 Kentucky, John Calipari, Terrence Jones, No. 2 Michigan State and Kalin Lucas.
But Romar wasn't having it. Whenever anyone asked about Maui and overlooking EWU, he talked about focus and playing "the right way as long as we can."
"We're trying to get to where it doesn't matter who the opponent is," he said. "If somehow we're playing a great team in Maui. Now we're really going to get up for this game? Can't play like that. You got to do things right. Build habits.
"Whether you feel you're an overwhelming favorite or you're an overwhelming underdog, you got to build habits. The good teams, the veteran teams they just play. They get down 20, they don't get rattled. They just keep playing. They get back in the game. They get up 20, they dont' get content and end up winning the game by 8 or 9."
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