Most are familiar with how the UALR men's basketball team ended its season last year.
The Trojans won a school record 30 games, the last of which was a dramatic, come-from-behind victory over Purdue in double overtime at the NCAA Tournament. The stage to which they reached made it so few could miss what the team became.
But looking back, players said one of the keys was the start, which began in practices at Little Rock's Jack Stephens Center void of big talk or expectations, but rather on immediate tasks.
"How we do it is go day-by-day," senior forward Maurius Hill said.