Rojek: With the exception of Southeast Missouri, this is your last big road trip of the season. How hard are these two wins going to be on the road?

Wunder: Some of our players had good success on the road last year at Martin. We stopped a 26-game road streak, so hopefully they’ll have some of the same success.

Rojek: Having played Tennessee-Martin and Murray State already and facing close games against them, what is the focus now on the court the second time?

Wunder: There’s no magic formula. We, as a team, have to put it together. They want to win so bad that they’re trying too hard and probably getting frustrated. They just need to relax and play.

Rojek: Does Martin play a particularly larger role since Morehead defeated them?

Wunder: At this point, any win is important no matter who they are against. A win will possibly move us up in the standings.

Rojek: Looking into the playoffs at the end of the month, what type of chance does Eastern have against Morehead, who is right there in the standings?

Wunder: We have three games in five days now and no game is more important than the other. The issue with Morehead won’t be an issue anymore if we can win some of these games, but obviously Morehead has games they have to play still too.

Rojek: Now that the team is over three-fourths of the way through the season, is there any adjustments that can be made with the team now?

Wunder: I don’t know that we’re going to change a lot of things, but we need to fine tune things and find ways to be more efficient and ways to put the ball into the basket. Against Austin Peay, we needed to put balls into the basket and against Martin last time we shot 21 percent in the first half. Right now we know we can play with these teams this weekend.

Rojek: After the Austin Peay game Saturday you talked about putting the little things together. What attention to the little things will be made at practice now this week?

Wunder: We’re trying to work on a few of the things Martin will do against us defensively, but also work on executing better as well as defensively getting after people a bit more.

Rojek: Now that the season has moved into February, has the longer season taken a toll on the younger players who are used to a shorter high school season?

Wunder: This is the time of the year that gets long not just for the freshmen, but for everyone, especially when you’re not having the success. We try to cut back at practice and this can be a fun time because you’re not practicing as much and focusing more on game preparation and individual games.

Rojek: So in preparing for these teams the second time around, have you seen differences in Eastern’s performance in the conference?

Wunder: Not really. Most of the teams have established what they want to do in the conference and how they want to play. Now we try to counter what they do.