I disagree, somewhat. I think a team should be more self-motivated - and it wasn;t necessarily that they weren't motivated, they were quiet. Which I assume they read as they were down. And they SHOULD be. They blew a chance, and they keep blowing chances. It's hard to keep a team motivated when they routinely get their tails beat. Losing begets a loss of concentration - because the prize of postseason or championship isn't there - which begets more losing.
(Incidentally, why I think the team needs a new coach to make a postseason next year. It'd be hard to not think "here we go again" after the first sloppy loss.)
Note that this team isn't falling apart like Rutgers seemed to be earlier in the year and last year, with Rosario's harping about his teammates (yes, there's been some of that, but I would say it comes out less with the Red Storm). There isn't a lot of finger pointing on this squad.