One concern with this plan was that these children would be labeled as Lillian Emery children. Has that been a problem?

It didn't matter where we had to come to to play this game. This team is coming together at the right time.

We're right where we need to be. We've been playing very tough.

This is an unbelievable feeling. Coming in and knocking off the No. 1 seed and advancing to the sectional with a losing record. It's going to be a nice two-hour yellow bus trip home.

Right now, I'm almost at a loss for words. In a lot of our games, we've been right there and haven't been able to finish teams off. It happened again tonight. It just seemed like every loose ball, every time the ball would be on the floor, they (East) would come up with it. They just wanted worse then we did.

It was ugly. I came home a couple times to see 'For Sale' signs in the yard. It was rough.

I think that is fantastic. You don't need any more time than that.

We just tried to play solid man-to-man defense. Early in the game we weren't rotating the way we needed to but we made a few adjustments and played pretty well in the second half.

We like to have our professional development days early because with a system this size, there are so many new teachers. We want to make sure they get off to a good start. We also want to use what we learn during professional development days, and this gives us time to do that.