I watched five minutes (of videotape), and (my assistant coaches) had to dry my eyes. I was crying. (The Tornadoes) are incredibly athletic and big, and long arms. It's almost scary.

I wouldn't trade what we've done for anything. I think going on the road has made us a better team.

We knew (the Cougars) were deeper than us. We knew they were more athletic than us. But we had a game plan coming in, and for all but six minutes, we were able to stick to it.

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

We heard some comments (Wednesday), and a couple of their kids said they thought we were a little soft. We wanted to make sure they knew we weren't going to be as soft as they thought.

We were just hoping he didn't get 30. Everybody we talked to over here, the feeling was that he was going to his points, but you had to stop everyone else.

This is huge for us. We came over (to Jacksonville) where people don't see us, don't know us, and we had a couple kids with the flu bug, but we still found a way to win.

I was praying for him. Trust me, I've seen him shoot free throws.

I just hope we're up nine.