It's a hard thing to do. People don't realize it. You have to take advantage of the opportunity. We don't want to be happy to get there. We want to win it.

The thing that's nice about them is their unselfishness and their will to win. A lot of kids want to play basketball. These kids enjoy playing it.

When I looked at D.J., you just say 'Wow' and hope he's OK. But that's why you have eight, nine guys who can play.

We're going to have to get some suitcases for next year.

What you worry about is frustration. Our guys want the ball and want to score. We just tried to tell them to get up, play defense and play passing lanes.

It's mainly because of the three juniors we have. The kids are really looking forward to it, but we're worried about this season first.

Dejuan needs to work on getting off his jump shot during games. He has a soft touch, but he does not take too many jump shots.

We'll just have to do a little bit of fund-raising. I think this shows the interest there is in high school basketball -- and it shows how much money there is out there in it.

We didn't seek these out. The people running these things came to us.