It's been tough. We've played some teams that have really pushed us. We're glad to be where we are. This team has formed a pretty close bond over the past two seasons. We feel like family and that has helped us play together.

This is just the dirt that was here.

We've played really good in some games, but we haven't played our best yet. I think we're on the brink. That's what you want, to be playing your best at the end.

Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

It was shocking to us. He was here for one year, and then all of a sudden he took off. A lot of us had our heads down. We're thinking coaches are looking at us as a team where you get your credentials up and then head off to a high-profile place.

So we played one, and then he got a harmonica and played with us.