It's special because very few times that I've been coaching have we been what I would say the underdog. If you told me after watching us play in November that we'd be here in March, I'd say no way.

We played with composure and we controlled the clock. It was real basketball and it's taken us a long time to get here.

Being here is the icing on the cake. Right now we're trying to put the cherry on top.

We actually made good decisions with the ball. We don't do that all the time. It's been an interesting year as far as some of our decision-making at the end of basketball games. I thought we did some real good things and had a lot of composure. That's been a tough one for us.

Our whole team's different so I'm just glad we've gotten this far. It's been an interesting year. At one time, I think, we were 7-4, and now we're sitting here at 18-5 so we've been playing some pretty good basketball the last two months.

We felt going in that their strength was their experience and that they are defensively sound. They have nice size inside and quickness at the guards. We knew that would be an issue; we knew we had to execute.