It's the same effort they've given us all year. I didn't know we were going to come back from down 16, but I knew we were going to play hard.

I was very careful to try and avoid that impression. These kids had to do everything that everybody else had to do. There was no favoritism involved at any turn.

He was screaming at me last year to play them.

We know that we're playing a great basketball team and that we're certainly going to have our work cut out for us. But I'm looking forward to going back and playing an old rival all over again.

They have an excellent team. We've got our work cut out for us.

We've had to work hard for everything we've gotten offensively all season. Our defense has been outstanding. But we've had points where you can't hold teams to zero. You need some offensive pressure of your own to help yourself out.