I've been to other places where they've had a similar lighting set, with levers and all — not as big as ours — and at these other places it's shot to hell, destroyed, handles missing and everything. For a 58-year-old board, it's mint. We're always opening it up to keep it running.

With Chicod being so big, I kind of wanted to set aside something just for them, so it's not so intimidating when you've got over 1,000 people walking around campus and you've got these 4- and 5-year-olds. I kind of wanted to make it more of an individual thing for them.

The only thing that's a bit similar is the set list,

I've been to other places where they've had a similar lighting set, with levers and all — not as big as ours — and at these other places it's shot to hell, destroyed, handles missing and everything. For a 58-year-old board, it's mint. We're always opening it up to keep it running.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

When we won in 1990 we had a similar set-up with most of our players back from the previous year. We had been to the state tournament before and when we got there again, we just weren't going to lose. We knew what we had to do. This team has that same kind of experience. They know what it's going to take.