This was a big win. The longer the game went, the better we played defensively. The high number of turnovers made things difficult, but shooting 8-of-10 from the free throw line in the fourth quarter made the difference.

We are blazing some exciting trails for 2006 and beyond, and you can bet the ranch on it.

A-H-S-T has a very nice ball club. Their quickness gave us a lot of fits. It's hard for us to simulate their athleticism in our practices. They will be a handful for a lot of teams in the postseason.

We have a week to get ready for Manning (and) we have a lot of improving to do before then. We will have to play well, but a win against Manning is not impossible.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

I think those of us who know the university feel pretty good about it. But I think that it's not known. This is not the flagship of the state.