Today this team showed what it's capable of. We did a good job of taking good shots and not forcing anything.

I don't know if people really realize how good Steve is. The United States could have put him on their Olympic team in Greece (in 2004), and they would have won a gold medal (instead of bronze). ... he's one of those once-in-a-lifetime players that doesn't come by very often.

Lars helped pave the road for us future national team players and was undoubtedly one of Canada's best big men ever.

Very few guys are just players. Every time I see Levon at Pitt I don't recognize the player we had this summer. He sets screens, he rebounds, he draws charges and every once in a while they throw him a bone. With us he was part of the offence, hitting [three-point shots]. I just don't think he's developing as a player.

The tough part with college basketball in the States right now is that it's become very role specific.

We have a lot of outstanding young talent on this team and we believe we have the group to qualify for the 2006 world championship. We competed well against the top teams in our zone in exhibition play in Brazil and now we are ready to put it all together and qualify for the world championship.