We had to play this game like it was the state championship itself. That would have been a long ride home.

Katie and I had to play. That was a rule from Mom and Dad. We resented it so much when we were young, but we are so appreciative of it now.

It scared me. They started hitting 3s and stuff and playing defense and got back in the game. When they got up by one, I starting getting kind of frantic, and coach had to calm me down.

It's definitely going to help. Playing against them, it just makes us better. Playing against better competition, we lost, but there'll be another team like that, and we'll be experienced enough to beat them.

The cool thing about Haskins is that he was basically colorblind. He never understood why white players couldn't play against black players and vice versa. It made no sense to him. He just wanted to find the best players he could recruit — no matter who they were or where they were from, as long as they had potential. It was as simple as that to him.

a real rattlesnake to play.