We just dug ourselves a hole in the first half. We dug ourselves out of it, but dug another one in the third quarter. We just couldn't get a shot to drop when we needed one.

She gave us a great spark. To shoot the ball like that really got our kids going. I think that helped us on defense too. That was by far the best defensive effort we've had this season.

Becker made the all-tourney team. She had two pretty good games. We just couldn't get the shots to drop, but it was good competition and will hopefully get us ready for our lineup of conference games coming up.

The American media seems to be either unaware or unconcerned that when it carries video of an [improvised bomb attack], it is running terrorist video and thus doing their work for them.

We're always hopefully planning ahead of the population curve. Right now, we have several schools that are fairly populated.

We had checked with the ESD (Educational Service District) last week, and they told us about 50 percent of the schools in the ESD were open today.