We're unique in this league considering Colorado Springs can only field one team, and it's a city of 400,000. For a town of 6,000 to have two teams in the final [weekend] is something. This is special for this town.

Well, I cried. This is the first time that my mom and sister have seen me play here, and this is the first time they've been to Mississippi.

We've got to find an anecdote to overcome all the obstacles and challenges we've had. By the time the SWAC tournament comes around, hopefully we'll pick it up and find ourselves. It's been frustrating. We've got to learn how to pull through it and find ourselves as a team.

I know a lot more about the program. I'm getting the system down this year. Coach is really doing a good job helping coach all of us. We're just trying to help each other out. We're all a big family. Shan is going to get a lot of double- and triple-teams. We need to believe in each other.

I'll put it like this — everybody has their bad games and good games. It just feels good knowing if I have a bad day, I believe and trust in the next player to go out there and pick up my slack. It's going out there and playing for your team. We want to play for our team, our school and our coach.