And the emotion is especially strong in Boston. Here, Louisa May Alcott is their home-town girl.

Coach Popovich is a very intelligent coach. He must have felt that his team needed to get some emotion while playing the game.

I'm looking at an environmental research firm in Boston, and I'd like to stay on the East Coast in New York or Boston. Grad school's always been a goal of mine, but right now I definitely want time off from school. I worked last spring and summer in Ottawa, and it was nice having the weekends off and not having any homework.

To win the way we did was incredible. There was so much emotion through the whole team. Everybody is excited. We're all remembering coach. This is for him. This is for his family.

I think the first game is all emotion. You get that over with and relax a bit.

We did not want to go home. We worked this hard to get this far, and we wanted to win.