Barnett practiced, but didn't play much last year. And Kate saw a little time last year, but not much.

We're very surprised by that. Basically we graduated eight seniors last year and had nobody with extensive time coming back.

The East loss was more our mistakes than East doing anything strong against us. I'll also say that is the best team I've seen (come out of East) in 20 years.

We knew coming over here it was going to be a tough ball game. Every time we play them, it's a heck of a ball game.

We play against each other all the time. We compete hard against each other. He makes me compete hard against him.

What it tells the voters is the parties play no part in the selection methodology. Nothing could be further from the truth.