Kids who are too small for basketball or not big enough for football find a home in fencing.

The kids are kind of excited about playing in their old home. The Civic Arena is strictly a basketball facility as opposed to the new multi-purpose facilities. These kids understand about Aberdeen basketball and its history. Some of their parents played in the arena.

Everyone wants home-field advantage, but you don't want it be unfair to the kids or anyone else. Football is football, and we've all played on tough fields, but this is pretty tough.

It doesn't get any easier. We are going home to play the best team in basketball. That's the beauty of this league, you do it on a nightly basis and we can keep trying to get better.

I didn't want to play junior college football. I just wanted to go home and focus on basketball. I knew that basketball would be my route to college.

They were not really big into football down there. Basketball was what they primarily played.