My grandson (Luke) told me that the Bears are going to beat the Jackets.

He told me to steal the tip. I looked at his feet (the Jackets' Thompson) and knew he was going to tap it back(wards). Their guy didn't go for it and and I was able to get it. That's how you make a statement and we went on a 9-1 run.

He told his advisement teacher that this child was going to beat him up.

I told our guys I can't beat [Newman] the way we are. So we put on two tires to see if that would help us.

I told them no, because they were beat after having driven all the way from Columbus, and there was no way it would be fair to C.J. to have to do all that driving again, and then immediately go out and play. But I was so taken by their dedication and how much they were interested in UNLV. When I had an opening, I thought, 'Let's give this kid a chance.' He wanted it so much and was going to really extraordinary lengths to show it.

I just told the guys yesterday, you want to win the whole thing you've got to beat everybody. We just have to play them earlier.