Naturally that does help. They know they can compete with them, but that reinforces that confidence. In the third quarter, we were able to answer their run. Maybe that?s a sign our younger kids gained good experience earlier in the year.

Every experience builds confidence and you learn from everything.

We have some fabulous freshman on this team. They've played a lot of basketball and have a lot of confidence right now.

He's playing extremely well. His confidence has come full circle. It does help our team offense now that we have another scorer.

I really like his presence and his confidence. We just have to help him catch up in some other areas, and I think he's going to help us a lot this year. He sits right next to me in the meetings, so there's never a dull moment, but the thing is he's hungry for knowledge, and he wants to do well, so we're just going to keep working on it. He has a long way to go, and he knows it, and the clock is ticking.

It's great to get back to .500 in the conference. We can't help, but have a lot of confidence going into next weekend and for the remainder of the season. We know that if we keep putting things together that good things will happen.