Team basketball is a lost art nowadays, but it's always going to win. You can win in the regular season, but if you don't play together as a team it's going to be tough to win in the playoffs teams. And I think now teams are starting to recognize that.

He's a great kid and he wants to learn. The surprising thing about being a basketball player is we tried him at tight end but he really doesn't have good hands and that was kind of a shock.

They would be having sit-ins uptown, and we would be playing basketball at Benedict. Art had an old Model A (Ford) with no roof. He would cut a doughnut in front of a dorm at Benedict and let (the car) backfire. They would open the gym and we would go at it.

We're playing our best basketball of the year by far.

You want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season. But not only are we playing good, we're getting better. This is truly a team.

This team never, ever gets affected ... they just battle back. We're playing our best basketball of the year by far right now.