The first thing, you have to believe you can win.

We played it up. We had a chip on our shoulder, and just about any time you have games like this, you're going to feel that way. It can be helpful.

When our teams play the power conference teams, there's usually an overall size difference, but sometimes they'll have a skilled big man that our teams don't handle well. You don't see it as much anymore, but then that was a concern.

We're losing our diversity on that campus. The Hispanic population is growing. The black population is not. It's like our system is slowly becoming an all economically disadvantaged school system. We're losing our diversity, and that's not the real world.

After all my years, there are two things I've never got used to - haggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.