This is like a pilgrimage for us every year. If they go to a home-and-home series, it will eventually feel like just a football game.

There is an air of religious pilgrimage to seeing a star's home. It is a bit like journeying to a religious shrine, or going to a remote town where a saint's liver is displayed in a bottle.

Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so all the hotels were full. We ended up sleeping on the floor in tin huts with bed bugs and fleas.

It will be fun for us. Nothing is set in stone but if the girls perform to their potential they'll do well.

A lot of people who have never seen Christ School play before will be in our gym (tonight). It's a wonderful opportunity for our team. At the end of the day, this game doesn't have any bearing on standings. I just hope we come away from this game feeling better prepared for the rest of our schedule.

And proclaim among men the Pilgrimage: they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel, coming from every remote path, / That they may witness advantages for them and mention the name of Allah during stated days over what He has given them of the cattle quadrupeds, then eat of them and feed the distressed one, the needy.