To compete against George Mason twice a year, and to know those guys personally, you can't help but root for them. They're showing everybody how good our conference really is, and that's why we're all proud of what they've done. It's like we have a little piece of it.

That second game shows us that we're almost there. We've still got to turn the corner, but it shows that we can compete with anybody if we play our best.

When you lose tough games like we have, you have to learn how to pull those out. We've done that [at home]. We saw those losses as a learning experience.

She needed more help than what she got at the emergency room.

It's a cool way to help out, and it's cheap. It was just something different.

We wanted to do something to help rebuild the city, to contribute something that would help the residents directly. When you give monetary donations, you're not sure if the people who need the help actually get it. This opportunity to rebuild the community physically got us really excited.