We played about 10 minutes of real good basketball. I don't know if it was our best stretch this season, but we played strong.

It's real special when two teams bring everything they have to a championship basketball game. Both teams played exceptional defense, and this one feels good.

It goes to the athletic arena, but not necessarily the basketball arena. There are many other issues for the 21 sports. We haven't really got to that point yet.

I have a junior varsity team playing varsity basketball.

That was the best first half of basketball we have played all season tonight. Defensively we did a really good job of containing both Leon and Williams, not letting them hurt us with their outside shooting. But the big key I felt was holding Windham to just one shot with our rebounding, as both Derek Ward and Mark Redding had strong games inside.

I don't know of any city that embraces basketball like ours.