We talked about everything, about all the demons he'd been battling, some of the low points he'd been to, and I got to thinking that the album needed a real dark song.

Sam Larson can beat anybody in the state when he wants to wrestle well. Sometimes he's battling his own demons.

We talked as a team that his was a big game. If we won we'd be up by 10 points, if we lost we'd be up by six, so we wanted to put some distance between the teams behind us. It doesn't matter how pretty the wins are, we have to get as many points as we can.

Twelve minutes. We got into the locker room at 7:58, and we talked about until ten minutes after 8. That was it. I don't want to bring it up again. We have to move on because we have four tough games left.

We seem to have high peaks and low points, but more systems always seem to be coming in.

We talked a lot about their big guy -- he can score 30 points a game. We sort of picked our poison and said let's defend him as best we can and know where their two best shooters are and hope they don't get hot.