We're happy to have the opportunity to get back down here with such a young team. We're going to have to play our best game of the year to beat them but . . . who knows?

Obviously, we didn't do very well with the big boy last year. We're certainly going to have more emphasis - not that we didn't last year - but we're going to make sure our kids are surrounding him and try to make somebody else beat us.

We're not going to finish at point-blank range with him standing there, so we're not even going to try that crap this year.

From a preparation standpoint, the fact that we've been there is going to help us this year.

We're going to have to shoot the ball well. Everybody says that; nobody seems to be able to do it against that tough defense. We're going to have to knock some threes down and really make them score in the half-court. They do a great job scoring in transition.

We knew we could help in certain places and focus on (Sims and Johnson). We have a bunch of smart kids who know how to play basketball. I'll take our guys to any team when it comes to doing the dirty work.