What he (Snyder) told us is, it's an opportunity to get back to playing basketball. All the speculation was a heavy burden.

Playing basketball at the Naval Academy has been a great opportunity for all of us. We've accomplished some goals and not others, but along the way we've learned a lot and grown a lot.

I think for us it was an opportunity to keep moving the program forward and take the expectations higher. Basketball is the foundation sport of our athletics program. It's our heritage and we're proud of that.

I love the series. I'm excited about it.

This game should be a good opportunity for us to work on several things. We still have some work to do to become a 40-minute defensive team.

It gives us an opportunity, a way to force the owners to either bring them back up to code or move them out.