Norm Persin Quotations

We have our work cut out for us. We've done this for many years and used to go to Columbus to play bigger programs with a lot Division I athletes and always held our own. We'll see what happens.

We hope so, but I don't know if we can play that well. We'd like to play somewhere in between last week and today.

Every game we play and every team we play against it's a big game because we are Chesapeake. We're everybody's big game, and we have to play it that way.

They're a very explosive team. They've got five guys who can score 15 or more points a night. They're very scary. Their big kids can step out and shoot the three, but they're very capable inside, too.

It's important to us, and I think it's even more important to us that we've been able to move up into the upper bracket and win it last year and play for the title this year. We knew if we got to the championship game and were fortunate to beat Cabell Midland that we would face a very good team.

That second one we had a hand right in his face. They stretched the lead to six or seven and then we were taking bad shots. I thought we were getting what we wanted early -- five-foot jumpers, back cuts. But once the lead got away, we started to take bad shots.