This year's team has been a very pleasant surprise for us in a lot of ways. I expected this, but I'm not sure that maybe some of our fans and area teams did.
And I had some very good role players, some very intelligent players coming back that got minutes last year as the fifth, sixth, seventh men. I knew we would be in a situation where we could be successful.
A lot of people didn't expect much out of us this year, so it's been a fun year because we've been able to surprise. We go seven deep and have good balance. Our players can shoot, rebound and play good defense.
We've got six seniors playing a lot, so they should get the boards, they should take over in crucial times like that. University made a great run and they've got nothing to hang their head about.
We weren't sure if he'd be able to play today. We had so many kids banged up this week, we asked if our team bus could get a handicapped sticker.
We feel we match up with Oregon-Davis pretty well in terms of size. What concerns us about them, though, is they're very balanced offensively with all five starters capable of scoring in double figures.
