I know I always pride myself on defense because that's what wins championships.

I missed basketball too much and I thought I had to give it a chance. And I found a home here at Winona and I like it a lot.

It seems like a lot longer than a week since we played. It's been quite a while, so I think we're ready. I think the team is focused. When it comes game time, we're always focused on the court.

As a team, we stay loose and really take it one game at a time. We know how important each game is. We just go out there and have fun.

Everyone will be up and be excited for that game.

Everybody keeps telling me Northern is our big rival so I guess you want to play well against your rival.

We like to push the ball up the floor, but mainly we focus a lot on defense. We play real good, solid defense and that creates a lot of fast breaks and easy buckets.

We're taking the approach that we can win this all, the whole thing.

That will definitely help us. We play Saturday and hopefully Sunday ? back-to-back games. It's great to get as much rest as you can.

I think everybody realizes how big this is. It's one game away ? our dream season. We just want to finish it out and carry this on.