I'm ecstatic that they're in the league. West is a great measuring stick for the rest of us. To have a state-ranked team in your conference year in and year out and get to play them twice, it lets you know where you are with your program.

It is the latest in our route expansion from Chicago Midway. We added Minneapolis and Boston and they have gone real well.

We ended up getting two fewer planes than planned in'05, and that has a domino effect all the way through'06.

It gets old; we expect to play West tough. I hope our kids have gotten to the point where they expect to win. They're a very good basketball team, very athletic and they just crushed us on the offensive boards.