We played well. We’re finally starting to come together. We’ve been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about...

Once the flow of the game went through three quarters and it was nip and tuck, we knew it was going to go down to the end.

We’ll have opportunities to experience Appalachian culture and learn why poverty is an issue there. As I understand it, just 7,500 people live there and about 20 percent of them live below poverty level.

We’re from Michigan. We’re only excited because it’s in Detroit.

This is really important to make sense of the experience and to grow from it.