Jimmy Young

They stepped it up when Josh was in trouble. That's what good teammates do. They really picked us up.

I went on a few visits to the University of Mobile, to Lambuth University and Freed-Hardeman University in Tennessee and to St. Francis here in Indiana, ... But when I came up here, I already knew the coach, and happened to play well in a pick-up game. I really liked his system and the type of offense he wants to run. He's a good guy. Plus, it will give me a chance get away from home a little bit.

We didn't make shots. We can stay in games and play really hard, but if you don't make shots, what can you do

I'm ready to get things going, get in the groove and start working, ... I've been working hard the last two years at Columbia State and really want to play well here, and make something of myself.

They're the best team in our district, no doubt. They've got a bunch of shooters and when you've got shooters, you can do things.

You're going to lose games, but it's how you respond. I thought the kids did an excellent job. Our defense was the key to us getting some easy baskets early.

They did a pretty good of getting the message that we needed better play. They did an excellent job out there of running the ball club.

This is great for our confidence. We know that we can play with anybody. Columbia's got a good team. I don't care what anybody says.

We set up to throw long if it was wide open and it was wide open. We just made a bad throw, but you can't blame the kids because that what we told them to do.

I couldn't have asked to play for any better of a coach, ... He put me in the right spots, and if it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't be playing college basketball. Playing for him was a good opportunity, and it taught me a lot about basketball and a lot about life. Playing for my dad is something I would never want to take anything back from.

I told them after the game that I wasn't really mad at them, because we played really hard. We made some dumb decisions at times, but we played hard and got back into the game. The attitudes were good on the floor, because we have had some attitude problems. But we got out and hustled, and fought and fought and fought. And we had a chance to get back into the game.

Each year he has improved tremendously to become the dominant player that he was this year. He was drawing double and triple teams. He garnered a lot of attention.