 and a man who just picked up his 200th career victory and more importantly is back in the NCAA tournament with a Matt Commonwealth championship win. He is Coach Paul Cantabena. Coach, first of all, congratulations both on the championship and on win number 200. I know we're not gonna go too much into personal accolades, but it's gotta be somewhat meaningful to you. Well, it's always great when you hit those miles, stolen type of numbers, but it's really not about me and the 200 wins. It's about really all the people that go into, especially the university, Kevin Manning, when he first came here hiring me, giving me the opportunity and all the guys in the president's cabinet, to the admissions people, to all the players that have played with us. We've been very lucky to have some very, very talented guys that have played with us and it's great and it's really all about the people you work with and especially I just mentioned to the team, Tim Paul, she's been with me for 13 years and Tim's done such a great job the whole time. So it's a great thing to do, but we got more work to do, but it's always good to hit that and I think it's more important for the program type thing, how far we've come and at first got here, I thought my record would be 56 and 200, not 256. So it's nice to see what we have accomplished at Siebensted in just a short 13 years. It's truly a miracle where we came from, to where we are now. Coach, back to the game tonight, obviously it was a big win for you and other conference championship, it's five in a row, I believe. Talk about the seniors that stepped up tonight in tonight's game and what that means for you heading into the NCAAs. Well, you know, it's really great to see Ross down and play well. You know, he's a guy that, you know, he struggled a little bit not to tell you the truth a little bit and we're there, but you know, he stepped up and his play in the last three games has really been outstanding. You know, he's stepped up and done what he's case. He wants to practice the next day, he's given it all and he understands to be a senior, you know, Dylan Harris. And you know, he's not a senior. He played outstanding tonight, Drew Cromode, played outstanding Tyler Furman, the big goal at the end of the quarter, you know, making those plays. Those are guys that, you know, you can say Paris Young, those seniors just playing so hard, understanding me, you can't even run by him defensively and he's a short stick and he's doing such a great job. So those seniors are really starting to kind of understand that, you know, this is any day can end and they want to keep practicing. I think that's the biggest thing we want to practice. You know, our guys want to come out every day and give the effort and the sweat and be together. They don't want to do that. The tough part about the NCAA tournament is that it can end any day and you really got to go and the team's going to be different from when that ends and you got to cherish every moment you have together. So those seniors understand that a little bit and think we're getting great play, especially out of, you know, Donna Frio, you know, I think he started out a little slow today and then he's like, I got to pick it up and I thought he was flat out, great drawn slides and moving it and playing just tough and he hit some big shots and probably could have had a few more he'll tell you but he still played great. Team was tested in the first quarter, obviously if you fell behind. All right, that's tested. Do you think that can benefit you that you were faced with a test like that and that they answered it the resounding way that they did? Well, we've done a good job all year and getting behind and coming back. I think we've done a really good job with that and I think the guys understand it's a long game and we got down and we made some dumb plays. Chas misses the ground ball all by himself and they make a play and they score goal and, you know, we gave us some dumb things like that and we got to do better, you know, and offensively we had some good shots and I give them credit. Their goal, we played the best game of his young career and he did a great job and made some big saves while we were putting pressure on him and, you know, anytime I play zone it takes a while to break it down a little bit and I think we did a good job with it but it was a good day and we're happy to win our fifth one and hopefully we'll have a few more here. Coach, with the tournament coming up soon, obviously selection Sunday tomorrow, what do you expect from seating wise from the tournament, from the committee and where you guys might be playing? You know what I mean to predict what the NCAA Committee is gonna do? I haven't predicted that in a while but, you know, it's gonna be interesting with some of the upsets that happened today, what's gonna happen, you know, especially with Coralyn losing and Bates losing and tomorrow in the Nescaq championship game, you know, Middlebury wins is really gonna put the committee in a situation to where these pool seas are gonna go and what's gonna happen so we're just excited to be in it. We could get a home game, you know, we've had a pretty good regional ranking and stuff or we could be on the road but for now we're just happy to be in it, we'll go anywhere, we'll tell us to play, we'll play and we'll look forward to it and but I think our guys are excited to be back in it and for the, I think this is our ninth straight year being an NCAA tournament so I think only eight other teams have been in the tournament for nine straight years like we have and that's just another kind of great thing we've been able to accomplish and not many teams win five conference championships in a row no matter what the conference is and that's still a great accomplishment for us. All right, before we let you go, I just found out last night that your brother is a ref. I had no idea. I didn't know that either. Yeah, and I've no help. I mean, we know your relationship with refs. That's great, that's tremendous. Tremendous relationship with refs, we get together. I did ask the referee in the end and he goes, why does he call so many things against us? It's because you sliced the golf ball so much and you didn't find it as funny as me but I thought it was pretty funny but no, Rob, my brother, Rob's, you know, he's, you know, we're kind of like, you ever see the movie Twins? Yeah. You know, like I'm kind of like, you know, I'm six foot and my brother's five foot four and so we're kind of like the complete opposites and I have hair, he's bald, you know, I'm funny, he's not, you know, so it's, no, but Rob's a great guy. In your heart, when you see him, do you just immediately go to yelling at him or no? He actually calls me and tells me to lighten up sometimes or he goes, hey, that was a good call or you should do this or that but you know, it's great that he's official. That's what he wants to stay involved in the game. You know, he went to Elmira College and he wanted to stay involved and he's been moving up all the time so he had the Clarkson RIT game the other day so he's moving up and hopefully he'll get some division one game soon. He does a great job. You know, I kind of kidded with Jay Kuna, Tex and Jake and go, hey, I don't think my brother helped you out and he didn't blow the whistle all game because that's the way I like it. I thought he did a great job. But you know, he does a great job. So Rob, keep it up and we're proud of you and just keep it up. We're proud of another conference championship here. Hopefully at home on Wednesday night, wherever it is, we'll see you there, all right? Thanks a lot, guys. Congratulations, Coach. Coach Paul, can't the better.