 That's where I've been shopping this summer. Well, please be seated. We'd be delighted to have all of you here and to congratulate you on your stunning success this week. Leon Barmore, the coach of that fine Louisiana tech team that you defeated, said that Tennessee played the greatest defensive game I've ever seen. Believe me, I had a special feeling about all of you coming here today because, perhaps you know, lately I've been playing a little defensive ball myself, but I, well, I do know what this victory meant to all of you, and especially to Coach Pat Summit. Pat, after 12 years of tremendous effort, your coaching and the heart and skill of these terrific young ladies gave you the victory that you so long deserved. I've heard that you were up until 3 o'clock in the morning devising that defensive strategy. Obviously, it was sleep well lost because it worked masterfully out in the court. So it's wonderful to see someone as deserving as you lead this team to victory, and we all support you. And I want to compliment Captain Shelley Sexton and the members of the team on a tremendous season, a season that demanded a great deal of each one of you. The University of Tennessee is a remarkable educational institution, and I think all of you have shown yourselves to be representatives of that great volunteer education and sports tradition. Your President, Ed Boling is here, and Ed, I hope you take back my personal congratulations to the student body, the alumni, the trustees, and the people of your great state. Tell them for me that I was very proud to have such a great group of young athletes here at the White House today. By the way, you might throw in my thanks for loaning me Howard Baker, too. But again, Pat and ladies, each of you has done something very special this year. You've made your friends and neighbors and supporters very proud, and your victory is something to enjoy now, to remember all your years. When I was playing college football, our coach used to tell us in an effort to inspire us that the things we would really remember the longest were the games we lost, and we'd be the rest of our lives thinking about, well, have we done this or done that. I have a hunch that you'll remember this game for a long time and well, you should. So thank you all, and God bless you. President Reagan, I knew if there was anyone in America that could appreciate that defense, it would be you. Thank you. I think you also can appreciate, as we appreciate, just say no to drugs. And the campaign that Nancy Reagan has done such a great job with. For this team, just say yes has been something that we've been proud of. First of all, for our program academically, our 100% graduation rate that we are very proud of. And athletically, we've made eight trips to the final four in the past 11 years. I can tell you that winning the national championship was indeed the greatest honor that this team could bring to our university. And we, today, when we got up, I said the team was as anxious, as excited, and as nervous, coming here to have this opportunity as they were playing for a national championship. The honor is just as sweet as the victory. Thank you. Mr. President, on behalf of all of us from Tennessee, we thank you for inviting us to be here today. We are very honored. We have a few gifts that we would like to present to you. First of all, we have your converse weapons. Now maybe you can play one-on-one for a day in our shoes. And these also are for Nancy Reagan. Ms. Reagan, we thank you. Next, we have a basketball from a 1987 women's basketball championship team with our autographs on the basketball and coaches. And we present that to you. And Cheryl has the championship t-shirt we'd like for you to have also. Well, thank you very much. He's ready to play. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm most grateful for all of these. And I have a hunch that in a couple of years, this will be on display in a presidential library. And I'll be very proud to have it there, and proud for all of you. And thank you. Thank you very much. I'm ready to go. I can't help but take a little second and tell you something. I used to be a sports announcer. And back in the Midwest, back in the early 30s, that was a whole different sensory practically to all of you. But at that time, I developed quite a thing about girls' basketball. Because in Iowa, you may not know this, but in that era, high school girls' basketball was so great and so prominent that every year at the state tournament for the championship, the girls' box office was greater than that were the male players for the state championship. So any of you from Iowa here that maybe found your way? Didn't find your way down there. All right. Well, again, thank you very much. Thank you.