Big Sandy opens with Noxon at State C

It isn't often that a coach asks his team to be a little more cocky, especially a team that is 21-0 on the season. But Big Sandy boys basketball coach Roy Lackner does as his team enters today's Class C State Boys Basketball tournament in Billings.

Obviously, Lackner doesn't want his players to be too smug or arrogant, but he wants them to be more self-confident than usual. After all, they earned it.

"I don't think they will be too nervous," Lackner said. "I want them to be a little more cocky, not to believe that we're better than anyone else, but that we deserve to be here as much as anyone...