"We were focused on trying to beat the No. 1 team in the conference — at their place — who we lost to a month ago," Tucker, who played basketball and graduated from Canton High in 1987, said Wednesday. Canton won 52-39 in early February. "My goal was those 14 young men on my bench and getting them in the game ... a really competitive high school game within a conference, and that's really what we were focused on."