"This is what you dream about all your life," Seimone Augustus says.

LSU is enjoying the hometown attention at the Final Four. But they must figure out how to turn the local love into some energy on the court. Last time the Tigers faces the Vols, they were listless, and they got spanked.

But even the Vols agree that much has changed since then. "I watched them play their last two games," Brittany Jackson said. "They look like a totally different team."

On the other side, Coach Summitt will be missing her friend Coach Gunter. "It breaks my heart that she cannot be on the bench for this," she said. "Because of all she's meant to so many players and coaches and just people that love this game. Obviously, that doesn't seem fair."