The chants usually start when there are just a few minutes left in the game.

The students of the winning team always like to have the last word.

"Nah-nah-nah-nah, hey-hey-hey, goodbye."

It's now part of a high school game just as much as it is to have your hand stamped when you walk through the door.

The chants are usually the same from school to school.

"It's all over. It's all over."

But then there is something different.

"We love Quincy"

Hugh?

At Lone Peak, the Knights have their own chant, unique to any other school.

"We love Quincy."

You never knew when the students will bust it out.

"We love Quincy."

That would be Lone Peak boys basketball coach Quincy Lewis.

The origin of the chant can actually be traced to the brother of a former Lone Peak player and after a few years has now become a tradition.

How do you get a chant of your own?

You win, you have personality, and the respect of the students.

That formula has worked for Lewis at Lone Peak and wherever else he's been.

At age 36, it's like Lewis has been using Career Builder express. He broke into the coaching business as an assistant at BYU-Hawaii. He took an assistant job at Utah Valley State and then moved to Southern Utah.

He spent eight years as a college assistant coach before the opening at Lone Peak caught his eye. Lone Peak has always been viewed as a good, but if difficult job; a place where the expectations of parents can keep coaches from getting too comfortable.

The young school has already gone through three previous coaches. Carl Ingersoll was the first head coach. He coached for two years before retiring and giving way to Ryan Cuff, who won a state championship and coached for three years before calling it quits in 2002. Mike May took over for Cuff. He coached just one year before he resigned and Lewis was hired.

"First of all you want to be in a place that has expectations to do well. Whenever you take a job like this, you need to understand there are going to be problems that need to be solved going in," Lewis said. "Communication and organization are really important. Most of your problems or potential problems are going to be solved through those two things."

Even though Lewis has now established Lone Peak's program as one of if not the premiere 5A programs in the state, there are still problems.

"Yesterday I had a dad my office who thought his kid should play more. I read him the stats and obviously, I thought he was getting the playing time he deserved. That usually takes care of a problem. In our parent meeting we talk about how to handle things and make sure the parents understand that everyone is in this together, that we're not in it to see who plays in college."

The Lone Peak goal is to win, not produce college players, but in the process the Knights have done both. On this year's team, their are three players who have already signed to play at Division I schools with another one (Tyler Haws) on the way.

Lewis knows what it takes to play at the college level. As a player, Lewis was one of top guards in the state in 1988 when he helped Timpview complete a 25-0 season and win a 3A title.

The following year as a senior, Lewis was named Most Valuable Player as he helped Timpview repeat as 3A champs. He then took his career to Dixie State College and then to Wagner College in New York before turning his attention to coaching.

It's that background that his father Tim believes has given him the diversity to be successful.

"He's had the most extensive background a coach could ever have," Tim Lewis said. "From the time he was five-years-old, he was at (our) practice every day. He would be at every game, ride the bus with the team, and go into the locker room. Even when I was with coach (Jim) Spencer at the Provo High days, he was always around basketball. From the time he was in the seventh grade he would practice 12 hours a day. He's pretty much self-driven."

Tim Lewis won two state championships as a head coach and three others as an assistant coach. He is in the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.

Quincy would love to one day join him and he is well on his way.

If there is any doubt about Quincy's passion for the game, just look at his two young sons. Four-year-old Kodiak's middle name is "Winn" and two-year-old Cooper Quincy Lewis already has the nickname, "Coop to the Hoop."

Basketball has been such a big part of Lewis' life that he can tell you the uniform number for most professional basketball players.

For example.

Want to know the USA Dream Team Olympic uniform number of John Stockton?

Just ask.

His amazing recall doesn't end with basketball.

He can tell what number Ken Griffey Sr. wore with the Seattle Mariners and he will rattle of the numbers of players like Otis Armstrong of the Denver Broncos or Bruce Sutter with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Remember Vida Blue?

Lewis does. He was a pitcher for the Oakland A's. He wore No. 35.

It's almost as amazing as Lewis' winning percentage of .801.

More amazing is his state championship percentage of 50 percent.

In his four years as a head coach, he's won it all twice.

Since he took over at Lone Peak, the Knights are 85-21. His teams have made the playoffs in three of his four years. "I think he is one of the brightest high school coaches I have ever been around," said Fresno State assistant coach Jeff Reinert, who hired Lewis at Utah Valley State. "He learned a lot from his father and from his vast amount of experience. He's fair and honest with the kids whether they want to hear it or not. He has a great passion for what he does and he's extremely good at it."

With Lewis' success and his college coaching ties, naturally the question eventually comes up: Would you take a college job?

"I really like Lone peak. If it was the right situation, I might be interested," Lewis said. "There's no reason to leave unless it was something really good. I was offered the head coaching job at Dixie, but I turned it down because the timing wasn't right. For me it has to be just the right job."

Lewis isn't worried about other jobs. His job right now his sole focus is on Pleasant Grove, this week's opponent. Friday night in Pleasant Grove, the top two teams in the Utah Valley play for the top spot in Region 4.

"We are a work in progress right now. In the summer we missed (Bracken) Funk for a month and Haws was out two months broken wrist. Our guys never really played together until end of November," Lewis said. "This team is much different than last year's team where we had everyone together since the spring and hit ground running. It will be a great environment and there will be lot of excitement."

And there may even be another chant from the Lone Peak stands.

"We love Quincy."