When I signed, I told coach that my goal was to someday play in the Sweet 16. And for it to finally happen in my senior season is incredible.
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I've never even been inside of a dome. I've played football in a basketball gym, but never basketball inside a football arena.
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We watched that (selection show) and it kind of hurt us to our heart. We felt we deserved to be in the NCAA tournament.
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It didn't change anything. We just had to regroup, keep our poise and fight and claw our way back.
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What we do is feed Jai and feed all the big guys. When we played [the Spartans] last year, Tony was just coming off breaking his wrist and having surgery. . . . Not having Tony out there won't affect this team.
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He crossed his legs. He folded his arms. He was just talking like it was a normal conversation.
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Coach does a great job of keeping us loose, and we just rally around that. We're just having a lot of fun. We play baseball in practice, he sings, he dances ...
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No one came this far just to settle for the Elite Eight.
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It's indescribable. It's like a dream come true.
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Never stop dreaming. We didn't. I looked up and saw my mother crying. My father was crying. This is pure joy.
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