At the beginning of the season, our goal was to make the NCAA.

We came out fired up. It’s an opportunity to play. That’s what we wanted. It’s not in the context we wanted. We wanted to be in the NCAA, obviously. It’s an opportunity keep playing ball.

We didn’t give them easy baskets early. Once they get going, they’re hard to stop. They have great offensive players.

At the same time, I would rather be playing than sitting home. This is our last chance to show the people we belong in the field of 65.

When I hit that shot, I was pretty excited. I just took a regular jump shot. I just made sure I took my time and luckily it went in.

I don’t know if we have their number. But we do play well against them. Maybe it’s because we have some Iowa guys on our team who really get up to play them.

Things seem to go our way when we play them.

We just picked it up on defense. It was really a good stretch that we had and got the lead.