Kemper Arena was brand new my senior year. It was an awesome experience because you can see everybody play and get to talk to them. I really enjoyed that. It's really too bad they don't do that anymore.

I played with an awesome group of guys my four years and ended up going 9-0 my senior year and making the playoffs for the first time in the school's history. I'm pretty sure that no one else has gone 9-0 since that 95-96 season that I played in.

The year before I got there, KU was in the final four. At that time there were only 32 teams in the tournament. So you had to be one of the best to get in. It wasn't like today where the no. 1 seed plays a 16 seed that barely had a .500 season.

After my junior year coach Zacher came to me and said 'I was talking to the coaches at KU and they said they were interested in you.

The few years leading up to that season hadn't been that good. It was a turn-around year. We had good team chemistry. There was a whole new attitude with the new coach.

It was a good experience for me. To get out there and play with guys older than me, it was a really good experience.