We had very high expectations for her. Because, first of all, she's a very good basketball player, and she's also very driven. She's a very competitive person. It's absolutely no surprise to me that she's had a really good freshman year.

I think it's a good thing to have high expectations for your basketball program,

I think it's a good thing to have high expectations for your basketball program. But I think we all recognize at the end of the day, what the polls say on Nov. 28, in the whole scheme of things, isn't really important. It's early, those polls and rankings are going to change.

He has a real consistent ideology about basketball, which I appreciate a lot. He sets high expectations, but he is clear about them. From freshman year to senior year, he helped me develop as a player. The tradition continues.

Right now the kids are playing good basketball as a team. We had high expectations for ourselves and now we're going to try to build on that.

I think for us it was an opportunity to keep moving the program forward and take the expectations higher. Basketball is the foundation sport of our athletics program. It's our heritage and we're proud of that.