We've never won this tournament since I've been here, and we've never beaten Cherokee. So this was a big step for us.

Getting in the tournament is big, but each step after that is such a great commercial for your program. It helps recruiting, it sells tickets, all those things. It gives your program so much more visibility around the country.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

We haven't beaten anyone in the playoffs yet, and that's what we have to do. We've won a lot of big games in the regular season, but we need to win playoff games to get respect.

We were 2-8 in the SEC and won six straight. And [we] got to the NCAA Tournament.