NCAA TOURNAMENT with Jamie Morrison (2 of 2)

John Mayer· Host0:00

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Billy Allen· Host0:13

Okay, we wanna go more. I know we've already touched on the postseason and NCAA tournament, but really, uh, spend a little more time there. Uh, you, you'd mentioned you guys, you guys lost in the, the semis of the SEC tournament. Uh, yeah, I guess, how did you learn from that? How do you prepare going into the NCAA tournament, you know, having that setback?

Jamie Morrison· Guest0:32

Yeah. I, I think, one, like we were right there. I, I think there was a feeling that we were good enough. And the interesting piece, and I said this as I went to the locker room afterwards, like there was a feeling of grief because like you're getting this one and done situation, and usually for us, that was the first time we'd been in that tournament, like the one and done is you're done. So all of a sudden it was like, hey, like we should be upset. We talked about it in the locker room, like we should feel hurt right now, and luckily we had, I don't know, seven days to kinda get ready for the tournament after that. I was like hurt for a couple days, but use this as fuel that we have to get better, and I thought it was a, I don't know. We talked a lot about like using those failures as opportunities to get better. So here's these three or four things that we have to upgrade the next time if we see Texas in order to go beat them. But it created some hunger around, "Hey, like we still have some more meat on the bone to get better at here." Um, so I think that was a big piece of it. And, uh, again, I was iffy on the conference tournament at the beginning, but like I was really happy that we had that experience afterwards.

Billy Allen· Host1:22

When you head into the postseason, like how does practice change if it does at all?