Who was that vet that was most influential on you during that season in 1997?

Yeah, well, I mean, you know, we were all young that year, right? We didn't have any seniors, so we were all kind of, you know, learning on our own and, you know, supporting each other through it.

But for me, it was the year before.

I mean, you know, Joseph Blair and Ben Davis were the ones that kind of, you know, beat me up the entire year, you know, taught me how to be an Arizona Wildcat, you know, taught me, you know, how to, how to develop my game and what I needed to do on and off the court.

And so I kind of took that and those lessons from the year before and applied them, you know, to, to the year that we won the championship.

And for me, it was a, it was a, it was an up and down year, right.

Until all the way to the end, like I was, I was still developing, kind of finding my footing, um, you know, developing my game and what my role was and, I just try to take those lessons of coming in, working every single day, working hard, listening to Coach O and the coaches and doing whatever the team needed to win.

over that six-game stretch, what did you think was the key to that?