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.

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.

I was telling Jay I wasn't sure he was good enough for the Big Ten.

We have to find someone who wants to take the big shot. Dee is a very confident kid. Now he has to back it up.

I think they understand [their roles], but once in a while they slip out of it. The big guys are posted up at 9 feet [from the basket], and I tell them they're not Karl Malone. But they don't know who Karl Malone is, so that doesn't do any good.

NSS has strongly supported competition in both the NASA Commercial Re-supply Services program and the Commercial Crew program.