It was definitely a learning process. It was obviously the first time I was getting to play collegiate ball, but I had a great coach and great experience.

Sixteen days is way too long. It's a long, long time to wait to play.

I guess it's just having time to play with each other and learning each other, just finding out how he wants to play and vice versa. He told me coming into the season that he wasn't doing his job if I didn't average four or five more points than I had been, and he was right because I am. ... We work together. We find out what plays we want to run. When we call plays for him, he tells me things he can do to get me an easy basket. And when a play is called for me, I let him know, if they take certain things away from me, what I can get for him. So it's just having some chemistry, being together and having a coach that understands that both of us need the ball and understands how both of us want to play.

I am ready because I think I missed that responsibility by being out my senior year in high school. I am one of the loudest ones out on the field and there's a lot of responsibility on me and Jamie [Komar].

I have learned that you have to buckle down. I think in a way my injury taught me a lot about that. I also have very smart and supportive teammates. I've definitely learned a lot about maturity through all of this.

I was affected because I was thinking how I had worked so many years for that. I was thinking to myself how it was better than for it to happen in college, until...