[Applause] uh first of all stephanie thanks for being here congratulations you must be on such a high right now this has been the greatest three weeks of my life yeah we've just been on a ride and i've been riding as long as i can on a slightly negative note so many people are mad at you for ruining their ncaa pool if anybody's out there i'm sorry about that single-handedly you screwed everything up you know as a college guy i'm big on facebook and i get tons of random messages from people saying uh i hate you
you just yeah just joined ruined it all for me so i mean yeah i'm happy everyone do you get to participate in ncaa pool definitely not i mean ncaa violation if we do so yes violation plug out there i i'm not part of anything yeah uh okay uh davidson your your school an incredible underdog uh hadn't won an ncaa tournament in 40 years is that correct you guys come out of nowhere the stunning performance did you think that you could pull this off i mean we came in thinking that we could play with anybody in
the country and uh it showed when we got out there but uh i think we would break the records that we did or uh we exceeded a lot of people's expectations so i'm just happy to be a part of it and gives our coach mckillop something to be proud of he's been there 19 years and he's gotten there to the tournament three times but hadn't won a game and then we won three so it's a big big change for us now what's it like you go back to you know when you're winning these games you
go back to campus what was the reaction when you go back to campus well being at davidson uh we we finished i think sunday at about 11 got back at 3 a.m and wrecked class at 8 30 in the morning um and and actually i walked in kind of late sorry coach don't tell anybody but uh i can't believe you made it to an 8 30 class after what you did you know it was tough but uh i walked in and i was a little late and uh teacher kind of stopped teaching and just everybody
gave us an applause as me and one of my teammates and just gave some applause and i sat down kind of awkwardly i just didn't know what to do and then uh i'd have known what to do but i've been like yeah i'd have been like canoes that stupid bear had to rip my clothes off you know uh you for all your success you get teased on the court some by the opposition opposing fans for your baby face they give they try and give you a hard time try and rattle you definitely uh opposing fans
they they come up with all sorts of tags to kind of make fun of me i got one seven o'clock game one guy was like it's past your bedtime why are you out here right and uh i think i get confused with my brother he's a senior in high school going to liberty and i walk around with my dad in charlotte and like oh are you going to liberty next year right and i'm like no i'm the one at davidson and i suppose supposed to know but i guess me and you kind of have a
struggle with the facial hair area so uh all right i'm gonna let that slide because you're right [Laughter] well you grew you grew some facial hair but it's it's tough i got a spot right here that does not want to grow i heard there's some kind of product that you could use i haven't found it yet i'm looking for it i can help you let's talk after the show it gets ugly you're talking to the right guy um i'm just curious so many uh successful athletes and and especially ones that get on such a you
know hot streak uh the way you've been playing they have a ritual like a pre-game ritual that helps them feel comfortable helps them feel like they're they're gonna win uh what about you do you have a pregame ritual you superstitious that way me and my my roommate uh we're roommates all year long on the road uh we he takes a nap we both take pregame naps it has to be at the same time the same time every day before a game that doesn't sound so cool not the same bad or nothing yeah you got it
you just got it you got to get it right he wakes up 10 minutes before i do takes a shower i can't get out of the bed until he gets out right it's it's kind of kind of nitty but i mean it we get it done and if we don't it would get kind of nervous so we kind of stick to it so i just love the idea of like all right guys pregame now have your apple juice grab your blanket nap time we're going to go out there and kick some ass but first nap
uh now a lot of people are talking about this you've had you had such a sensational performance everybody in the country all the scouts are talking about you now uh you could go pro you said you you don't think you want to do that uh personally there's something i'm ready for to i'm confident the team we have coming back next year i got to change my role to play point guard uh to feel jason richards a spot who's on our team's top point guard in the nation and i just don't feel like i'm ready to
get to get there and there's no need to rush it and get education you know well good for you i think that's fantastic i really do that's great you know it's a big temptation um now what uh what predictions do you have for the for the final four what do you think's going to happen we've played uh three of the four final four teams so i have a pretty good uh uh a pretty good experience with all of them i i think unc is going to take it just because of hansboro and the amount of
depth they have on the floor uh i think it's going to be unc and ucla in the championship and i think unc will take it wow okay i'm going to i'm going to write that down put a lot of money on that and then come looking for you if it doesn't happen uh you know i i i you're having such a fantastic week everyone wants to talk to you but uh thanks for making time for us really pleasure talking to you yeah continued success good man stephen curry everybody we'll take a break we'll be right
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