I think that we earned some respect today. We still have a couple of big games ahead of us, and we are still going to try and prove people wrong.
We finally proved to people that we can win tough games. We wanted to prove we were the best team in the Big 12.
They said we were going to get killed in Big 12 play. We're proving people wrong right now.
I think it's great. We did get off to a bad start, but we showed some toughness by winning 12 of our last 13 games. We are a young team and not many people expected much out of us. We just try to go out there and play hard every day, and it paid off in the end.