Welcome back inside the Ann Arbor Studios of the Big 1050 WTK online at the big 1050.com. In addition to, of course, the Michigan men's basketball team being in action last night. Tonight we have the Michigan women's basketball team in action at the Chrysler Center to get her ready for that matchup. Yesterday, we had immediate availability with the four teams that are playing at Chrysler. And I'll bring to you what the Michigan players and coach had to say.

We heard from Olivia Olson, Silas, Sauter, and Kim Barngerico.

So let's get to live in Scylla first. Here are Olivia Olson and Silas Sorge from yesterday now here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA. Ira Winshrop, Big 1050 WTKA for both of you. I know you came with the goal of being here.

So now that you are here to get ready to host,

just kind of talk about what you guys have been you came with the goal of being here. So now that you are here to get ready

to host, just kind of talk about what you guys have been talking about for the last few days.

Yeah, our goal coming in this year, I mean, even last year, was to host. And I think we talked about that a lot at the beginning of the season. And we accomplished that. But we want to keep going. And we want to get further than just hosting. So just keep our momentum going. We're excited. I think it's also recognizing that we've put the work in to get to this moment. We deserve to have that to see next to our name. We deserve to have these games being played in here in Ann Arbor. So just coming into this first round with a lot of confidence, trusting that we put the work in to get to where we are.

All right. Additional questions in the front here Larry. It's been a while since you played.

How have you stayed sharp? What did you do with the extra time? Kind of like a bye week, I guess.

Normally we split up the teams with starters and then bench players,

but coach has done a great job of just mixing up who we're playing with every day,

who we're playing against every day.

We've done a lot against each other rather than our practice squad,

and those are always very competitive because we all want to push each other to be better.

So our practices have been really intense and really high competitive really.

Yeah, I think it's just been a great week or two of just focusing on ourselves.

A lot of this season we've had to focus on scout in the next game,

but we were able, we didn't know our opponent for a while,

so we were able to focus on what our team identity and what we wanted leading into the tournament.

For our next question, we'll go to the right, about three rows back.

Matt Park, Michigan Radio.

Siler, you said the number two seed that you deserved, that's a new record for the program.

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