Zach Edey & Purdue take care of NC State, advance to first title game since 1969
Zach Edey, Fletcher Loyer and Lance Jones discuss the Boilermakers’ Final Four win over NC State, advancing to their first National Championship game in 55 years.
Video Transcript
ZACH EDEY: This game is what we've been talking about all year. The reason I came back is playing games like these. Really, the reason I've been playing college basketball for four years is-- like if you talk about this every year and to finally get to this game is big time, and then we got to obviously keep going and keep playing. But, yeah, these are the games you come back for, and these are the games that you play for, and you work and you practice every day for.
FLETCHER LOYER: It's everything we've worked for, everything we've thought about. A lot of late nights, you can't even sleep because you're thinking about it. It's been tough, but we fought and we're going to keep fighting. We got 40 more minutes until we're national champs. So we're going to push everybody as far as we can and we're going to play as hard as we can.
LANCE JONES: Every win is not going to be nice and pretty. This one happened to be grinded out. We stuck with it. They made runs. We had dead periods. But most importantly, we stayed with it and we got necessary stops down the stretch.
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