Jalen Suggs: Paige Bueckers’ advice helped me make Final Four

The Gonzaga guard shared how his childhood friend - a star herself at UConn - uplifted him before the Bulldogs’ win to advance to the Final Four.

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[CHEERING]

- I wanted to ask if you watched the women's game last night between UConn and Baylor and if you had texted Paige a little bit. And we're wondering if, you know, her exploding on the court motivated you at all tonight.

JALEN SUGGS: Oh, of course, I was extremely nervous. All game, I was pacing back and forth. I couldn't sit down. But yeah, I had it on. And then I texted her after. And then we FaceTimed and talked for a little bit. And last night, she said some things that really helped me because, you know, I've been kind of-- I've been kind of struggling, trying to-- trying to catch-- get my footing in these tournament games.

And of course, seeing her-- seeing her go out there and play great like she did and then talking afterwards, she kind of said some words. It kind of got me uplifted, get me going, definitely helped tonight. But yeah, that was a great game last night. She's the GOAT for a reason. So yeah, I was definitely tuned into it.