BIG TEN CONFERENCE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

March 4, 2026

Amy Williams

Britt Prince

Amiah Hargrove

Gainbridge Fieldhouse

Nebraska Cornhuskers

Postgame Press Conference

Indiana - 72, Nebraska - 69

THE MODERATOR: Joining us for Nebraska is Coach Amy Williams and student-athletes Britt Prince and Amiah Hargrove. Coach, if you will make an opening statement, then we'll turn it over for questions.

AMY WILLIAMS: Obviously this is an incredibly disappointing loss for our team. We led for 39 minutes and just found a way to let this game slip away. So it's very disappointing, but I still love coaching this team. I think they are a group that's still got basketball left in us, and we're excited that this will not be it for this team this season.

Q. Can you talk about what Indiana did differently in the first and second half defensively? You guys were on a heater in that first half. I think, Amiah, you missed one shot. What happened in that second half that kind of changed that for you guys?

BRITT PRINCE: They were being a lot more aggressive. I think they were obviously trying to take Amiah away a lot more. She had a great first half, and I think it made it harder for us to get it in to her.

They were a lot more aggressive, not letting us get paint touches, forcing us to shoot threes, and we kind of settled for threes and maybe shots that weren't the best shots for our team.

Q. In the first half the defense was impeccable. You guys were holding Ciezki in check. In the second half she started to go off. What were they doing defensively that started to take you guys out of your rhythm?

AMIAH HARGROVE: I think it was paint touches. We gave up way too many in that second half and they were getting easy shots off the rim, whether it be kick-out threes or dump-offs to their big. I think we just let them get downhill way too much and it just made things a lot harder for us.

BRITT PRINCE: And our transition defense was also struggling for a bit in the second half, and we just didn't get out to shooters when we needed to. Yeah, they got too many paint touches.

Q. You guys hopefully aren't done playing basketball this season, right? How do you as a team regroup from a loss like this?

AMIAH HARGROVE: I think it's sticking together. There's going to be a lot that we can learn from this game. I think something that we kind of saw all year was just looking at it, learning from it, building on it, attacking each day, and just sticking together, leaning on each other.

Because we do have a good group of girls, so I think just leaning into what we're good at.

Q. Amiah and Britt, you guys did very well playing the pick-and-roll off each other in the first half. What has that been like? Can you guys just talk about the chemistry you have formed over the season and how it was working for you in the first half?

BRITT PRINCE: It's great when we can get in that two-man game with me and Amiah. I think she sets great screens and always rolls hard. It's easy to get it to her when you're setting a great screen and rolling hard. Credit to her.

AMIAH HARGROVE: I also think Britt is so dangerous with the ball in her hands, so a lot of people go to double her and that leaves me open in the roll a lot and she's a great passer so she does a great job of getting it to me at the right time.

Q. I'm going to ask the same type of question. What did you see Indiana do differently in the first and second half that really caused you guys to struggle with them?

AMY WILLIAMS: I thought they did the opposite of what we did, and that was they just really hammered the paint. It was like they went to the basket. We both hit five threes today, but theirs were on 13 attempts, and ours were on 22.

I just thought there were a couple times where we took maybe some quick shots out of the flow of the rhythm of our offense from players we didn't really -- wasn't right in the rhythm of what we were looking for, and they got those long rebounds and turned those into paint touch points.

A couple turnovers to start the first half that we were looking to hit a roller like not maybe staying aggressive minded, thinking score off ball screen action, and then turn it over, and they were converting those turnovers, long rebounds with really aggressive attacking the paint.

That's something that I thought we maybe settled a little bit, and they continued to think attack.

Q. Can you speak of the play from Jessica and Logan tonight, that they always seem to really get in there, really gritty players, and how you feel that they're going to help you down when you play more basketball?

AMY WILLIAMS: Obviously Logan is one of the best 3-point shooters in the country. I think she's a player that every time she shoots, our team feels like it's got a chance to go in the basket. It's a credit to the type of shooter she is, but it's a credit to the work that she puts in. So she's always going to be a threat on the floor.

I think Jess is the same. Jess has some versatility in that post position, and it's something that both of those players, they want to be good. So we are going to keep challenging them to improve on both ends of the floor.

Q. In the first half you threw Callin and Kennadi at Ciezki, and they did a really good job of shutting her down and making her inconsistent with her shot ability. Then in the second half as they were still on her, she started getting loose. Is there something that changed in the defense that you saw that allowed her to get loose and start scoring and dishing the ball off to her teammates?

AMY WILLIAMS: I think they ran a couple of different looks and actions to try to loosen her up a little bit, but I think she's just one of those really dangerous weapons. You're not going to hold her down for long because, if you do a great job on her for a few possessions here or there, she's just got a mindset that she's going to keep coming at you.

Q. We've had some injuries, some pretty big major injuries all season long, and then Eliza getting hurt. How much do you think that kind of impacted the rotations, and did that bring on some fatigue? I think we had three players playing 34-plus minutes. Do you think any of that helped lead to the second half?

AMY WILLIAMS: I think that would be an easy excuse for us to make. When I look up in their box score and see that they had three players play 40 minutes and another one with 37 minutes.

So I think this is the time of year where obviously Eliza is a big piece and she is a great defender and rebounder and is capable of bringing double figure rebounds. So having her healthy would most definitely make an impact for our team, but I think that it would be maybe an excuse for us to try to say that fatigue was a factor.

Q. There are a lot of really good special talented guards in the Big Ten, and Britt is definitely one of them. Can you just talk a bit about what makes her special and kind of how she's different from a lot of the other guards we see across the conference?

AMY WILLIAMS: I think that what really makes Britt special is she is so versatile. She can be a pass-first point guard that can really make things happen for everybody else the way she distributes the ball and sees the floor and just makes our offense operate.

But also she's such a capable scorer at all three levels. She showed some really crafty finishes at the rim today. Her mid-range is elite. Then the fact that she's a 3-point threat, I know that people have been talking about both Shay Ciezki and Britt Prince being 50-40-90 kids.

It's unbelievable to me with the number of minutes they play and the shot attempts that they take, that they could be that type of efficient guards. It's one of the things that -- I love Britt's competitive spirit, but I love the way just that she's so efficient offensively and impacts the game in so many ways.