Full Saint Louis Postgame Press Conference Transcript

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Brooke Flowers scored a team-high 17 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds, and Camree Clegg and Kyla McMakin also scored in double figures in Saint Louis' 95-50 loss to Tennessee Saturday in an NCAA Championship first-round game at UT's Thompson-Boling Arena.
 
Saint Louis, seeded 13th in the Seattle 3 Region, finished an historic season with a 17-18 record. The Billikens won 11 of their last 13 games, captured the first Atlantic 10 Conference tournament title in program history and played in the NCAA Tournament for the first time.
 
Tennessee, the No. 4 seed in Seattle 3, advances to the round of 32 with a 24-11 mark.
 
Flowers was 7-of-11 from the field and 3-of-4 from the foul line. She also registered five blocked shots to finish her career with a school-record 398 rejections, ranking 17th in NCAA Division I women's basketball history. Flowers passed two players on the blocks list Saturday, including UConn legend Rebecca Lobo.
 
Flowers' nine rebounds lifted her school-record total to 1,256. Her 17 points gave her 1,284 for her career, good for 11th place in SLU history.
 
Clegg finished with 12 points on 4-of-8 shooting, including a pair of 3-pointers, while McMakin tallied 11.
 
Julia Martinez collected a game-high five assists.
 
Flowers scored the first basket of the game, and the Billikens led 4-3 following a McMakin bucket. A 15-4 run put Tennessee on top 18-8, but SLU closed the quarter with baskets from Clegg and McMakin and McMakin's banked-in 3-pointer at the buzzer to trail 20-15.
 
Early in the second quarter, the Billikens closed the gap to 24-22 on two Flowers free throws, a Clegg triple and Clegg's steal and layup.
 
It was all Tennessee from there, however, as the Lady Volunteers finished the first half on a 24-2 spurt and maintained command the rest of the way.