An upset over top-seeded Stanford on Sunday night provided Ole Miss women's basketball coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin – known to most as 'Coach Yo' – a platform for reflection.

And reflect she did, throughout a press conference lasting over 30 minutes. Among the highlights was a story about how she landed the job to be the Rebels' head coach. Coming off a third-straight 20-win season at Jacksonville in 2018, she placed a call to the athletic department with a simple question: "What are you guys doing?"

"I'm hot," she said. "And y'all can get me for cheap. And I'm recruiting my butt off with a $20,000 recruiting budget. Give me yours and watch what I do."

Here's what she did: After three years of building, she achieved back-to-back fourth-place finishes with a program that hadn't had a winning season in the SEC for more than a decade. She went to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007, then went again the following season. And, Sunday, she upset a No. 1 seed in its home building on the heels of back-to-back Final Four runs and a national championship.

Her phone call was bold. Her performance has backed it up.

"I wasn't Ole Miss' first choice," she told ESPN postgame. "But I was the right one. And I was naive enough to think that I could do it."

The Rebels will take on the winner of Texas vs. Louisville in the Sweet 16.