The University at Buffalo women's basketball team's road in the postseason begins Wednesday in Cleveland as they tip off the Mid-Atlantic Conference Tournament.
For a number of players, this is their last hurrah, including one who started her entire basketball journey not too far from where she's throwing the "horns up" one more time.
"We can't go in here and, knowing we're the three seed, right? At the end of the day, we're not [the] one," said Lani Cornfield. "And so the goal is to go in there and get the trophy."
From the Cattaraugus Reservation to the courts of UB's suburban campus, Cornfield's senior season with her fellow Bulls has gone almost as well as she'd liked.
"There's a lot of great things that we've done, a lot of good things that we have accomplished," she said. "But there's also some things that we that we wish we could have done better."
Cornfield and the Bulls capped off a 13-5 regular season campaign with a Senior Day victory and are hoping momentum will carry the team to even more success in the MAC tourney and beyond.
"I mean, we feel it," she said. "We feel good, especially after that win. So hopefully we can it can carry over."
The mantra for this Bulls team has been defense, and Cornfield just so happens to be the face of that, making the MAC's All-Defensive Team, which is among the honors and hardware with which she's rounding out her college career.
"I made it a point to really make sure that I've been representing my coaching, representing my community while being here," she said. "I hope that everything that I've done so far and, and hopefully will do, continues to show that the little kids, on the rides or wherever, that they can also do it too."
But she feels she has more to prove to kids on the reservations and anyone else who thinks this UB team is done dancing this year.
"We're not done until we get that championship," she said. "We're not done until I got a ring on my finger. We all got the same goal. We all know what we need to do. And so that's the goal."