WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) — It was a welcome home to remember in Williamsburg Monday afternoon as more than 100 William & Mary’s faithful gathered outside of Kaplan Arena to greet their Tribe women’s basketball team after their historic week. 

The Tribe ran the CAA conference tournament table, taking down Campbell Sunday in the championship game. William & Mary has had basketball for a long time —119 seasons to be exact, but this is the first time that any Tribe basketball program — men or women — won a conference championship and clinched a bid to the NCAA tournament. 

“How it feels hasn’t really hit me yet because we’re all still living in the moment and breathing in the moment,” said Tribe coach Erin Dickerson Davis. “That is so cool. It’s what people talked about when we had press conferences when myself and Brian Earl got here. It felt like pressure at times, but we just focused on one single game at a time. … We’re trying to stay in this moment, but at the end of the season we’ll be able to do some really cool stuff to reflect.”

The Tribe are now preparing to travel to Texas and play High Point in a 16-seed play-in game. The winner of that one gets top-seeded Texas in its house.

Getting to this point isn’t enough for coach and her players, however. They want to continue to make noise on the biggest stage despite already making history. 

“OK great, congratulations, you guys did it, but are you done now? This is a game that you can win, so are you guys going to figure out how you can come together and win one more,” Dickerson Davis said.

“The job’s not finished — this is unfinished business for me, especially,” said sophomore guard Cassidy Geddes.

“We don’t care who’s in front of us,” said Bella Nascimento, named the CAA tourney’s outstanding player. “High Point, Texas, whoever’s in front of us, we’re here to stay.”

The Tribe’s tipoff against High Point will be at 9 p.m. Thursday.