Having a new coach was hard adjusting to at the beginning. But after Christmas, we've jelled a lot more. We started playing together more as a team. We started to get used to what the coach's style was compared to the other years.

We feel we can be ranked higher than what we are. Our goal wasn't to be ranked at the beginning of the year, it was to win the Big Ten championship. We think we can be up there with the best of them. We feel we have just as much talent as anybody in the country.

From the beginning, we knew we could do this. The biggest part was believing in ourselves.

We think that beginning with Christmas 2006, this will really take off.

No. I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her.

We had our chances in the beginning, we didn't put them in. It was poor marking on us on the corner kick, and they took advantage of it.