In the second half we got to every loose ball. Our girls played harder than I've ever seen them play. My job is to figure how to motivate them to play like that from the start. If we can do that, we can be a special team.

We possessed the ball a lot longer than Trenton did. We were very patient. I told the girls they could only take shots they were sure they could make. They were very patient and very careful with the ball.

Playing all the girls we play ... sometimes we might take our lumps here and there early in the game, but late in the game, we always feel like we're going to have the fresher legs and fresher bodies. That's why they call it a team sport, because everybody contributes.

The girls were ready to play. This is the third time we've played Freeman.

We've seen the girls play here. We can only imagine what our crowd will be like.

They played all-around solid games ? all of them played roughly half the game and they did very well.