It was a very disappointing loss. We didn't do what we needed to do down the stretch for us to win the basketball game. Creighton did.

There's no question that Cassie is our backbone. She knows what we need.

Teams are going to bring their best effort and try to give us our first loss. We can't get complacent being 4-0. We haven't accomplished our goal.

The loss of this base would have devastated Connecticut.

You have to think of the loss of a guy and what that means to his teammates and family, ... Your season hasn't even started yet, and you're dealing with this (tragedy). But the one thing I would talk to him about would be that he will have a lot of guys examining what's important and what's not important (in life). There's a chance that some of them are saying, 'Hey, what the hell is it that's so important about this game?'

I'm at a loss for words right now. I've never had one hurt like this, not when you're as close as we were.