That was crucial for us and that was a crucial shot for them to miss. It's a hustle play, a heady play. She knew what was on the line, she had to hustle to get back and she did.

Most of my kids have been up there before. Even if they didn't play, they've experienced that atmosphere. Both teams will have jitters. Most of the time it comes down to which team gets over them first.

Other than a long, 12-play drive, that was exactly what we needed. That gave us all the momentum and our defense seemed to feed off of it. That play changed the whole course of the game.

I think it's his size, in one word. Long arms. When teams prepare to play us, they have to take into consideration how they're going to attack us because of the big kid in middle of the floor. He poses problems on blocking shots and changing kids' decision-making about taking the ball to the basket.

We had to play our best to beat Colgate. When we did not play our best, Colgate made us pay. We learned that we need to play the full 60 minutes. But we have played in tense games all year, so I feel that our players have the necessary experience.

They hit us with everything in the first 15-20 minutes. They turned up to play, we didn't.