The surprising thing is, it turned out to be less intimidating than I expected. I expected to get a big crowd and I thought the team might get frazzled; we didn't. I expected Stanford to come out and just dominate us; they didn't. As far as pressure goes, it was less than I expected.

It'll be a great opportunity to be able to share the court with future Olympians. It's a great team, and a packed gym, you really can't ask for much more.

It's a tough transition going from two championship seasons to a losing season, but it just shows we have a lot more to prove.

I thought what she had to say was inspiring.

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.