This will challenge our maturity and how focused we come out as a team. It's going to be an exciting one and I think it will challenge us to see if we're mature enough to put that loss behind us and win as a team.

The bottom line with him is he's ready. I've been impressed by his maturity. We know with the competition we are playing, he's going to have to be mentally ready to play, but we think he can handle it as an 18-year-old.

If we let (being) the top seed go to our heads and we come out really cocky, other teams that really come after us will eventually beat us. If we go in there and play hard like we do every game, we'll come out on top.

It was very, very difficult. They have an All-American candidate (Crystal Langhorne). And if she steps off the court, they have another big girl coming in and picking up the slack.

That loss was on our minds, but you can't let it carry over into the next game because then we won't be able to focus on what's in front of us. We're going to have to work to get our spirit back. It kind of fell off a little bit, but I'm pretty sure it'll be coming back real soon.

We had to come out and grind out a win to get back into that winning mentality. We finally woke up and realized it's not going to be easy. We're going to have to fight for everything we want.