Two of the things that really hurt us was that slow start and our free throws. We only made 10 of 22 foul shots, including just two of 11 in the fourth quarter.

I think the hype of Senior Night hurt us. The same thing happened last year.

Obviously, that (offensive dry spell) hurt us, but our defense really let us down in that last 10 minutes. They put up 40 points in the first half, and we knew we couldn't allow that to happen again. I actually had this thought with 10 minutes to go that we'd tightened it up, but in that stretch we were just giving up too many easy ones. ... Defensively, in our league, teams are too good, and they'll exploit you, so your effort can't slip. Whether they were wearing us out, or what, it was just a very bad stretch.

Winning the first and fourth quarters usually gives you a pretty good chance to come out on top.

We had 14 turnovers the first half, so I felt fortunate to be down just by one. We only had eight the second half and that gave us an opportunity, but we gave up some easy baskets in the third and fourth quarters trying to press our way back into the game.

It was great to see Whitney come out and play as well as she did. Our goal as a team is to give her as many more wins as we can before the season is over.