We kept fighting. The girls never gave up. That shot just didn't go. You can see we are pretty evenly matched.

We've got a strong nucleus coming back. Now hopefully some of the other young girls can step up.

The girls fought hard. We just had too many mistakes at the end. You've got to take care of the basketball.

I guess we open up with the big one. It's a tall order, but the girls will be excited about it. We've got to be ready to play, to give it our best effort, to get as many rebounds as we can at both ends of the floor.

Our strength is inside, but when those other girls are hitting shots like that it make us pretty tough to beat. You can't just stop one of us, you have to stop all of us.

Running without Valerie was certainly a factor in this race. However, I believe the girls ran pretty well. Even running without Val, our team average time was better than last year at this race. You have to be excited about that.