They're in the same conference and they've played here. Will that be an advantage? Probably. But we didn't really talk about that to the players. We don't want to give them an out. Those are things we can't do anything about. |
Virginia did a nice job closing us down in the second half. It was a hard-fought game, but I was disappointed the last four or five minutes in some of the turnovers. |
We are familiar with them, but it is a whole new season. When you lose to a team early on you want to get that game back. But I am not looking at it as revenge. We're just looking to beat them and advance. |
We certainly want to play in Boston. But right now, it's New Mexico. |
We did watch (the tapes) to see how they defended us and what we did that was successful. |
We got the exact shots we wanted. |
We got the exact shots we wanted. That last shot by Brooke was the last play we worked on in practice today. We had three open threes at the end. |
We got to the foul line a lot more. |
We have to have everyone contribute. That is what is going to make our team successful, that everyone comes to play and play their role. |
We just had a tough schedule. What we went through in our conference made us ready for whatever was going to come. |
We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball. |
We talked about it at the half, that we had too many turnovers, that we need to be smarter with the ball. Not to be cautious, but be smarter with our passes and come hard to the ball. There's going to be a lot of slapping and reaching, some of it may be called or not be called, but we had to be more aggressive with the ball. |
We watched those tapes just to see how they played us defensively. |
We were so eager to get out there and play tonight I said to the staff during one of the timeouts that we just need to settle them down and let them know that they have to use every possession they can and not give it away. |
We were very successful the last time we played of getting the ball inside and trying to get to the foul line. In this game we just didn't get to the foul line. All season when we've been successful we've done that very, very well. |