I know they feel they can play with those teams, and I think they really feel like they can win them. We just have to be smarter at the end.

326

Aja did what she does well, shooting the ball and cutting to the basket.

257

Our players think they can play with anyone, I mean, you look at some of our losses to the No. 6 team [Maryland] and the No. 2 team [Duke] in the country, we were playing very well.

233

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

163

We got to the foul line a lot more.

156

The players were confident coming into today's game. They continued to plug along.

129

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.

117

Duke showed why they're the No. 2 team in the country the last five, six minutes. We had a few shots that weren't falling at the end of the game.

110

I was pleased overall with the first 35 minutes of the game and holding Duke to 20 points for [the first] half. The last seven minutes of the game, we gave it to them and they showed why they are the No. 2 team in the nation.

105