We try to get fast with our hands instead of fast with our feet, and that gets us in foul trouble. Then we're trying to defend them with all guards out there, it just wasn't going to work. I take full responsibility for this loss. I did not do a good job of preparing the girls for this game and the defense that we needed to run.

Oh yeah. We got back to reality real quick.

That's a huge factor. All of a sudden they are loud and chanting and I think that helped a lot with keeping T-Town uncomfortable.

We were timid, tentative. And against T-Town, that spells trouble. We were actually pretty fortunate that we were as close as we were.

There were only one or two games where a coach didn't show up, and those were games I told them not to come to. I thought she did a real good job of handling it, because most of the games where there were a lot of coaches there, she played really well.

From a size standpoint, they're probably a little bit bigger. I don't think they have the depth, or experience at guard that T-Town was able to put up against us. The big thing is difference in style of play. They like to play slow, and they don't like to go to their bench at all. It comes down to whoever can control the tempo.

That's when we seemed to get focused, whenever that happens. Our kids have been in some tough, close games, and we realized if we get the ball in the right people's hands, we're going to make free throws down the stretch, and that's what we did.

When you don't have to shoot anything from more than three or four feet, you better win. We couldn't stop them from the beginning and when we got in foul trouble, it was worse.

I couldn't have scripted the (T-Town) game any better to get us prepared for the game (tonight). The kids needed to see first hand how poorly they could play in the postseason. If we don't go out and play to our strengths, against big physical teams, were mediocre at best.