We are approaching the defensive end of the court as if that's our home. That's where we're going to win and lose ballgames.

This weekend was the first time I walked away from this group feeling excited about what we were doing defensively.

Morehead is probably the best offensive team we've seen so far, bar none. They're eight or nine deep, they can all shoot it from three, their center can step out from 17 feet, so it was the right time to turn it up a notch defensively.

It was a very, very clear statement. The kids came out with an agenda. I thought the first half was solid. I thought we allowed them to hang around a little bit. We came up empty on a couple of possessions that we normally execute on, but they came out in the second half riled up in the locker room.

The blocked shot, right now, is a result of ball pressure. That person on the basketball knowing that they can apply as much pressure as possible to that ball. They're not afraid of getting beat, because they trust the four people behind them.

Statistically, we had a good first half, but Rebecca Haynes made so many plays in that half. She was involved with every single offensive play that we had and she single-handedly controlled the defensive glass.