We couldn't put it in the ocean in the first half. That first half killed us. We started off slow and weren't able to rebound.

In the end I got to use a lot of my young girls. We wanted to come out and fight to the end and we got to do that with our juniors, sophomores and freshmen. Classical is a real good team, and they are the best team we have played all year.

I think they all played pretty well tonight, but my two girls in the middle really rebounded well. Hamilton really played well and controlled the pace of the game for us.

We just played real good defense tonight, pressuring the ball all over the place. It's nice to get a win like this and we wanted to be in the championship game.

We were working hard on defense, trapping and pressing, and that allowed us to get a lot of fast breaks. We didn't even have to go to a set offense in the first half, because our transition game was working good for us tonight.

Coming into the tournament, we thought we could win it. That's the way we feel about every game. It was a little disappointing for our seniors. St. Mary's played a great game. We couldn't score in the second half. We couldn't get by the press.