We played with a lot of guts and heart. I like the way my team is playing right now because they are winning the tough games, and obviously that is what you want to see this time of year.

The first game is always scary. You never know what?s gonna happen.

Now everything in Villa Nation is good.

All the big players did big things. That's what make these games so great.

Chelsea does the things that don't show up on the stat sheet. She's my blue collar MVP.

She does yeoman work all the time. The kid?s 5-foot-8 but she plays 6-foot-something girls every day.

That?s pretty much what we try to do -- we try to be balanced so we?re a little harder to stop. You can?t key on Julia, because then Lindsay Corcoran?s hitting jump shots.

It?s about time we played each other.

It's kind of crazy that we have played so many times. It makes it easier to prepare because you know you have to bring your A, game if you want to win.