I wanted to convince them there's a better way to do stuff, and they've been great about it.

They will chuck the threes and come at you.

We only scored 30 points. It was sloppy. If you would have told me that's what was going to happen, I would have bet you a million bucks we were going to lose.

A lot of the little bickering things that I hear with other teams, the jealousies, I can always bring it back to, hey, where's your relationship with the Lord? We just don't have the little catty things that go on.

We're still trying to build that continuity. But there are times when I think we're better than last year.

She was instrumental in breaking their full-court pressure. It was a rugged game and a major defensive battle.

I wasn't concerned that they wouldn't come out ready. The only concern I had, and it's kind of like the feeling I have now, I loved the victory, but it's not the feeling I had Monday night against Valley Christian. That was an emotional game, that was a war.

Big schools don't necessarily lead to scholarships. It's more important to have a good reputation, and it's well known that we have a team that can compete.

In the regular season, we hardly faced anybody that pressed us. Valley Christian did it to us the first game of the year. I told the girls in the first quarter we had to weather that storm.