Looking at the black religious experience, globally Howard had the best experience over all, so I ended up going back.

It was a good experience for me. Weed isn't a good thing to start off with when you are young. Eighty percent of [8th graders] don't drink. I will be one of the eighty percent.

They will squash you like a bug if you don't show up and play.

They're playing much better now. We're trying to get in that top four and get that bye, so we really have to keep our composure and play as hard as we can to achieve our goal.

It's a team loss, but I blame myself, too, today. We win as a team and we lose as a team, and this loss was very disappointing. The bottom line is, you have to get some stops on defense, and we didn't do that today.

It's big from the standpoint of it gives us an opportunity to showcase our arena and to play at home. It's not guaranteeing you're going to win it. You've got to play basketball. But it's exciting for our players and our fans.

I think it gives the northern extent of this conference hope that maybe someday they can host the tournament, too, since we don't use a neutral site like the men do.

Obviously, we are very disappointed for Amanda and our team. She has been such an important part of our program. We will continue to compete and play as hard as possible and reach the goals that we have set for this season.

We'll get those results, brace her, get her into physical therapy and see if she'll be able to play in the tournament.

It's not the end of the world. There's a long way to go yet. We played well today. We couldn't limit their athleticism. They hurt us on the boards. They're bigger than us and more athletic than us, and we weren't able to delete that from their game. And we lost our composure at times.