"Anitra Necole Blue" better known as "Nikki Blue" is a professional basketball player with the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association/WNBA and an assistant coach at UNLV.

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It felt like the whole season came down to that last 30 seconds. We needed to stay aggressive and not foul. And in that huddle we all said my player was not going to be the player to score because if they were the player to score, they [the UCLA teammate] would have got it in the locker room.

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It goes with the leadership role. Part of it was the media going crazy, and they wanted to name us something.

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It's all we talked about all week, how much we wanted to win. I'm so glad we did.

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We haven't talked about it all. What we've talked about is this is one game. Coach has told us to focus on this game, just this game.

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She's been teaching me how to be a young lady, on and off the court. I have had a great senior season. The program is in good hands.

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I don't think our team hit a wall the entire night. We were still aggressive, sometimes we were too aggressive. We battled to the end.

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I've never cut down a net before! This means the world to me.

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Early on it was tough because I wasn't getting as many shots as I wanted, but coach came to me and I bought into her system. In other years I needed to score. This year if I don't score one point and we still have a chance to win ... that's OK with me. Maybe four years ago I couldn't have said that.

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There's nothing frustrating about this for me. We had a great season and I know the program is in good hands.

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