She’s a great shooter. We tried to get her shots and she took advantage.

We are familiar with them, but it is a whole new season. When you lose to a team early on you want to get that game back. But I am not looking at it as...

Virginia did a nice job closing us down in the second half. It was a hard-fought game, but I was disappointed the last four or five minutes in some of the turnovers.

That’s why she’s a great player. She comes in at the end of games and does what’s necessary.

I said, ‘Lets be patient, lets tweak a few things,’ and I think we did and that’s why we’ve been successful.

She a very gutsy kid and has great range to get her shots off.

The players were confident coming into today’s game. They continued to plug along.

We just had a tough schedule. What we went through in our conference made us ready for whatever was going to come.

I feel rejuvenated. We showed what kind of team we are.

They’re in the same conference and they’ve played here. Will that be an advantage? Probably. But we didn’t really talk about that to the players. We don’t want to give them an out. Those are...

She can shoot. Sarah likes to distribute the ball and get other people to do. But when she’s open, she can drive and has the pull up ability. I’m glad she got to show that...

Our players think they can play with anyone, I mean, you look at some of our losses to the No. 6 team [Maryland] and the No. 2 team [Duke] in the country, we were playing...

Our players are looking forward to a fresh start. We didn’t finish the regular season the way we would have liked, but after 10 days off we’re ready to play other teams instead of ourselves.

We did watch (the tapes) to see how they defended us and what we did that was successful.

I had a feeling (the NCAA) would put us against a Big East team.

I think it will become more common because players are getting more athletic. I think you’re seeing strength and conditioning stressed more. Will it be as common as the men’s game? No. But it will...

It’s hard not to focus on Jess because you’ve got to neutralize her as best you can. At the same time, they’ve got good guard play. You can’t take away everything, so hopefully you take...

I’ve been looking at film all this afternoon and will look at more on the plane (last night). We’ll think of a game plan to handle her.

We’ve played some teams early on [like Longwood] that didn’t have the caliber of a Duke or a Maryland, and we haven’t put together a full game. The motivation was to play as many people...

We watched those tapes just to see how they played us defensively.

I was pleased overall with the first 35 minutes of the game and holding Duke to 20 points for [the first] half. The last seven minutes of the game, we gave it to them and...

We got the exact shots we wanted.

When we weren’t turning the ball over, we were doing a nice job of spreading the floor.

We have to have everyone contribute. That is what is going to make our team successful, that everyone comes to play and play their role.

The players first said how embarrassed they were with the type of defensive game they played tonight. Our defense keeps us in games and wins us ball games, keeps us close. We just got out...

We were so eager to get out there and play tonight I said to the staff during one of the timeouts that we just need to settle them down and let them know that they...

She came in here on a mission and took that team on her shoulders. She had a hunger to score.

Megan is really efficient. She has a command for the game. She directs her team. She brings a really great calmness to her teammates and she also has the ability to score. A scoring point...

That’s all we heard is we lost five in a row. All we worked on was our execution on defense.

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

I’m extremely pleased with the victory. I think it showed the kind of team we are. We don’t have just one or two players putting up points.

What number was she? No, I’m kidding. She’s outstanding. I don’t know if that was the best game of her career or not, but I think she had that hunger to get the basket and...

Our guys in practice can’t even duplicate what they do because they’re athletic, they’re quicker. You see an opening, it’s there, and you’ve got to thread the needle because they do a really good job...

Aja did what she does well, shooting the ball and cutting to the basket.

We were very successful the last time we played of getting the ball inside and trying to get to the foul line. In this game we just didn’t get to the foul line. All season...

Duke showed why they’re the No. 2 team in the country the last five, six minutes. We had a few shots that weren’t falling at the end of the game.

We got the exact shots we wanted. That last shot by Brooke was the last play we worked on in practice today. We had three open threes at the end.

We got to the foul line a lot more.

I just had a feeling they might do that to make it more exciting.

We certainly want to play in Boston. But right now, it’s New Mexico.

We talked about it at the half, that we had too many turnovers, that we need to be smarter with the ball. Not to be cautious, but be smarter with our passes and come hard...

She is a mature kid. I look at her and say hey, here’s a kid who can handle that pressure so I can probably put her at the foul line when the game is on...

It was a great win. Our seniors wanted to continue this tradition of going to the Sweet 16 and it showed out there on the court.

I haven’t been there [to Albuquerque] but I know it’s going to be a little bit warmer.

I thought that if we held them to 57 points that we would have been able to score a little more.

It was nice to get the home win versus Virginia, and now our first ACC road game, it gives us confidence to get back into the race and continue on our roll.

In these games, it’s not about being an underdog. It comes down to one game and who’s going to execute their game plan.

I know they feel they can play with those teams, and I think they really feel like they can win them. We just have to be smarter at the end.