15 Quotes by Jennifer Rizzotti

She willed us not just to win, but to play like this. Erika has meant everything to this team all weekend and all season long.

She's always done it in the shadows. She's never tried to be the star, the leading scorer, the MVP. She's never tried to be that. She does it because of how good she is.

I felt like our defensive focus and intensity for 40 minutes was the best it's been all year. I'm excited about our team's energy overall.

I think it's a huge advantage because our comfort level is good at home. We play in front of our own crowd so the excitement level is there. The kids' families are all here so it's just a comfortable place, they don't need any added any motivation when their at home.

We have to really schedule tougher in our non-conference and we have to win games that we're not 'supposed' to win. And then we've got to win our league.

We can't win the basketball game without Erika in the game.

We got to here because of our defense. Today we just kept going at them with 3-pointers and going into the post and it was just too much for them. Although our defense was solid again, this was definitely an offensive day.

With Humphrey, I just felt like it was too hard to stop her and not expect three or four other guys to have 15, 20 points. So our game plan, to be honest, was to let her get 20-something points. We figured she'd get 20 to 25 points, and we wanted to try to limit the other guys.

This year and last year the team has really responded to her and she learned how to handle that responsibility. She's gone from shying away from that and sometimes crumbling under that pressure to learning how to deal with it and make us better for it.