10 Quotes by Lisa Willis

When we do our pre-game talk, we talk about certain people not liking pressure. But it seems like none of their players likes pressure. We tried to jump on that, totally, because that got our defense going. And we knew that if we kept pounding them and pounding them ? not just stealing the ball but just getting stops ? that would frustrate them.

She's very clutch. She hits the shot you need, gets the defensive stop you need, gets the rebound you need.

Bars were really fun tonight because as a team we are working harder in practice. We are feeling stronger, and have more confidence in ourselves as we compete. We need to improve a little more every time and we will be right where we need to be.

I think we did really well. We struggled a lot this year with keeping the energy up for every event and I think we did a lot better at it. We got the energy all the way to the floor (the last event) and I'm really pleased with that.

I was in a daze the whole second half. Until I looked at the stat sheet, I didn't know what I did. I just tried to do whatever it took to get the job done. We just had to pick it up. We did not want to go home tonight.

We had to pick it up (in the second half). We did not want to go home tonight.

We said since Stanford, there's not one post player that can kill us to the point where it will win the game for them. Yes, (Butler) had a good night, but we still came out with the victory.

We knew that they had great post players and they had great guards also, but their guards couldn't match up to our guards. It seemed like none of them liked pressure so we jumped on that. We knew that if we kept pounding, that would frustrate the team.

We knew that they had great post players and good guards. But we felt that their guards could not match up with our guards. One, we have more experience, and that alone gave us the upper hand. We wanted to come out and help the post players the best way we could.