I felt we had a good effort as a team tonight. Our goal when we got the lead late was to keep running our offense and start to take some time off the clock.

That helps a lot. Kita's been in a lot of huge games. So has Lauren Darnell. But for the rest of the players, this is pretty new.

There isn't much that isn't special about Kita.

They are a solid team and it will a much better effort than what we've been giving to beat them.

They played their hearts out. Johnson just made a few more plays than we did at the end. It was a tremendous game between two great teams.

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Erin played a heck of a game and stepped up when we needed her. We just couldn't get enough going on offense as a team , though.

(East Hall) is so strong it's hard to contain them. But I thought we did a much better job in the second half.

Even Johnson doesn't defend like that. They're just so quick and they can defend off the dribble so well. They used their speed and got in our faces.

We did a nice job of holding down their two guards out front but then we didn't execute very well in the fourth quarter and they took over the game. We can't allow that to happen again. It's going to be a tough assignment but this is the same road that Johnson took to the Final Four last year and we would like to duplicate that.