Amanda really helped us with the serving. She has started serving a lot better in practice and that's why we put her in.

We give away way too many points. We have such good blocking that there's a good chance that even if we give them a free ball and an easy bump-set-spike, we have a good chance at a block kill just because of our height.

It was extremely frustrating. But it did give us a chance to practice.

We run a lot in practice so we don't get tired. We were in better condition and I think that made a difference as the game went on.

We learned a lot at the Pac-10 tournament. If we implement the changes we introduced at practice this week, particularly on defense, we should be in pretty good shape.

It's really low keyed. It's not Showtime. California does its practice at midnight. You've got this big buildup and then you have another couple of weeks before a game.