I challenged our girls at the half. I told them we've worked too hard to let it slip out of our hands now.

These are the kinds of games our girls are capable of. They're never going to give up.

They happened to catch us on the wrong night. We lost last night, and that gave us some fire. We came out and really attacked on both ends.

This whole tournament, we've taken everyone's best shot. We just had to keep battling through that.

We'd get up six or seven, and they would come right back and cut it to three. They hit three-pointers. They hit free throws. They're just tough to stop.

First-round games are some of the toughest to play. But we have to remember this and learn from it.