That's no easy task for any team. But it was even tougher to beat a team that's as good as Stratford.

It's a lot tougher when you are seeded No. 1 and No. 2 because every person says, 'I can beat her' and goes after that person. It's tough because sometimes, they start swimming not to lose instead of swimming to win.

We stayed in that offensive muck that we had in the second quarter. The difference was that we stayed close in the first half by playing good defense and rebounding well.

We had some dumb fouls and you can't let a team shoot that many more free throws than you.

We knew that Donovan could shoot the ball well. We had that on the scouting report. But we didn't think he would shoot it that well.

Monmouth's a real good team, and they're going to come in here even more hungry because we beat them [there]. That's more fuel for their fire.