They always say the sign of a good team is winning ugly. The last two games, we've won pretty ugly.

It wasn't pretty, but winning ugly is better than losing.

Becker made the all-tourney team. She had two pretty good games. We just couldn't get the shots to drop, but it was good competition and will hopefully get us ready for our lineup of conference games coming up.

We've been winning ugly. We're fortunate to be 2-0. A bad break here or there and we could easily be 0-2. That's why we're not getting too excited about our record or the ranking. We just need to get better or we won't be talking about where we're at in the rankings for very long.

Winning seven games last year was pretty big for us, and we made major improvements. Now we hope to keep building on that. I think people will be really surprised at how well we do this year. We have big goals.

That's something we haven't found a way to do this year - win ugly games. This was an ugly one, but it was a good one.