What's nice is we have a lot of players who can play center midfield.

I've seen the scores from this first weekend so I think we can compete. We're pretty resilient.

Overall we've improved in ball possession which is one of the areas we wanted to work at.

I am excited about getting to play each of the Iowa teams - Drake, Iowa and Northern Iowa - this year.

We are not looking at dealing with the height to stop them from developing their play but rather the formula.

We certainly didn't play our best, but there were some bright spots. We are breaking in a new setter and things went pretty well in that area.