When we recruit someone who is going to be a junior, we're going to recruit someone who is going to come in and play.

There is a great hunger within the program for earning respect from the campus and community and conference. When you look at any team, any program, the difference between good and great is usually between the ears. We need confidence. But you also have to prepare for the success you're going to have. You have to act like a winner. You have to walk like a winner. You have to dress like a winner. You have to carry yourself like a winner. I'm a pretty straight shooter. You don't have to wonder what my thought process is.

I am the lone representative from the Mountain West that votes for the women's top 25 teams and I have been voting for Wyoming. The week they beat BYU on the road and New Mexico at home is the best week that any team in the MWC has had this year.

We really fought and scraped and finished the first half well, which we hadn't done of late. But the first few minutes of the second half – they were just too much.

What stood out more than anything was she worked as hard as she possibly could every possession, every minute of the game. I call her a wild card because she can do different things in different games. The way she carried herself, we thought she was dynamite.

We really felt coming in that having competition within our team would help make everybody play harder, ... It looks like a lot, but that's our goal. And just ask Coach Fisher – you get a sprained ankle, you get a sore throat. More than anything, we want to protect ourselves for the inevitable things that you hope won't occur but do.