Cathy Inglese Quotations

Duke showed why they're the No. 2 team in the country the last five, six minutes. We had a few shots that weren't falling at the end of the game.

I thought that if we held them to 57 points that we would have been able to score a little more.

I know they feel they can play with those teams, and I think they really feel like they can win them. We just have to be smarter at the end.

Virginia did a nice job closing us down in the second half. It was a hard-fought game, but I was disappointed the last four or five minutes in some of the turnovers.

They're in the same conference and they've played here. Will that be an advantage? Probably. But we didn't really talk about that to the players. We don't want to give them an out. Those are things we can't do anything about.

In these games, it's not about being an underdog. It comes down to one game and who's going to execute their game plan.

I just had a feeling they might do that to make it more exciting.

We got to the foul line a lot more.

We talked about it at the half, that we had too many turnovers, that we need to be smarter with the ball. Not to be cautious, but be smarter with our passes and come hard to the ball. There's going to be a lot of slapping and reaching, some of it may be called or not be called, but we had to be more aggressive with the ball.

We just had a tough schedule. What we went through in our conference made us ready for whatever was going to come.