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«You just have to play smart defense. I think [Sunday] night really showed that she's capable of dominating. You just have to play smart defense and stay out of early foul trouble. You have to make sure you box her out and know where she is at all times.»

«There's a lot of stuff going on.»

«I think the ACC is really making a statement for women's basketball, not just UNC and Duke. Usually it's the SEC that's getting all the love because they have Tennessee and they have national championships. The ACC's creeping up here.»

«I think Ali's going to have to play real big in this game coming off the bench. You should always make sure you come off the bench with a lot of aggression. In past games she's been amazing. She's always the poster child in blocking shots, so I definitely think that's going to be a big thing.»

«We worked so hard on our defense. As the season went on, we knew our defense would be what would win us games late in the season.»

«We have had to work on our defense so much this season, because we are such an offense-minded team. As the season went on, we realized that that work on our defense was really going to help us. It did tonight.»

«We worked so hard throughout the season on our defense because we were so offensive minded in the beginning of the year. As the season went on, we knew defense would help us win games.»

«We wanted to force her to curl off screens. That way, Lindsey [Harding] could help off, and I think everyone who had her just played their best defense. It's hard to shut down someone who scores 23 points a game, and we did a phenomenal job.»

«I love guarding the best post players; I take pride in it. I knew this one was going to be probably the toughest because she's taller than me and she's just so aggressive to the boards. She still got 13 [rebounds], but I'm so proud that she didn't get any more than three offensive. That says a lot for our post group. I came out guarding her, and everyone else was boxing her out, as well. She just seemed frustrated, like she's not used to that. And I'm just so happy that we could accomplish something like that.»

«We just really had to come back and kind of bring everything back and just collect and just kind of reflect on what we could have done better and how we were going to change it. I think that two-week span where we didn't play, we really just concentrated on how we're going to beat any team that we would face in this tournament.»