Connie Allen

When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. Records mean read more

When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. Records mean nothing. It doesn't matter who's playing well, who's not playing well. It's who comes out and wants to win it. Northridge came out and wanted to win it. We just happened to want it more in the fourth quarter and we did things right in the fourth quarter.

I just told them to play better defense. We changed a couple things on our full-court press. We jumped to read more

I just told them to play better defense. We changed a couple things on our full-court press. We jumped to a 2-3 for a little bit and didn't do too bad of a job with it. They were shooting well the first half.

We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when read more

We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when some of our girls stepped up. They didn't want to lose.

They played a triangle-and-two on us. They matched up Corrie and Rachel and left our posts open. Corrie, Rachel and read more

They played a triangle-and-two on us. They matched up Corrie and Rachel and left our posts open. Corrie, Rachel and Morgan were able to get the ball to our post players and we beat them inside.

This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match read more

This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match up with them when you try to jump up into a zone. When you try to match up man-to-man, you have those back-door cuts.