Quotes by Emily Westerberg

“We decided to be a package deal our junior year in high school. We told (college) coaches it was the both of us or none of us. Its been an amazing experience that I wouldnt take back.”

“I think its about experience when you go on the road. You have to make sure you play hard every minute on the road, and thats something that we learned as a team that we werent doing.”

“We do rotate people in a lot, but everybody knows how hard they have to play. That is an advantage we have with our style of defense. We wanted to make sure we went at them for 40 minutes.”

“Were just comfortable in our gym. This is where you practice 90 percent of the time, and its a routine -- we get to sleep in our own beds. We never take for granted being at home.”

“Everyone was jacked up. Everybody was ready to give a championship mentality.”

“We just didnt play well [at USC]. We shot ourselves in the foot, and tonight we helped each other out.”

“We are treating this like a road game. We are trying to prepare ourselves, obviously, for a different court and different fans.”

“Its great to have experience and knowing whats going to happen.”

“We looked tired out there. They were boxing us out so we couldnt get second looks, which is what we usually do really good with our offense.”