More reaction:

Taurasi: "When you can play in your own state for four games and when your fans are able to come and watch you play, it's definitely an advantage for us."

Coach Summitt on having so many familiar teams in her region: "When you play this kind of schedule, you pretty much set yourself up for something similar to this.''

UNC Coach Hatchell on getting shipped to South Bend to meet Notre Dame: "It's the same as last year. That is the way it is, and we have to deal with it."

Miami coach Ferne Labati: "We really were thinking we could be a sixth seed or a seventh seed. To be a No. 5 seed, it just says so much for them respecting what we did during the year."

West Virginia coach Mike Carey on making it in off the bubble: "I was happy for about five seconds. And then I started to think about Ohio State.''

Southern coach Sandy Pugh on playing Texas at Texas: "We'll just go in and play hard. We don't have anything to lose."

K State coach Patterson on playing Minnesota at Minnesota: "Those are things you don't have any control over."

ASU coach Turner Thorne on east coast bias: "The numbers are that two-thirds of the committee and schools are east of the Mississippi, and I do think you see that reflected in the bracket year in and year out."