Coach Mulkey-Robertson, on what last year's loss means now: "You want me to tell you what I learned from losing? I hate it. That's what I learned. You learn you don't ever want to do it again."

Sophia Young: "It just gives kids an opportunity to see they don't have to go to UConn or Tennessee to be good or to end up in the Final Four."

Blackmon on Roehrig and Shimek: "They look pretty physical. Roehrig is a big, wide body, and Shimek is a pretty physical player. We've got to see what their strengths are and guard them toward their weaknesses."

McCallie on recruiting: "When you talk about these text messages, you talk about e-mail. You talk about these needy kids that need to be called all the time. I'm not into it. I think it's superficial. I'm hoping that we can be so good one day that they could just know us by watching us be successful and say, 'I want to go there,' and then come visit."

Roehrig on her roommate: "It was kind of funny -- we would just be laying there and I'd say, 'Kristin, we're going to be playing for the national championship in two days!'. I probably said it about 20 times, and she kept saying, 'I know, Kelli, I know!'"

Niemann on going to the gym: "I was always in there."

Bowen: "This year, we knew that we could get here. Every kid dreams of this, and it only comes once in a lifetime."