The level of competition is very high. We play the best teams in the country.

I'm not happy at all. I'm still thinking about those games against USC, UCLA and Stanford. For 30 seconds after the match I was satisfied. After this interview, I'm back to work.

The last three days of training have been unbelievable days of progress. For about 40 seconds out there in today's practice, I just stopped and said, 'Hey, that was world class. That was at a national team level.' So I mean, it was great.

They haven't won anything yet, know what I mean? We've won games, right, but to be in position to go to the national championship, I keep telling them that's what it's all about. You play the game for the big games and the big moments.

They're not measuring their fingers for rings yet, let's put it that way. They have me in check, and believe me, I have them in check.

They're a team in crisis. Their coach left before the season started, so maybe in a year or two they'll come back stronger.

They're very confident. We've had professional preparation and haven't missed a thing.

At that point in time in February, we weren't good enough. We are now. At least in my opinion we are.

We're hungry and we're confident. Walking down the streets right now I can stop four kids and ask them, 'Do you want to win?' and, yeah, they'll want to win. But they don't know how to win. The Cal girls wanted to win big, but they didn't put in the work. Now they are putting in the work. Our confidence is up, and it's all about one word now-preparation.

We learned that we can compete at a high level. But we can never take our eyes off the prize and have a mental lapse for two, three minutes.