Head coach Jim Foster
How much of those early shots do you need to go in to build confidence?
"They have confidence. I'm not concerned about that part of it because we guard people. When you guard people, you're eventually going to start to make some shots. If you're not guarding people, those early shots have more impact."

"Nakeia Burks, what's this her sixth game, made a couple of shots early. She's a pretty good three-point shooter. You get through a game where Keiana Gilbert is not herself offensively, and they got double figures in every quarter. I thought they did a good job."

On ball movement.
"We have to move the ball. We've got some players that like to score off the bounce, but you have to move the defense. We've played a couple of teams that don't leave a lane and we're taking quick shots. You're not going to beat those teams. You're not going to be able to compete with those teams unless you get them to guard you."

"And the only way you get them to guard you is to keep moving the ball. Now I'm not talking about a layup. Anytime in the framework of the offense if you can get a layup, you take a layup. You don't need to be taking quick shots. You don't need to be taking shots off the bounce. That should be the last shot you take not the first."

Were you trying to do any math in your head when Harvard was developing that late run?
"No. You have to develop depth in your new players. I thought Queen Alford did a great job in that blip of time because she got open every time. We didn't defend the three-point line and you have a couple of players out there that aren't understanding because they haven't been in situations like that. There are two things you can't do late in the game and that's give wide open three's and foul them."

"Well we didn't foul them because you don't want them to score with the clock stopped. Some players were in the situation for the first time and they have to learn from that and make adjustments while they're out there. With Queen getting open, I wasn't concerned, and it was time for them to learn some things. It gives me more opportunity to show them."

How difficult is it to not collect any fouls in the first half for a shot blocker?
"You just have to be smart. I've coached a lot of shot blockers and you stop trying to block shots when you pick up early fouls in the first half. You're not a shot blocker for the rest of the half and your teammates have to do a good job of protecting you. There was about a three game stretch here with Jasmine Joyner got a quick early foul because someone got beat off the dribble and she had to rotate defensively."

"That's on her teammates and they have to improve with that, having said that Jasmine has to have that mentality of backing off playing good sound position defense. Today we switched up and had her start fronting the post so she's not playing behind."

What have the previous 14 games taught you about your team?
"That we can guard people and that when we move the ball, we're a good team. Some of the players are starting to evolve a little bit. Earlier in the season Chelsey Shumpert was probably the only player we had that could create her own shot but I think you're starting to see Queen develop in the area. I think you're starting to see Moses Johnson improve in that area."

"So just the players getting better and understanding what that means. I thought Moses had pretty good shot selection today. The one shot she missed she should have finished with her left hand and for some inexplicable reason she switched it to her right hand and took a fade away, probably something Stephen Curry was doing in the words of Mark Jackson."

Jasmine Joyner, forward, junior
Was there any talk before the game that you all had more speed than Harvard?
"We talked about reversing the ball more. If we reverse the ball, we can get layups. Our main goal was just to reverse the ball more."

Was there a focus on getting shots?
"We definitely tried to improve from the last game, like reverse the ball. We didn't reverse the ball enough against Stanford, so we tried to do that in this game against this team. We had lots of cuts when I was in the post."

On Harvard getting a lot of shots in at the end of the game.
"It was anxious in the game and playing too fast. We just have to keep playing hard. Harvard is not a quitting team, so that was a learning experience for the bench and us also that we had to keep playing hard until it was the last buzzer."

How hard is it to avoid fouls?
"It's very hard for me. Coach Foster tells me, "Just let them have the layup.' I'm so competitive it's hard to just let them score because it looks like I'm not trying or not there for my teammates. But also I have to be smart. To be there for my team, I have to be in the game. You just have to be disciplined."

Moses Johnson, guard, junior
Was the end of the game nerve-racking, especially with not being out there?
"It's a little nerve-racking when the team starts to come back, but he had them out there for a reason. I think it's always a learning experience. It was a good opportunity for us to expand, especially as a bench and letting them get that learning experience. We were pretty sure they were going to hold it to the last buzzer."

On going on a run in the second quarter.
"I think it was us moving the ball, getting out and pushing, getting runs. We had a lot of fast break layups or fast break points because we pushed the ball, got off the rebound and kept pushing it up the floor. At half court, we were able to move the ball and get good looks, so we were able to get really good baskets."

Did you feel confident tonight?
"I didn't really feel a difference. I'm in it to do whatever I can to help my team win, so when there was an open shot, I took it. If there wasn't, I tried to get my other teammates the ball."
On how the team approaches conference season.

"We approach the conference season like we approach every other game. We take one game at a time. We prepare, and we just go hard at it."