Said Auriemma: “I met with her on Monday, and she said, ‘I didn’t realize how hard basketball was when you don’t have the ball in your hands.’ ... I said, ‘Now you know some of the stuff your teammates were doing when you had the ball all the time [in high school],’ so now players have to learn that, and she’s starting to get after it a little more defensively. You saw that tonight. She made a couple really good defensive plays. It’s a tough adjustment for young players who are used to so much success in high school. What do you do when you don’t have the ball? I thought today she got more opportunities than she has, and that’s a function of her working harder, a little bit, today and us changing sides of the ball more to get people involved.”