“We started the season with high expectations but we couldn’t win during the first five games which was pretty disappointing for us. Your motivation can sometimes go down after a bad string of games like that, but we always believed in ourselves and our coaches did too. I think even though we lost a few games in the beginning, that really helped us come closer and create good team bonds. The team chemistry was one of the biggest reasons why we won last year. We were like a family. After those first five games we still weren’t very consistent with the wins, but late in the season something changed and we started winning game by game. We went into the playoffs with a feeling that we were invincible and we finally got that winning mentality after a while. I think it was good that we didn’t succeed in those first five games because my first season at UMD we were unbeaten for the first ten games, but then I think we became too cocky, and we thought that it would continue like that into the ...