I just say my hat's off to our fans. But I did see a lot of them leaving early. |
I love the fact that we show the guts and grit of just getting down and giving all we can give — given our situation without our leading scorer, our kids not feeling real well and all that. |
I saw her look down. She told me later in the hospital that it felt like a ball had come in on the timeout, somehow, and hit her in the chest. It was always a question in her mind, what does it feel like when it goes off. |
I tell the team we have to pack our defense and rebounding for road trips. Those are things you have to do well to win away from home. |
I think everybody in basketball knows that about 70 percent of the rebounds go opposite of from where you shoot it. So we just figure if you get more players on the opposite side, we've got a chance mathematically to grab a lot more boards. |
I think that it was just like Kayla [Burt] said: You felt like the crowd lifted us up. It was amazing energy -- it was just amazing energy -- and at the same time the focus was there in the timeouts. This is what we need to do. We were checking off the fast breaks and everything else. |
I think the race for the Pac-10 will come down to the last week. We have to control what we can control, and today we didn't do that. It's a tough one to swallow. |
I think USC was our worst Pac-10 outing of the year. I think some of that had to do with USC, no doubt about it. But a lot of it had to do with us. |
I think we're in. I think we've done enough. I would hope five or six [Pac-10 teams] are in. |
I thought the team came out with tremendous energy today. We did it with spirited defense and got up on the boards and got into our running game. That's how we want to play. It was a lot of fun out there. |
I'm just so proud and happy. This is why we play the preseason we play. We had success in the preseason and these guys came ready to play. Focus has been awesome, hats off to the seniors; the whole team deserves this -- but especially the seniors. This is a great win, and they all played like it too. |
I'm very, very proud of the team and the program. It's great to be back in the big dance. |
It just seemed like we weren't fighting hard, we were getting frustrated at how well Oregon was doing and not converting it into our energy. We made some adjustments defensively and we just kept saying if we go out there and fight hard and leave it on the court we'll be happy. |
It seems they're experienced kids now. |
It was a great win. I thought the team came out with tremendous energy today. |