I didn't see Angela until her second-to-last high school basketball game. I didn't know much about her until my student assistant at the time, Mandy Sterling, told me I had to see her play. Scott Eaton (NKU associate athletic director) had kids at Highlands, and he told me about her too. So I figured I needed to head over there to see her play, and I liked what I saw. |
I didn't think they could get much better when they resumed the game. |
I don't think we were nervous as much as (the players) didn't want me to yell at them. Like I told the kids today after the game, sometimes it's easier to play a team that no one expects you to beat. (Missouri-St. Louis) had everything to gain and nothing to lose. Their kids played so hard and were well-coached. |
I think you have to have an inside-out attack. But early on, we were maybe not getting the ball inside. |
I thought Michigan Tech played great. They were fired up and ready to go. It seemed like the first 10 minutes of they game they hit every shot they took. I was hoping they would cool off. Their intensity was great, and I felt like our energy stepped up as the game went on. It's the NCAA tournament, and people are going to come ready to play. |
I thought that Katie Butler in the first half did a heck of a job in the post. |
I told them that the road to the GLVC title goes through Quincy. They're the defending champions until someone beats them. |
In many ways, Angela is still learning the game, so those freshman minutes really helped her. I think she chose the right sport because she has a great basketball body, and she's strong and physical. We expect so much from her now, and she's really just now starting to play like we know she can. |
Katie Butler is having a great second half of the year. And defensively, she is so much better than she was earlier in the year. She's not afraid to shoot the ball, and she is a very good player off the bench. She's as important to our team as anyone. |
She's been kind of the heir apparent, I think, ever since she got here freshman year. |
The turnovers just killed us. |
We ask Healy to do so much, and I thought she just did really a good job. She's never satisfied, and I'm always on her. She had a great game. She's one of those kids, for us, that is really coming into her own at a time when we really need her. |
We could not make an outside shot, and they were daring us to shoot from the outside. You make a zone look really good if you can't buy an outside shot, and there was not a lot inside because they dared us to shoot from the peri- meter. We had some open shots, but they would not fall. |
We limited SIUE to just one shot on the defensive end for the most part, and I thought we did a very good job of keeping them off the boards. I told our players we needed to keep SIUE from getting offensive rebounds, and we did that. |
We've been living and dying with our defense and trying to get some shots. Our defense has got to be there for us, and it was really good today. |