Out of the shoot, we fell prey to a team that was fired up. When I watched them lose to Temple the other night, I knew we were in trouble. |
She made all the plays late and to her credit she's going to be a good one for them as she continues to play for them the way she played tonight. |
She's battled at times this year just because she's the focus of attention defensively. And we simply haven't done a good job of getting her the ball. I think at times that has frustrated her. |
She's the focal point. She draws a lot of attention. But she needs to look to herself as a focal point. Her numbers are starting to come back up. |
Sometimes when you feel a little embarrassed you respond better. This is a brutal stretch (Rutgers, at DePaul, Connecticut, Marquette, at Pittsburgh). It's kind of like a death march. We're more familiar with DePaul, but we have to find a way to come back. DePaul doesn't have the mystique like Rutgers. I think we came into Rutgers with a little fear. |
The same thing happened last week at Pittsburgh. I told them, 'If we're going to be good in this league, then you got her, you got her, you got her and you need to get your girl stopped.' We had a little bit more of that in the last 10 minutes, and as simple as it sounds, that was a difference-maker for us. |
There's just a not a lot of bad stuff on our resume right now. But you never want to give the NCAA (selection) committee any ammunition if they want to leave you out. |
They have a great atmosphere there. The fans are very exuberant; they?re right on top of you. It?s very loud there. They have a great home-court advantage. |
They have every reason to maybe not have as much confidence in themselves. But miraculously, when I let them play through a missed shot here and there, they stay confident. That's why they're out there on the floor. |
They just set an incredible pace, and want to blow you out in the first five minutes. If you?re not ready to run back in transition, you?re not ready for them to shoot the ball early, and they?re hot, you can find yourself in a hole really, really fast. I think you have to go in there knowing that they have a great home-court advantage, and I think you have to go in there knowing that the game is going to be intense. |
They're a veteran team that's well-coached. They like to pound the ball inside, but they're also a good shooting team from the perimeter, so they protect their inside game. |
They've been hearing about and reading about being in the Big East, and now here we are. We're in the Big East tournament and I think they're anxious to see what the big time is about. |
This is a great opportunity for us. We want to see if we can play with them. We want to see if we've improved. |
This was kind of a hard one to take. I don't think we saw it coming. I thought we were ready to play. |
We called four different plays and didn't score on any of them. I think that was it. We had hit the wall at that point. |