We are very, very close to being right at the top. What we can?t have happen is to hang our heads and feel sorry for ourselves because tough times don?t last, tough teams do. |
We didn't take care of the ball, and we didn't execute against the zone and there was a lid on the basket. I thought early on we were dribbling right into them and trying to shoot over them, and that makes it a little bit easier to block. |
We hate it because they're playing and we can't be there. Obviously we want to be in the stands and watch the best of the best right now. We'll still be there. They're just shortening the number of days we can come out. |
We just wanted to take a little pressure off Kerri. We wanted her to be a spark for us off the bench. |
We knew Virginia was 0-2 in conference play. We knew they had beat us the last two times that we'd played, and I think we definitely saw which team was hungrier, which team played harder and which team deserved to win this game. They handed it to us. |
We needed to be more aggressive on the defensive end and then we needed to attack offensively. We needed to be the aggressors, not Wake Forest. ? That was key. |
We needed to get a win, you've got to take care of your home court and we've slipped up some. Each one is so precious. We have to stay focused, no mental breakdowns. |
We talked about (turnovers) before we headed down here. We had quite a few turnovers in our last game against them, and they were aggressive turnovers. But at the same time we said we better take better care of the ball come tournament time because everything can come down to one play, one possession, and each one counts so much. |
We talked about having to pick up our intensity on defense in order to make a difference in that game. I don?t think we really did that until the 14-minute mark in that second half, and when we did, that?s when we were able to go on a big run. |
We were a step behind on defense and it seemed like they were a step ahead on defense. |
We were flat, we didn't play well. We got into a situation where shots weren't falling for us, and we got frustrated. |
We'd love to give the best players in the state a chance to play at home. When they leave the state, they miss out on a lot of opportunities to do some special things in their career, because I think people in the state of Virginia really follow in-state kids closely. |
We've got to understand that if it's not a foul or being called a foul, then we need to be making one more pass, and that goes back to being smart. |
What I like about this group is that they didn't dwell on the past. They looked to the future and tried to see how they could do the same thing that Duke did to us to the next team on our schedule. |
What we cannot have happen is for us to hang our heads and feel sorry for ourselves. Tough times don't last; tough teams do. Our team made a step tonight against the No. 6 team in the country, and we could have very easily won this game. |