(Hughes) had a pretty solid career. I'm most happy about her growth and development as a human being. She is really taking on a leadership role. |
I really did expect it. I knew she was very, very talented, but I just didn't know she would do as well as she did so early. She turned out to be a big factor for us as a freshman. |
I think her leadership qualities are released more and more each day when she is around these younger players. She gives us everything she has, and that is all I can ask. |
I think the players have finally begun to find themselves. Defensively, we have a better understanding of what we are trying to do. |
I told her (Kindred) in the locker room 'outstanding minutes', just real steady. She rebounded. She made her free throws. (She played) a great overall game. |
I'm real encouraged about next year. I feel we could have done a lot better this year with the people that we have. That was a disappointment, but we can't go back. We have to move forward and learn from what we did. |
On the road we just haven't played up to out potential. Today (Saturday) we defended well and forced them (South Carolina State) to take bad shots. |
She's extremely athletic and she has a good understanding of the game. She gets after it on the basketball court and she just has a good overall package. |
The only two newcomers that play significant minutes last year have been hurt this year. This team just needed time for growth and maturity. |
Their strength all year has been to press. I guess when you're small you have to try to speed the tempo of the game up. I thought we did an excellent job breaking the press. |
Turnovers have seemed to be our demise all season. Turnovers cost us scoring opportunities. We just have to get better. |
We are going to take care of that. We have to perform on the road the way we have performed at home. |
We knew that if we could stop her (Bowman), that would be half the battle for us. |
We knew they (South Carolina State) were smaller. We wanted to get the ball inside and take advantage of our size. |
We knew they were much bigger than us defensively, but our key was to rotate and be where were supposed to be. We had to have a lot of ball-crashing and we did that. Nine players dressed and everybody contributed. |