North Carolina put on a clinic in the first half. I was disappointed in the way we played defensively. We played them much better in the first two games. |
Not to pick this game up tonight means we really have got to come through somewhere and win a game or two that nobody expects us to win. It just seemed that in the second half our defensive intensity wasn't there until the last four or five minutes. |
Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively. |
Our inside defense [disappointed me]. |
Rebounding enabled us to win that game. |
She always plays hard. She has just been working harder with her shot selection and getting in her range for her shots. We tried to set up a few more things to give her opportunities for penetration. |
She's been doing a really good job. We've tried to set up a few things to give her more opportunity for penetration and help her out as much as we can from our offensive sets. I thought they got the ball to her, and she took advantage. |
That was the main thing I wanted them to focus on was not to letup on the defensive end. Play great defense, box out and they got their hands on some balls down the stretch playing great defense. That really helped save the game for us. |
The effort and the hustle and the defense I feel good about. |
There's not a player for Maryland who's not a threat. We had our hands full. They one of the most talented teams in the country, and we'll see soon if they may be the very best. |
This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love. |
This is now a mind-over-matter thing. We saw coming in that we would have to play four games in the bracket (to win the title). We'll go back and rest and we'll eat well. It's going to be a two-hour game. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. How tired can we be? We can't be tired. |
We are fortunate to come out of here with a win tonight. Billie McDowell had a great game for us and all of our players that came off the bench played a key role in our win. |
We feel badly for our fans [that] we didn't give them more than we did today. But the way we've been playing down the stretch and having won the first two games, it let us know that we can do some really good things when our focus is there and our mindset, and we're ready to go and together. |
We have to have that in a game like this. There was no way we could fare well having one half of our offense. |