It didn't feel like there'd been that much luster gone tonight. Just throw those records out and everybody goes and plays as hard as they can. |
It has been the most incredible ride you can imagine. |
It is remarkable how things have worked out for me. I am very grateful to everyone for their prayers and support. |
It's not something that you do very easily, obviously. When you do something for 24 years, you have to be sure that it's time to take the next step. |
It's still just incredible to me that God gave me the opportunity for 24 years to be the caretaker of this program. It has been the most incredible ride you could ever imagine. |
She does things in a different way than your traditional post players. It always feels great when we can get the ball in her hands. She's a playmaker. |
The Big 12 is a good conference, and that in itself should help us. |
The bottom line is that we didn't win enough games. ... We won 15, and I think if we had won 16 or 17, there is no question we would have been in. It is our fault. |
The emotion we've gone through in the last several weeks and all the things we've dealt with already ... I think it's the best move for the program right now. There's a process you have to go through to get a coach in place. To delay that any more didn't seem like the right thing to do right now. |
The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are. |
The thing you know about Iowa State is their crowd gains energy with the 3-point shot, so we really want to take that away. |
There will be a lot of people that will spend an entire summer watching films of Courtney Paris. |
They really overpowered us at every position. We couldn't get enough offense to really do anything about it. We got back on our heels a little bit, and you can't do that against pressure. |
To get a kid that's able to come back and do something like she did today, that's pretty special. |
We did get back on our heels a little bit. That's the worst thing you can do against pressure. You have to continue to attack it. I think we really let it bother us. They blocked a couple shots, and we got hesitant. |