It was her attitude, her demeanor, her smile, her work ethic. I just fell in love with her. |
It will be like a national championship game because you're going to have two teams out there that are just going to be incredible, talented, athletic, skilled, up-and-down the floor defense and blocked shots. You are going to see a lot of great basketball (today). |
It's an honor to play them and to have won this game. |
It's fun when we play each other because we have a lot of respect for each other, and we enjoy playing in that kind of environment. I've been coaching 31 years, and that's what you dream about - a game like that. |
It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points. |
It's hard to play at 11 o'clock in the morning. |
It's hard to play at 11 o'clock in the morning. We missed a lot of shots in the first half. I don't know -- I thought we had a some real good looks, and they just didn't go in. |
It's like the Final Four! |
It's like the Final Four! I don't know how any bracket can get tougher than our bracket. ... But hey, that's just the way it is. We have to go play those games. |
My biggest challenge is to keep this team level, to keep them down, to keep them from exploding. This is a high energy group. They're fun. They can't wait for tournament time. |
My relationship with my players is the best it's ever been -- I'm loving it and having a blast. And it's not just everything that's happened this year, but last year, too. |
No way she's 5-6. I look down on her, and I'm about 5-6½. She wants to be 5-6, so we let her be 5-6. |
None of us get the attendance that we deserve. None of us do. |
Our backs were against the wall, we had to produce. We had not played on the level we normally play on. I think we shifted gears and moved to a higher level. I don't know if they were holding out or what. |
Our game plan was to push the tempo as much as we could. I think playing three days in a row is really tough, but they came out with a lot of gas. |