C. Vivian Stringer Quotes
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I think if you were a gambler and you had a million dollars, you should have gone to Las Vegas and bet a million dollars that Tennessee and Rutgers would meet in the NCAA tournament.
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Every possession was crucial. Every point, every missed cut. It was that kind of a game. It's nice to finally win here.
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There is no question that Villanova is the team we most dread to play. I am so grateful to get that game over.
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I thought we were excited in the beginning, running around like chickens with our necks cut off. I feel we settled down, I just wondered how far we were going to go before we settled down.
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I thought West Virginia really deserved this win. I think their team clearly wanted it more. They worked hard from the beginning. I think they played with a great deal of heart and determination.
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It was great to see our team execute, move the ball, take great shots, play defense, it was nice to see them play so free. It was one of the better games I've seen in a long time and it comes at no better time than now.
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She seems to see the game slow down, no matter how fast she's moving. She's very good at taking the game apart and not taking bad shots. And when she's going to make things happen, she carries that 'ain't nobody going to stop me' attitude.
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The two best teams in the Big East are Connecticut and Rutgers. What better situation could you want than to have this game played and be the last one? I don't think you could ask for anything better than that.
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It's a challenge and I'm anxious to see how we rise to that. It's one thing when you are hunting. It's another thing when you are hunted.
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They're tournament-tested and play at the highest level. They're ready.
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There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.
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We've been getting progressively better which is good. We haven't been consistent. We've been up and down, but I'm more encouraged than discouraged. It's been an up and down year. We had a real fine game against DePaul and I can tell you I am looking forward to this game.
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She really did change the game because we were not able to get a '55' defense. I thought the difference was her being able to extend the defense at full-court level.
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It's the same issues. It's not that I didn't know we had posts that haven't shown up. This is bad. I felt we played selfish basketball. I thought we did not play very smart. Our rebounding was very lax; we did not play as if we had a purpose.
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They are an NCAA team. They are a good young squad who deserve to go. The Big East should get eight or nine teams in.
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There is no question that Villanova is the team that we most dread to play. I'm glad we were able to be victorious, because they really wear you out.
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She's done a great job. She and her staff have really brought the level of competition up ... I believe the future is very bright for Pittsburgh. Very, very bright.
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I mean, really. I knew they counted on our fans, but wow.
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It was nice to see them play free. It was one of the better games I've seen in a long time.
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Essence takes great pleasure in creating zeros on anybody that she plays.
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We would get in the gap and then kick it out 15 feet, and that's nice because you're sharing the ball. But what we were trying to do was put the game away earlier, so we understood how you do put a game away.
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To date, yeah, we probably are. We've done a lot work on zones in the last week and a half, anticipating that everybody is going to play zone, but the team that we feared most was Marquette. I like zone a lot as a coach, but my team doesn't seem to like zones.
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I'm looking way ahead. I'm looking at Connecticut.
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We did not play. I don't know if we overlooked them, (but) there's no point in complaining about it. We deserved to lose. We should be going home and we will be going home in a couple of hours.