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It was a hard-fought game. It was a great win for our kids. We didn't play well early, but they dug in. We really played good defense in the second half, and we made a lot of good hustle plays tonight. Every one of them was important for us.

It was a great win. It was really a total team effort - offense, defense and special teams.

It was a battle. Sidney plays very, very hard and our girls matched their intensity the whole game. Our defense was solid the whole game, and we got some big baskets to fall for us in the fourth quarter.

Jim Haslett

It was poor run defense the first half, ... We are going to find some guys who want to do it. We will find them and they will be the people who are going to play.

It was part defense and probably them missing shots they couldn't make.

It's what we've been looking for since Vanderbilt, basically. I think our defense played so well that we weren't giving up any of the open shots.

It's very frustrating. It's really embarrassing. This is professional football, not high school football. Even in high school, they score a lot of points. We need to score a lot of touchdowns. The defense is holding us in games. We need to hold up our end of the bargain.

It's very frustrating. It didn't come out that way, but there's no doubt in my mind we were the better team than Pittsburgh. The defense played great. They gave us good field position and we just missed our opportunities. Whether it was penalties or whatever, we just didn't execute right. It was nothing Pittsburgh did. We just killed ourselves.

It's way, way, way too early to talk about things like that. I've never been on a team where it got like that. We're all in it together here. And we're not playing perfect football on defense anyway.

Scott Erickson

It's wasn't a great game, but we want to make sure we get something positive out of the experience. We got to work on some different things with our offense and got them out by halftime, our defense got three quarters and a lot of our younger kids saw some action.

Steve Francis

It took him 30 shots to get 37 points. I don't think the defense was that bad, but he definitely made some tough shots.

It was good to see our offense finally get on track. Our special teams made some big plays, and our defense is still playing solid.

It was good to go out and get two wins. We had good defense and great pitching. We need to put some more hits together to make more things happen.

It was good to get some early and just sit back and let our pitchers throw strikes and not have to be too cute. Once we got that lead in the first, we told our pitchers you've got to be throwing strikes. No free passes, let our defense do the work. We only want to throw strikes, no walks at all.

Tommy Tuberville

They couldn't get anything going on offense, but their defense gave us a fit.

They come out and played very good defense and made it hard for us to get catches. There post defense was a lot better then it was the last time we played them and that was the huge difference in the game.

The two positive things from this game were that we played good defense and be rebounded well.

The two keys tonight were Maggie and Tristan, and Tiffany's defense on double-zero.

The turning point was on defense, where we gave up 23 points in the first half, and 19 in the third quarter.

The varsity returns eight starters on defense and seven on offense.

They did a very good job on defense and we missed some open shots. I made a key turnover late that hurt us.

They did a very good job being patient on offense. Tech played a very solid defensive game. But even at that, as good a defense that they played, we still had open opportunities that we just didn't finish.

They did a terrific job of knocking us off our shots. So when the shots didn't go, there were some reasons for it. It was the defense they played.

They did a really good job on defense. We missed some open shots and I made a key turnover late in the game. It's a situation where we didn't make key plays down the stretch.

They did an excellent job defensively. They only had five points in the first half. Our defense really did the job the whole game.

They can run and throw. Their defense has given up yardage, but they still have the Ws.

They can keep (Seattle's defense) under the radar if they want. We've got a great offense and I'll take my hat off to them, but defense wins championships.

Ben Howland

They are obviously an outstanding team. They played in all phases. Their defense was terrific.

Bob Johnson

They were a little tougher than we thought they were going to be. Our defense was on the field it seemed like most of the game.

They were a good team then (Dec. 31, first meeting), and they are a good team now. They have some weapons, they are playing solid defense and they are used to winning.

They were able to run our defense out because we kept giving them the ball.

They went to a diamond-and-one defense to stop Amanda, but it opened up our inside game and she was able to drive or set up our interior people. We dictated the pace of this game. They are a running team and good 3-point shooting team, and neither thing happened for them tonight.

They went to a box-and-one defense and did two or three other things to keep her limited. I'll tell you what, though, in the first half she rang 'em up, put em' up and it was going in.