Charli Thorne
Charli Thorne
basketball best playing road
It's unfortunate that we are not playing our best basketball during this road stretch. It stings. We need to clamp down.
freshmen huge reasons
Danielle has come up huge for us all year. Our freshmen are one of the reasons why we're here right now. If someone is struggling, we have a lot of weapons.
ability awesome bench blend deep people stepped team veterans
That's the awesome blend of this team -- the veterans and the new players. We have the ability to sub deep into our bench and different people have stepped up on different days.
building created energy feed great hope type
It was amazing. I really hope we can have this type of turnout (tonight). We feed off of that. There was a lot of great energy in this building created by our fans.
bright certainly chance fresh fully improve side tournament win window
There is certainly a bright side to that (UCLA) game. You win 10 in a row. You're a young team. You still have a lot that you can improve on, and you know you haven't fully peaked. Here we are with a chance to really look at the shortcomings that we had in the Pac-10 Tournament and regroup. We have a long window to get fresh again.
beginning further last minds next season step
We set out at the beginning of the season to take the next step this year. So I know that in their minds that's their goal, to go at least one step further than we went last year. I think that would be outstanding for us to be able to do.
preparing
We don't have to adjust. We've been preparing for this.
ended
We did what we said we were going to do and this is where we ended up.
ball ran
We did what we do. We started strong, executed well, ran the ball well.
aggressive kept stayed
We stayed aggressive and kept attacking. The way (Oregon State) battled with what they had should be commended.
best guards
They have some of the best guards in the conference, and we know this.
monday played ready
As well as we played today, I think we'll be ready to play even better on Monday night.
good hard proved realize sacrificed somebody team worked
Sometimes I just feel like this team doesn't realize how good they are. They've worked too hard and sacrificed too much to let somebody take what they've proved so far. It's so much about us. It really is.
executing fun game match mean point program proven question situation throughout
I think we're at a point in our program where we can pretty much match up with anybody. I think we've proven that throughout the season. It doesn't necessarily mean we're going to come out on top, but it's pretty fun to be in a situation where you go into a game and it's just a question of executing your game plan.