Mike Carey
Mike Carey
came coming energy felt played
We felt coming in here that we had nothing to lose. We had a lot of energy and came out and played hard.
beating game girls group happy hard losing minute played taken
I am so happy for this group of girls because they have taken a beating from me during our losing streak. They have played hard every minute of every game in this tournament.
doubt great lose played sit
Let's make no doubt about it. If we played Rutgers 10 times, we probably would lose nine. I'm not going to sit here and say we're a great team. Everything just went our way.
balls bit face games great hit league overlooked played playing thinking win won
Some balls bounced our way. Let's face it, Rutgers is a great team. They won 16 league games in a row. If we played them 10 times, they would win nine. I think they overlooked us a little bit thinking about playing Connecticut in the final. But Rutgers won't be in the final. I don't know if this all has hit me yet.
aggressive bother earlier gave loose played tied tried unless year
We played them earlier in the year and we were tied at 20 by the half. We played that zone, but we gave up a lot of penetration. We can see that it did bother them, so we just tried to tighten it up and don't go out on their non-shooters. You can't do that unless you rebound. I thought that was the key. We were very aggressive getting some loose balls.
aggressive dollar fed likely market near revised term view
The near term gyrations in the dollar are more keyed in to the TICS data, and the revised view that Fed is not likely to be as aggressive as the market thought.
confidence finish happy next starting
I'm just happy right now that we're starting to finish some games. We're very young and this will give us some confidence for next year.
early team
That's a little early for a team timeout, isn't it?
ashley ball freshman guard lack quick replace threw tried
We tried to get a quick score. Ashley Powell thought she could take it all the way and she got a charge. Then we put the other freshman guard in (to replace Owens) and she threw the ball away. It was not from lack of effort, it was just lack of experience.
eight girls group lost prouder regroup row
We lost eight in a row after Meg went down and really couldn't find our identity. But right now I've never been prouder of a group of girls to really regroup and do the things they've done in this tournament.
bit felt held hit needed offensive score stayed
We wanted to score a little bit more than we did. We held them to 50, stayed on the boards, got some offensive rebounds. We did what we felt needed to be done. We just didn't hit our shots.
early team
Boy, this is too early for a team timeout.
build gave maybe next pride top tournament
This is something to build on. We feel now we can play with some of the top teams. This tournament gave us a little pride to see that maybe we can get to the next level.
conference qualify
As a competitor, you don't want to qualify for your conference tournament, because, not only did you lose, but someone else also lost, which is why you got in. You really want to get in by winning.