Suzy Merchant
Suzy Merchant
Suzy Merchant is the current head coach for the Michigan State University Women's Basketball team. She is married to Gary Rakan and has two young sons, Tyler Rakan and Brady Rakan...
guard point production
We didn't get a lot of production out of our point guard position.
ball bring court move people point tried
We tried to make changes, bring in different people to move the ball up the court but we only have one point guard.
couple job kids
We had a couple kids that got away from us and we need to do a better job defensively on those kids.
against ball energy feed games good level
Van's had two back-to-back really good games against Ball State, and I thought her energy level is really something we could feed off of.
came handle reason
BG really came out and came after us, and we didn't handle it very well. There's a reason why they're 17-2.
bit fight
I anticipated it being every bit the fight that it was today.
eastern face michigan
She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.
certainly definitely felt half nice rolling second
She did a nice job. I certainly felt like she definitely got us rolling there in the second half when we were a little flat.
collective job nice
I thought it was a collective effort, but we did a nice job of getting to that kid.
balance besides biggest nice ryan
I thought the biggest thing was our bench. We had a nice balance besides Ryan and Nikki and our starters.
coming great job kids mentally physically prepared
I thought our kids did a great job of coming mentally and physically prepared for this game.
bowling came green handle
I think Bowling Green really came out and came after us and we didn't handle that very well.
carrie casey figure moore perplexed stop
I'm still a little perplexed at Carrie Moore and Casey Rost. If we see them again, certainly, we're going to have to figure out a way to stop those kids.
coming edge emotional gates great job proving sure win
I think they had the emotional edge on us for sure and I thought they did a great job coming out of the gates and proving they wanted to win this one.