Terri Mitchell
Terri Mitchell
Terri Mitchell was the head women's basketball coach at Marquette University. During her tenure, she has guided the Golden Eagles to a 348-215 record in 18 seasons. She is the school's all time winningest women's basketball coach, and has taken her teams to postseason play several times. Her teams earned seven straight postseason appearances between 2002 and 2009, including a WNIT championship in 2007. She is the fourth coach in school history...
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We're honored to host the opening game of the new BIG EAST Conference. I know the Marquette community will come out and support us and get a taste of seeing what one of the best women's basketball conferences in the country is like.
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We knew without Carolyn on the court, everyone had to do something extra. There are a lot of things Carolyn gives us that we needed to make up for, and we did a lot of great things tonight.
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We're coming out of this game knowing we have things to work on. But our effort and energy were great from beginning to end.
needed overall plan respect zone
The overall plan was to play our zone because we have so much respect for the athleticism of St. John's that we really needed a containment mentality.
knocked playing ranked seventh shots special team
When you're playing the seventh ranked team in the nation, you need to do something special to win. They knocked down their shots and we didn't.
mistake rhythm throws
We play everyone, and sometimes that throws the team's rhythm off. A lot of the time, it's the same mistake being made by different people.
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We are never going to give up and we're never going t look at the score and give ourselves a reason for not playing hard. We're playing to get into the NCAA tournament.
four half players points
All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.
awesome best challenge coming continuing easier excited great series teams
After the break, it doesn't get any easier for us. We're excited to play Rice, who is coming off a great season, and Virginia, one of the best teams in the ACC, at home. We know we have an awesome challenge after that in DePaul, continuing what has been a great series over the years.
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I thought we played much better in the second half, but we missed bunnies, shots our players would normally make, late in the game. These things happen. It's not the end of the world. You just change your focus and get ready for the next game. Like with a win, you have to forget about it and move on to the next game. You have to do the same with a loss like this.
ball defense handle harder key multiple people
If the ball is always in one person's hands, the defense will key in on that person. Having multiple people handle the ball is harder to defend.
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People know that when they're playing for me and for my staff, our team will never give up. They're going to fight. Once we put two halves together, we'll be a good team.
analyzing busy reminded team
I just reminded them that we're a much better team with energy. We had been too busy analyzing (the game), and there had not been enough reacting.
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It's not characteristic of our program to lose two at home, let alone three. That was our battle-cry coming into the game.