Elaine Pagliarulo Quotations

She made her mind up to go to the basket tonight. She was more confident driving to the basket and that made a big difference. We've been wanting her to take over a game like this all season because she can do that.

That was great. She needed that. This team needed that. They had put their best defensive players on her the past two games. Tonight we needed her to step up anyway and she did that.

This was a big game for them mentally after losing to them three times last year.

We missed a ton of shots, easy shots.

Every possession, she took it to the basket. That was the difference. I give her a lot of credit for coming out and being intense and ready to play.

That takes a lot of the pressure off. Michelle played extremely well tonight.

They found a way to win and that's what it comes down to. We are used to scoring in the 50s and 60s, and tonight we were in the 40s again, which was huge for us to win that way. Some of our better shooters had a hard time. But my team responded well with other people stepping up again.

It's tough when you are waiting for the other girl to score, but I thought my team came out and played very calm. It was loud in there. After the 1,000th, (Griffiths) probably felt relief. She got a couple in a row and it was a big momentum swing.

I knew (Seitz) and (Nancy Littlefield) were their best players. Littlefield got into foul trouble early, and that was good. Seitz had 16 points in the first half, and that was the difference in the game.

If you had asked me before the game if we could have won scoring only 49 points in the game I would have said no way.