Kari Koch Quotations

We have young players who have never been so it's going to be a little nerve-racking for them. We're not at home, either. We just have to take the 'no pressure' attitude with us that we had this weekend.

Losing is not fun, but we still got here. Nobody thought we'd get here and we did. Playing in the NCAA Tournament is a great way to end.

Our fans didn't let us get tired. They were behind us the whole time, even when we were down by 14 points (Thursday night). With them we knew we were not out.

We can't get so tensed up and spastic like we have before. Staying focused and relaxed and not getting so tensed up will be the key. We have no pressure on us.

We were up by eight, but we've been down by eight in that same situation. You have to know that a team can come back from that.

We really took care of the ball in the second half (one turnover after halftime). And we had 20 points off of their turnovers. We didn't give them but four chances to do that on us.

We stayed pretty calm. I mean, it's not like we got too frustrated. We knew they were gonna (come after us). So we stayed pretty calm, and so did they, and they just stayed on their run.

We only needed a two, so I wasn't really looking for the 3. I just did the wrong thing.

This year, we got beat by 20 a couple of times and that was hard to take. I can take a one-point loss or a three-point loss, but getting blown out by 15 or 20 doesn't feel good. Even at home we got beat by a lot at times and that's a personal pride thing. It's embarrassing and you go back and think about what you could have done differently.

There's other people that can (score) so that's a great thing. I wasn't doing it tonight and other people stepped up and did it.

It was two good wins here, but a lot of other teams are playing confident. We just have to carry our confidence on to the road and keep it up.

That's how we're looking at it. We're going to go there and give everything that we can give. We know what we have to do.

This is definitely going to shock some people. Maybe it will put a little fear in them.

They knocked us off last year so you definitely have that deep down and still think about it. We also go in needing the road win, too ? that's enough motivation.

It was a lot of fun. I met a lot of people and hung out with some players I hadn't met before.

It's another week for me to wear this Missouri State uniform. I like playing for this coaching staff and for this team. It's almost over for me, but I don't want it to end.

It's hard to get good looks when you have someone guarding you who is so much taller but at the same time just as quick.

The biggest difference with (Traore) was that she had height. Her arms are really long and every time I got a pass it had to be a bounce pass because her arms were too long to throw a chest pass.

It will be something nice to look back on later, but I don't really think about awards too much right now.

It went excellent. I'm not lying. I said I didn't want to come here because of that speech. I saw Jackie (Stiles) do it and it made me nervous.

I'm sure they would have been key for us. They are both learning every day by watching and that's a good perspective to have.

In high school, I used to joke with my family that I wished there wasn't a bench. Even when I'm dead tired I hate to come out of the game. You just focus your mind not to think about getting tired.

I kind of like being the underdog. The lower seed stays relaxed.

I'm just looking forward to seeing what happens. If it happens, that would be great.

I just let myself get frustrated and that's the first time I've done that this year. Hopefully it's the last because it really threw me out of my game.

I really haven't had a chance to sit down and think about it all. I couldn't really get to sleep (on Sunday night), but when I woke up I still had a smile on my face. But what happened hasn't really hit me yet.

I could have played another game if I had to.

I came off a screen and (the defender) actually went under and I made a three. I haven't had someone go under a screen against me in a long time.