Kathy Olivier Quotations

We've turned into a possession team. That's what good teams do. To be honest, we learned that from Stanford. There's a team that's extremely disciplined and they don't make a lot of mistakes.

We had awesome focus and intensity. If we could do that for 40 minutes, we could beat any team in the country. Cal?s freshmen are amazing, but our focus and intensity made the difference.

She's already a great player. We focused on her, I'm not going to lie, and that's how many rebounds she had. She has an amazing way about her.

Noelle does so many positive things. She's a young lady who just acts like a champion, during good times and bad. How she sees, how she finds the positive in everything, that's a big plus to have someone like that on the court.

I have a very offensive-minded team. They light up when they make that pass, and they light up when they score.

I can't say enough about what's she's done for this conference. I've always looked up to her. She walks on water. She's the Olympic coach, she's won national championships. And she wants to share with you, when you have the guts to ask her a question.

Give Bowling Green credit, they never gave up. They played good team basketball and gave it their best shot, especially in the second half.

We matched their defensive intensity, and I think that's why we came out ahead.

Life on the road, it's not fun in the Pac-10. We're out of sync right now and Stanford is playing well.

I think everyone who plays us is going to pay attention to our perimeter game, but I think our posts actually have been doing a very good job lately.

Lindsey did a great job of hitting the two free throws. Obviously we needed them because Brandi hit the shot at the end.

Lisa is playing the best I've ever seen her play. She's doing that by taking better shots, and her shot selection is more efficient. Defensively, she's getting us going.

I think our team likes playing in front of big crowds. I think it's something our team welcomes with open arms.

We ended the season on a good little run and we're playing probably our best basketball now. Our defense is feeding our offense and it's much better basketball for us now that we're focusing on defense.

We have a very quick team, and we wanted them to be active defensively. We have definitely been focusing on defense in practice. A lot of those steals came in the first half.

Those kids don't play like freshmen. They want the ball and don't shy away from contact.

We had a couple of different game plans. We have game plan A, B, and C, and we went through the gamut of all of them. The fun of coaching this team is the versatility. We did different things today and really tried to keep them guessing, and I thought we kept them off balance.

Brooke is a force inside. We didn't feel like single coverage would do the job. She didn't get that many easy looks but she kept her head up, got some offensive rebounds and scored on second chances.

Brooke is a force inside. We didn't feel like single coverage would do the job.

Brooke is a force inside and we didn't feel like single-coverage was going to do the job. In the first half, I felt like we were making her work hard for her shots.

The women's game has come a long way. She did it with a player on her. I was like, 'I like that Candace Parker.' ... She made it look easy.

They have such good size and they're so fundamentally sound. We can't let them get in the upper 20s (in points), low 30s inside.

It was big time. Both teams were competing at the highest level. In the second half, we came out with a different focus. We told ourselves, 'We've come this far, we're not going to sit down and die now.

I don't think they are vulnerable at all. We were out of sync today and Stanford looked very comfortable on its home floor.