Mike Richardson Quotations

We've advertised and had some excellent applicants. We'll be holding interviews from next Monday and hope to make an appointment by the end of next week.

We're holding her out until we feel her play would hold us out of playing anymore. She's participating in the warm-ups. She's dressing. She's available.

Our kids do not quit playing. We don't say it's over until it's over. If we have another 50 seconds, we are going to make it tight.

Our hope was that she got back at all. She's still out of shape and is playing about 18 minutes a game, but she looks healthy and hasn't shown any signs of problems.

That's their game. They can keep it slow and pass the ball around, and we let them do that early on?it took our kids a little while to get going.

We realized as we talked to some other coaches that she hit those big shots in a lot of games. The first time we played her she wasn't really a factor, but we said tonight that we have to know where No. 14 (Short) is at all times and have a hand in her face.

Those big plays are our Achilles' heel. We always harp on big plays. Giving up those plays put it out of reach.

We worked hard on that the other day in practice. We worked on a set squad to go out there and play hard defense until they turned it over or we decided it was time to foul.

Big plays and mental mistakes bit us in the butt.

There were a lot of fouls - this is an aggressive game. When you get to a game like this, you've got to have a little luck, and some opportunities went their way that didn't go ours. That's just the way it goes.

That's a team that's done that all year long. They're (26-0), give them credit.

I'm fine. It's not over 'til it's over, that's what I've always heard. We were confident.

I guess you could say that meeting Jane was the luckiest day of my life.

I can't tell you how excited I am. We went from how down we were Friday night to the elation that we feel tonight. It is really both ends of the spectrum.

These girls have come a long way in the last three years.