Susan Walvius Team Quotations

You have opportunities and you turn the ball over ... we're better than that. One thing our team is working to understand is a little more of a sense of urgency, a little more aggressiveness without hurrying.

Not many teams have to come out and play No. 1 and No. 3 and then play on the road. We have confidence in this team. They've got to weather the tough part of this schedule mentally.

We talked about it at the beginning of the season -- that we had a very tough stretch to open the SEC schedule. We only have two losses to non-top-20 teams, and our team understands that. Our team is very focused on the big picture. We're in a very good place, and we're in a position to do extremely well.

I thought we did a nice job on the boards, and I thought our defense was solid. We have held our last five teams under 35 percent shooting and then when you rebound the basketball like we did, it helps you to be successful.

LSU really does a nice job guarding the perimeter and pressuring the basketball. The one thing LSU does different from other teams is they have extremely active hands on the ball. They get a lot of deflections and play the passing lanes. Teams tend to throw (ball) away because it looks like the passing lanes are open.

In the SEC, we're playing against teams that are very solid defensively. It's almost like a defensive chess match out there. I'd like to see us play with a little more patience. When we see a zone defense, we have the mentality to set-up offensively instead of attack. We need to play with more of a sense of urgency.

This team will reach its potential this year. I see that.

You're going to have days when you don't have a great game. We've got a great basketball team and I hope the NCAA will take a look at that.

We were able to take Arkansas' strengths away from them, and it was really a solid all around defensive effort. The nice thing about our basketball team is you are going to have a different person step up on any night of the week.