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We didn't play very well tonight to tell you the truth. If our bench didn't come to the rescue, we would have been in trouble. Michele Hagan had a big night with 13 points and 13 rebounds in 13 minutes. That's almost a triple-double. And Jill saved us in the first half. We weren't shooting very well, and she came in and hit some threes and got four rebounds. The bench carried us tonight.

We set goals going into the game of what we wanted to do, and offensive rebounds was one of them.

We sent in our big guys to get a couple of clutch rebounds and they did that. You've got to have bench play like that.

We played well, they just shot the lights out, shooting 62 percent we and couldn't match that. Hilton had a good game, adding seven rebounds to her 15 points.

You look back at one play here and one play there and all that kind of stuff but they made the plays when they had to. If we could've gotten a couple of offensive rebounds or a couple of stops but we didn't. But I think Craig Smith was sensational.

We definitely started crashing the boards better in the second half. We knew if we weren't going to get the rebounds now, when are we going to rebound? Rebounds always matter, no matter if it's the beginning or end.

We worked harder on getting rebounds after halftime. We were so close, all we needed to do was take that extra step, and we did.

We've been working on our defense. We could have a poor shooting night, but suddenly we grab a couple of rebounds and we wake up. Our lapses are always when we're not playing good defense. It's something that Lourdes has always focused on.

We've been working on not missing with our shots, working on getting our shots on net and it's been paying off. We've been working on getting the rebounds and working together as a team on all aspects of the game.

We shot probably 30 percent. They were tipping in rebounds of their misses, and every time there was a rebound, there was a Charlestown jersey grabbing it. They're athletic, but I've seen us on occasion be just as athletic.

We knew we had to be more aggressive, stop letting them get offensive rebounds and pick up our defense. Coach (Mike Lonergan) stressed that at halftime and we just brought it in the second half.

We were right there. What it came down to was a couple of loose balls here and a couple of rebounds there that would have pushed us over the ledge.

We were very motivated (to rebound). (Davis) kind of made us feel bad because he said a Division I team should never get 18 rebounds -- especially Indiana ... We got 39 tonight and hopefully we can keep doing that.

We have goals for (opposing team) rebounds and they doubled it and some on what our goal is. We slacked off that, but Geneva did a good job of getting in there for those rebounds.

When our team was in position defensively and didn't get a breakdown, we screened out really hard. The kids were fighting for rebounds at that end. The Wolves did a really good job in the press. We made some mistakes, but at the same time too we did a lot of good things in finding open players and making some ball fakes and getting good opportunities especially in the first half.

The rebounding seemed like it was a lot closer than I thought it was going to be, because it seemed like they were getting a lot more rebounds than us. With the size that we have, usually 50 percent of the time we'll have an opportunity to get a second shot off, but they took that away.

We kind of beat ourselves. We didn't get key rebounds and we turned it over a bunch of times in the second half. A team like Detroit makes you pay for that. I think we're all disappointed. We wanted to win this game and felt like we should have won it. We just have to continue to play this way and hopefully, be playing in the postseason.

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This year we moved him to the inside. His scoring went way down, but his rebounds have hit double figures every game. It's a new role for him. He works hard and will do anything.

This time we were beat by a lot better team. Randy Davis, he's awesome. He did the scoring and got the key rebounds when they needed it.

We didn't get a body on people like we should have. It was that their big men were getting all the boards. A lot of rebounds went long, and went over me and Willie's heads. When a rebound goes long, Florida has the advantage because they're on the outside.

We didn't get a body on people like we should have. A lot of rebounds went long, over our heads and out to their (guards). But this was a lifetime experience for us, something to tell our children and grandchildren about. Just a great experience.

We did not play our neutral zone very well tonight. We need to work on our passing in that area and we need to work on rebounds. Alton does a great job scoring off rebounds and we need to crash the net like they did tonight.

We had 33 offensive rebounds and we played well on the defensive end. Defense carried us.

We are so excited to have Jamal back. If you look at his history, he always rebounds in a big way from adversity. He had a tough 2005 that started with surgery, his incarceration, and then dealing with all of the turmoil during the season with the contract hanging over his head. We expect big things from him.

The one thing that stands out in my mind is the field goals we gave up after missed free throws. If I am not mistaken, the Duke shooter got two offensive rebounds on missed free throws. I think in both of those cases they resulted in follow-up three pointers.

This was a huge confidence booster for us. We ended the three-game losing streak which included two heart-breaking one-point losses. We were desperate for a win. But we also knew Central Connecticut State would be tough mentally. They were. I just think we made some key rebounds and made some foul shots when we needed to.

There are a lot of ways to win basketball games, and obviously the easiest way is to score points. But when you don't do that, there are other things that you can do -- hustle plays like the tip-in or the rebounds on the free throws. Those plays can make a difference and they obviously did this afternoon.

When you play with confidence, you turn the ball over fewer times, you don't make as many mistakes, you get the rebounds you need to - it's the little things. Those were the things we talked about that had to happen.

We've got to come out here and play our butts off (against Puxico). We can't give up rebounds like we did tonight. We can't give up as many points as we did tonight. I thought Advance did a good job of scoring a lot of points. They got a lot of rebounds against us. We're going to have to play our A game.

Two things happened that put Lab out ahead. First, Darrell Paul picked up three quick fouls in the first half and had to sit out the entire third period. With him out of the lineup, the tall Lab front line dominated the boards. They had twenty-two offensive rebounds and scored a lot of their points on second shots.

Two of their players, Angela Clark and Danielle Chambers, are averaging better than 10 rebounds per game.

We had a tie game a gave up two consecutive offensive rebounds to Harrison. That set the tone for the end of the game. Harrison and Granger were the difference and we didn't have an answer for them.

Tony had a great offensive game. He hit some big shots. I'm not sure how many rebounds he ended up with, but it seemed like he was all over the place.

Tonight we took a step forward and you have to look at the positives. I'm not the type to sit around and analyze what we don't have. I'd rather emphasize what we do have. I emphasize rebounds with our guards.

Tonight was all Andy. He had nine points, five rebounds ... 25 charges. He was excellent, awesome.

The other night I told Larry he doesn't have to score every possession. He should be getting double-digit rebounds and some assists.

This was huge for us, beating them in their gym after they've beaten us the last couple of years. They're a really good team, we just got some big rebounds when we needed them and played good defense.

Those two have been sharing duties in the post and have started to give us a little bit of a presence. They had 17 points and five rebounds combined (last Saturday). I don't really have a plan of how I'm going to use them. I usually just go with what the foul situation is.

Those two guys are our leaders, and they do more than just score and get rebounds and get steals. They give courage to the rest of the guys with the way they play.

Those rebounds were crucial. We've got four guys in there and they've got two, and we can't get the ball. It's heartbreaking.

Those points come off those steals, and with the rebounds I just tried to help the team. But I'm proud of my six steals.

We got a lot of offensive rebounds that kept us in the game.

We got a little bit lucky in the first half. The inability for us to secure rebounds and second chance points were astronomical. We tried jumping and many of the boards went their way and they had many opportunities. They are 12-1 and they are there for a reason. They have some quality players. They have decent makeup and it can be difficult to guard the various weapons that they have.

We have 40 points and 21 rebounds a game coming back; that's a lot to fall back on. Hopefully we can set some really high goals for next year.

Twenty-two offensive rebounds has to be the most we've given up all year. Hopefully, we got our bad game out of the way.

To hold a team to 21 points, we played pretty well defensively. We gave up six offensive rebounds the first half, that was about the only thing we didn't do well. For 2006, it's a good way to open the year.

With him in the ballgame, we are a different basketball team. We have a place to go inside to get some baskets and rebounds and he alters shots.

What can I say about that kid. She gets a ton of rebounds and hit some huge shots (tonight).

We tried to make them score outside their offense. We gave up 10 offensive rebounds in the first half, but in the second half I felt like their frontcourt was fatigued.

We talked about it before to try to get to get more shots at net especially with their goalie. We heard that he might leave some rebounds coming out. And playing more straight lines, going more to the net, instead of peeling out in the corners.

We talked about how that was ridiculous that a team we out-man in height had eight offensive rebounds in the first half, and they probably had a little more than that. We made the adjustment, and did what we had to do, but the first half was key.

We just stepped up and made big plays and big, big rebounds on the free throws. We made some smart decisions at the end of the game.

We just got stops, rebounds and hit free throws. We've been trying to prove something every game and I think we've proven to ourselves that we can defend, rebound and hit free throws and if we keep doing that we'll win these close games.

We just got manhandled on the glass. On their first possession, it looked like they were playing volleyball on the glass. They might have had half of their offensive rebounds on their first trips down the court.

We just got beat on the boards tonight; that was one of our keys. We wanted to hold them to 10 offensive rebounds or less, and they had 28.

We just gave them too many second-chance points to start the second half, and they got some offensive rebounds and we didn't. That was the difference in the ball game.

When a goalie is off for that long, you expect he might be a little rusty. Early on, he was giving out a few more rebounds than normal. If we had jumped on a few on those, it might have been different. As the game wore on, he seemed to get more comfortable and he was pretty solid back there.

We had that one quarter where we were off. I thought we played pretty well, but we couldn't get rebounds at the end, and the fourth quarter killed us. They were getting all the rebounds and making shots, and they got us big-time with the press in the fourth quarter.

We showed we had what it takes to win. In the last couple of minutes, I thought we had some big rebounds and some big defensive stands.

We turned the ball over. We couldn't get the loose balls, and they took the rebounds away from us. I think they were more active.

We turned it around in the second half on the defensive end. USC attacked the basket and we had to make adjustments at halftime. Leon is grabbing a lot of rebounds and that helps.

We felt, coming into the game, that this game was going to be won in the paint. Bottom line, it boiled down to 42 rebounds for LSU and 27 for Duke.

We got some rebounds out there. We've got to bear down on them and bury one.

We got some offensive rebounds in the second half and the fact that our half court defense was better ... particularly from Ivory Clark. He made Brandon Roy work for everything he got.

We got outplayed again. They killed us on the boards. At one point during the second half, they had 20 more rebounds than us. We couldn't even block-out on a free throw.

We did a poor job rebounding. They (the Titans) grabbed 14 offensive rebounds in the second half that enabled them to hang in there and get a late lead.

We did a better job in the second half of taking care of the ball. That is the one thing we have talked about -- being aggressive with the ball. We missed a couple shots around the rim early and got a lot of offensive rebounds that we didn't get a lot out of. But over the course of the game, it turned out a lot like I expected it.

We didn't panic. We got some clutch rebounds and then we made some free throws in the end.

We didn't knock down some shots that we were knocking down the first half and they got some offensive rebounds that I don't think they were getting in the first half.

Brunner had like 23 rebounds in the last game, so our goal was to hold him to zero offensive rebounds. We just had to keep them off the boards.

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.

Even though he (Manning) didn't score he was still a force. He was finding someone else, he was getting rebounds and blocking shots. He was still the difference. There's only so much you can do with that kid. He's just a great player.

Big rebounds in clutch situations. That's what it's going to take for us to win -- defense. We can shoot. But we've got to make sure we play with intensity.

Everybody knows he can do it. Night in and night out, they're trying to stop him from getting double figure rebounds. Regardless of how he plays, regardless of how our team plays, win or lose, you're going to pick up that stat sheet and 99 percent of the time there's going to be 10 rebounds on there. It's incredible. It's incredible.

Every day in practice, we work on rebounding and boxing out. That's what we live by. The guys are good about getting shots from point-blank range, and we got a couple of key rebounds there at the end.

Beau really made some big plays late. He got inside and got 12 rebounds and he made the key free throws down the stretch.

Devon is a very versatile player. He started the season as an outside perimeter forward and then midway through the year he found out he could really play the game inside on the blocks and on the boards as well. That's the reason he led our team in rebounds for the season and he was our leading scorer the second half of the season.

Courtney Paris has almost a third of their team's rebounds this season and her twin sister, Ashley, has almost another third. We have to do a good job at not giving them second and third shot opportunities.

Andy is Andy. He's going to play his heart out. He's going to hit the floor, he's going to grab rebounds and he's going to set great screens. He gives 110 percent out there and he gives 175 percent energy.

Elizabeth Hall and Jackie Wetzel both had good defensive games and had eight rebounds each.

First time over there we didn't get any (offensive rebounds). We got like two offensive rebounds the first time. That was a big point of emphasis for us. I think we got like 12. That's a pretty good improvement over two.

There's nights when the other team doesn't get a lot of shots on you and keep you fresh. It seems like tonight they were shooting everything. They were shooting from the outside a lot to try and get some rebounds and I seemed to be in good position and then the D really helped me out on a couple.

There's no way I expected Chris to go in there and grab five rebounds in three minutes in the first half. He just goes in there and knocks people around....He's a horse, and he's excited to play.

I see the guys playing a lot harder when they see me and Reggie out there banging down on the floor, getting rebounds and doing the things that we do.

Is it possible that he can come back? Sure. There have been some tremendous and significant rebounds in American history and this would be one of them.

The zone has been our savior all year, we're long, big, and athletic, which makes it hard for anyone to get rebounds or score.

I've seen him play so well against people like Shaq and Yao Ming, ... a dominant low-post presence - someone that can get you 20 points and 10 rebounds and block shots.

It was the only way we could handle them, limiting their possessions. But we gave up 24 offensive rebounds and 29 turnovers. When you do that, holding the ball doesn't do you much good.

It was ugly at times. Both teams had the jitters. I thought the last two minutes of the game we had big hearts, stopped them when we needed to, got big rebounds and made just enough free throws to pull it out.

It was tough for us the whole game. You think you've got one of them blocked out and the other would get the rebound. It was hard trying to fight for rebounds and block them out at the same time.

The team played so well in front of me. We kept them on the outside and controlled all the rebounds tonight. It was great to shut down a high-powered team. But I know they'll be flying the next time we play them.

The things he (Ritchie) does on the court often go unnoticed. But, you look at his line tonight - 16 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists - and you can understand why we got off to such a great start.

Ryan has done that for us all year. I call her our X-factor because she does all the dirty work. She gets crucial rebounds and just played big-time tonight.

(Raap) is an extremely hard person to guard. She's so athletic and strong that she makes it so you can't guard her with one person. You have to guard her with two or three people, so someone is always open and that opens you up to offensive rebounds as well.

Ray's having an excellent senior year. He does everything we ask. He runs the point or he plays (shooting) guard. He's a good perimeter shooter, and he rebounds well. He's just an excellent all-around basketball player.

Our defense did a tremendous job, but we gave up some key offensive rebounds down the stretch that hurt us.

Our defense was terrific. They didn't get many shots through and when they did, Chris was outstanding. He played with confidence and handled the rebounds really well. It was just a good overall performance.

Offensive rebounds just killed us in the second half. We gave up way too many rebounds on the defensive end.

Defensively, it was probably the best game I've played with the steals, the blocks (three) and the rebounds. I play hard, I play with a lot of energy. Some nights I don't have the energy, and you can obviously tell the nights that I don't. I just try to play hard and go after the rebounds the best I can, and they were coming to me tonight.