Beth Burns Quotations

I am the lone representative from the Mountain West that votes for the women's top 25 teams and I have been voting for Wyoming. The week they beat BYU on the road and New Mexico at home is the best week that any team in the MWC has had this year.

There is a great hunger within the program for earning respect from the campus and community and conference. When you look at any team, any program, the difference between good and great is usually between the ears. We need confidence. But you also have to prepare for the success you're going to have. You have to act like a winner. You have to walk like a winner. You have to dress like a winner. You have to carry yourself like a winner. I'm a pretty straight shooter. You don't have to wonder what my thought process is.

When we recruit someone who is going to be a junior, we're going to recruit someone who is going to come in and play.

What stood out more than anything was she worked as hard as she possibly could every possession, every minute of the game. I call her a wild card because she can do different things in different games. The way she carried herself, we thought she was dynamite.

We miss a lot of shots, and you can't let that affect (the game). We miss a shot, we hang our head for a minute and they're gone. That was the crux of it. I don't think we took poor shots. We took shots that were within the scheme of what we were doing. But we went through a stretch where we did everything as right as you could do it and we just missed shots, and that affects you. Whether it should or shouldn't, it does.

Their offense is so good it gets you demoralized and changes your pace. We cannot afford to do things at that kind of pace.