Claire Coggins Quotations

We're a very young team, and look how well we've played against so many teams. We've been able to win a lot in the Big 12, and we could have won a lot more. We're really showing up in the last part of the season.

We've been in very close games this season and have come up short. Tonight was kind of like the ending point of those types of disappointments.

She's the oldest one, she's the most mature, she's the smartest. She's just Jessica, you know, J-Mac.

She gets at least 10-12 (points), or she gets boards every time. She's stepped into her leadership really, really well. She's a big leader on the floor.

I think as a team, not just my game, we're coming together. We're playing our best ball.

We hadn't played in over a week. Anytime a team doesn't get to play within however long, they're going to come out a little rusty. Our fire was there and our intensity and that's what really got us going.

We are disappointed because there are some teams that are 14-16 (that got into the NCAA Tournament), and it doesn't seem right, but that's the way it goes, and we are really proud to get to play in the (W)NIT, and that we get to play at home.

We've got a good chance; I'm confident in this team. We played Baylor great when we were (at home). We finished out the game well against KU. We're not looking ahead. We want to beat KU first and then think about whoever else.

Everyone up here deserves a part of this. I wasn't great tonight by any means, but our team was. I'm just proud to be a Kansas State Wildcat.

It makes you really realize how important winning in the Big 12 is. It's really important for us to take care of business every single night, and it's something that we've learned.

It's a positive thing that we can get a great team like Missouri down by so much that we can come out hard, and we can come out on first and play real hard. It's just the learning curve, and the learning aspect of the game where we need to learn how to keep it and learn how to fight each possession to keep it.

It was just absolutely ridiculous. Our whole team couldn't put a free throw in. Dietz did a great job getting a steal for the game and making that loose ball hers. It was just an ugly game on every single aspect.

Any time you can disrupt the flow of someone's offense with hard defense like we were playing, it's kind of a dagger to the other team.

I don't think anybody was thinking about the past games at all. We're not bothered by anything we've done in the past. Obviously we weren't bothered by what we had done in the regular time of that game.