Dee Bell Quotations

We started the season 5-5 and it would have been easy to fall off. The girls stuck with it, and we rattled off 14 straight wins at one point. Getting back to the conference championship and making the NCAA tournament is pretty important to our players. Hopefully, we will advance and do well.

We're more focused on a first group and a second group now. It's really evolved over practice. They know what I expect and what it takes now to compete.

We're a very young team. We'll be back again. I think they know they lost to a team that could be a national champion this year.

We have so many weapons on this team, we hope they'll just pick their poison on defense.

We were a solid-in, I think the first of the independents to be seeded.

When I'm tired, my chin goes up and that's something that I need to work on. I need to get more mentally tough. (Wallace) has been on me about it since my freshman year.

She's big, she's strong, she can handle it, she can shoot it. She's pretty tough. A lot of people don't have anyone that can match up to her. She can play three positions out there and play them well.

She has my vote for All American. She made Katie Saxe look like a little girl against her.

I feel like we made a pretty good team look like they haven't looked this year. Some of that was due to injuries and fatigue.

Her growth in maturity has been tremendous. You know when she first arrived in the fall she was like a little girl but she was like a grown woman out there today. A couple of times she made those big plays that just showed how big and strong she is. Its been tremendous when she's playing well we're pretty good.

I think we're in. I don't think there's any question that we're in, but if there's an upset or two, we might get a home game which would be really good. The kids have traveled quite a bit this season with 19 road games now.

Playing on a neutral floor in the tournament so who knows what's going to happen.

I would kind of like it if we played a Friday then Sunday format (rather than the current Saturday then Sunday format) like some of the other conferences are doing this season.

You just have to give DePauw a lot of credit. I don't think we got rattled so much as DePauw shot the ball from the 3-point line better than they have all year.

We can play if we're efficient and we're able to defend.

We get to see how much we've improved because we know they are better and we know we've gotten better. We're really glad to be at home. The girls have played on the road a lot. We've had 10 home games and something crazy like 17 on the road this season.

We get to see how much we've improved because we knew they are better and we know we've gotten better.

The defense played well the whole game. Once we started connecting, it allowed us to extend (the lead).

Down the stretch and in tight games, she's willing to take those big shots and I remember last year we had several looks and our guards went cold and I'm looking up in the bleachers and there's Andy seven rows up and I'm going gosh (thinking of this year).

After 26 games maybe they are ripe for an upset.

Actually, it was our second unit that extended the lead midway through the half.

This doesn't wrap up the conference numerically. But it gets us very close. Everybody else has at least three losses and we have four games left.

This may be the best team I've had in a while. But they have to win a game or two in the tournament for me to make that official.

It's a challenge but after you win 25 straight you're ripe for a loss.

It's a nice place to be knowing you have two seniors and a junior of that caliber coming off the bench. If we get rattled, we have some real experienced depth to turn to.

It makes it hard to guard us when Melissa and Andy are both hitting.

It's good to have the only Wednesday game because we keep our timing and rhythm by not having to take a week off.

Its important to share the ball and the biggest stat to me was that of 29 buckets 20 of those were from assists.

It was a heck of an environment for a freshman to come into.

I hope we hold to form. We've had six or seven girls lead us in scoring and we've had six or seven who have put up 15 points or more in game.

I just couldn't convince them to post enough believe it or not.