Willnett Crockett Quotations

We have no complaints about our bracket. The committee did what they did for a reason and we're happy where we're seeded and we're happy we have a chance to do what we hope to do, which is to come back home and play in front of our crowd.

Obviously, you want to have fresh bodies. But we just need to do our work before she catches the ball and make sure that we limit her touches.

I don't think you are worrying about smiling or being nice to your opponent. It's just like you have a job that needs to get done, and after those 40 minutes, I can smile and be OK with my play and with my team's play.

I expected to go third round or somebody would invite me. I'm just glad we all got drafted. Knowing I got drafted in the second round and being able to go home and play, that's a good thing.

I always thought I would get drafted or somebody would invite me, but just to know that I got drafted in the second round and to be able to go home and play, I think that's a good thing.

Just being around these guys, you never want it to end like this. You want it to end on that last day when nobody else can play after that. It didn't happen like that, but I'm proud of what we did. I'm happy to have the season we had, and I just feel blessed that we were able to make it this far to the Elite Eight.

I think everybody knows what they're capable of doing and what they're good at. If that's something that I can do and I'm good at it, then why not do it. If it's going to help our team out in the long run, then I'm willing to take on that role. It's just something that I don't have a problem with doing.

I think everybody is looking for somebody to step up and bring that energy out on the floor. If it is like diving on the floor for a loose ball and having everybody come over there to pick you up and that is going to get us going, then hey I am willing to do that.

You just have to do whatever you can to make sure you get that extra day. You leave it all out there because you never know what might happen, it might be your last game, and you don?t want it to be.

We really want to go out on top, just not being seniors but just knowing that we have something to prove within ourselves. We went through all these three years before this, we just need to come out there and play hard and, obviously, get the national championship.

You know what's getting me to play better? Not thinking at all. I think right now I'm in a good place where it's like 'just play. Don't worry about what's going to happen, what might happen. Do what you're good at and everything else will fall into place.' I can play defense and I can rebound. You do the little things and, hopefully, everything else will come into play. Whether it's getting on the boards, diving on the floor ... whatever I can do.

We only think about (losing to Stanford last year) when (reporters) ask us about it. I think everybody is totally different from last year, and right now we?re just thinking about what we need to do to get the win this year.

Every time I left the gym so I guess you can say out of 24 hours in the day I was calling home about 20 hours. I was sleeping the other four hours.

You never want it to end. Just knowing all the memories we have with this team, it's sad. But ... it's good that we came out and did what we needed to do to get the win. If we keep doing what we're supposed to do, we'll have a good memory at the end.

Take her home. We talked about that a long time ago. This is Nicole's chance, so we have to get her there. Obviously, you want to go out on top. We all talk about it, even before we became seniors. You want to go out with a national championship, and we know what we need to do in order for that to happen.

It's been hard for him this season. But I think when he looks back and he realizes what he has done with this group, I think it will all be worth it.

No. I want to get them down there.

It was hard! Oh, my God. I was trying to laugh, anything I could. I looked at my mom, I looked at Ann, and I was, 'Nope, look at the floor, please don't start crying,' because I can cry at the drop of a dime. To know I made it through the night is a good thing.

I'm glad they set it up just like that. And knowing that if we do what we need to do, we can win it all. So that's a good thing. When you play a team like Rutgers, who is obviously good, if we can beat them on their home floor it will say something about us.

I offset them. Sometimes they're all the way up here and if I'm right here I bring them down a notch to an even keel. So you just have to have me. If they didn't have me they wouldn't be who they are. You need somebody who's emotional because you think about other people when you're emotional. You put other people's feelings into regards. I think about them more than I think about myself and I help them out.

I don't want to say it like that, but it just so happens it plays out like that. It probably is something that triggers inside of me just knowing that right now is when it all counts.

I don't think we all were up to the challenge of just being able to tell each other how we feel or what needed to be done in order to get the win. It was just like, 'Hey, if it happens and we win, then we win.' And I think this year it's just like, 'Hey, this is what we need to do.' I think you have to come into your leadership role. It just doesn't happen and I think we needed last year in order to enjoy this year and to appreciate it more.

You know she wanted to be in there, she wants to do something to help her teammates out. That probably won't leave her head, that she wasn't in at the end of the game to help us out.