Katie Gearlds Game Quotations

It's gonna be nice to play in familiar place, but we lost our last game there. We all remember losing to Indiana and hopefully we can get a win.

You should approach a basketball game the same way every day. It doesn't matter who you play, if it's the Indiana Pacers or a third grade team.

No matter what they do, they're huge for us. In so many games they've been so big for us, and it's something we're going to need down the stretch.

It's only human to look ahead and think if this happens or if this happens. Realistically, you have to take it one game at a time because if you don't win, you don't go on.

We're going to have to get out and contest their shots. This is a huge game for them and we expect them to play their guts out.

Basketball is a game of runs. It's just all a matter of how you handle it.

I'm just excited to have the opportunity to be in the tournament and play our opening game on our home floor.

There are so many weapons in her game that just make us so much better. I'd hate to be the other team trying to figure out how to stop her.

That was probably the biggest game in non-conference we had. Once we got that win, it got us going confidence wise.

We played our game at our pace. And I think that's why we won this game.

It's a matter of taking it as we did with every other home game this year. It doesn't guarantee us anything but it's going to be nice to play in front of the home fans.

Defense wins our games for us. It's just a very good defensive effort.

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

We started executing offensively and got stops defensively. Basketball is a game of runs. We had to sustain ours a little longer, and we did.

In all honesty, (the Big Ten title) is kind of still in our own hands. We do still control our own destiny. With two games left, it's first or second from here on out.

Hopefully we can focus on just that one game and not worry about the other 62 teams in the bracket. We've just got to play our game.

It's huge, but at the same we know it doesn't guarantee us anything. It's going to be nice to play in a familiar place, but at the same time, we lost our last game there.

To win four games in four days and have two or three players playing 40 minutes, that's extreme toughness.

Personally, it does (feel great) deep down inside all of us. It makes this game feel pretty good.