Pam Borton Win Quotations

We started slowly but played better midway through the first half and were able to control the tempo of the game. It's always good to get that first win in conference play.

A lot of things hurt us the last two games... fundamentals, physical play, decision-making, people showing up ready to play. Even as coaches, we have to work harder. We all share in the responsibility of what happened. We can't put it all on the kids. It's up to as a staff to get us headed in the right direction. This will be our test.

Five of our first six possessions were turnovers. We dug ourselves a hole very, very quickly. It was 10-0 before you knew it. But any time you turn it over 24 times and give up 18 offensive rebounds, it's going to be tough to win on another team's floor.

That's not why we lost the game. We lost because the other team was more aggressive than us and we didn't take care of the boards. You can't win in the NCAA tournament when you don't rebound and give up points like we did.

It shows her role on this team is not just to score points for us. If she doesn't have 33 or 25, we're still going to win games. She makes big plays on both ends of the floor for us.

When you have her at those numbers ... you think you'd win a basketball game.

There was no doubt in my mind that we were going to win this basketball game. There was no doubt in my mind before the game, after yesterday's practice, after shoot-around today. We wanted this game, it didn't matter who we played, it was all about us.

I don't know if we were bored or what. We did just enough to win the game. We had too many mental lapses and defensive breakdowns.