Pat Summitt Played Quotations

We'd been working on it since we played them in Knoxville. But we hadn't used it.

I thought we played very well together and got the ball inside. We played an efficient game overall, if you just look statistically.

She has played a key role for us this season. Now, it's time for this team to step up and find out what they are made of.

Obviously I'm very pleased with the intensity, the enthusiasm on the bench and everyone who got on the court. We played well together.

We know it's going to be a pretty hostile environment, but our team has been exposed to that. All the players that have played here understand that we go on the road.

I think we're a better basketball team now than when we played them. I feel good that we can go inside against them.

You can't win games in the first half but you certainly can lose them. We just dug ourselves too deep a hole in that first half. In the second half we played them even but in that first half we were not comfortable.

She was tough. She's a freshman, but I thought she played more like a veteran tonight.

I thought it was a game where we developed a lot of character from beginning to end. We were very nervous offensively, but it didn't affect how we played on the defensive end, fortunately.

She responded maybe even better than I had anticipated. I thought it was important for her to get some quality minutes and as things played out, I wanted to give her more. I had gone in thinking maybe 12 minutes, and she played 17 minutes.

At Duke, they played great and we played bad. At times, North Carolina overwhelmed us with their speed and quickness.