Zach Keene Quotations

She's the type of player than can take over a game and not score a point.

We came out a little timid, a little tentative. But (against Flanagan) we came out and told (the girls) to relax, have fun and put up your shots. If you miss 12 in a row, put up another one.

I've got to give credit to coach (Jim) Cole and the West Central Heat. It's tough to be a first-year consolidation and make it as far as they did. They went through state-ranked teams and played some great basketball to get to this point.

It got pretty sloppy there at the end, but I thought our girls held on and did a great job.

A lot of people didn't think we'd get here. But we believed from day one that we could get here. ... We did make the top (title) game like we wanted to, but I'm so proud that we did bring home a third place trophy. There's only two teams that finish out with a win and we're one of them.

We got a lot out of this tournament. We got a look at some teams we'll see down the road. We got to play some great basketball teams that we normally don't get to see that are state-ranked.

We didn't feel like we could get a whole lot of steals, but we wanted to force the issue and try to make conditioning a factor.

When we can step on the court, knowing that we've been here before, it's huge. The nerves are always going to be there, but you have that confidence of saying 'hey, we've been here before, we can do it again,' it helps out tremendously.

We're focused, but yet we're still enjoying the moment. No matter how many times you've been there, it's still something special.

I wasn't really pleased with our press, even though it did slow them down a little bit. We didn't get the turnovers like we normally do off of it.