Sylvia Hatchell Good Quotations

It was good for us to play a game like this. This is the sort of game that is going to help us prepare for Monday night.

It's hard to play at 11 o'clock in the morning. We missed a lot of shots in the first half. I don't know -- I thought we had a some real good looks, and they just didn't go in.

We knew they would give us a good game. We just wanted to keep the tempo up. They had a lot of gas left.

At times we looked pretty good out there, at times we were a little ragged. We had five kids in double figures, and that balance is a strength of our team.

I've been doing this a long time, and I've had a lot of great teams. Trust me, I know, any coach is only as good as their players. I've got great players, and I've got a great staff. They make me look good.

We have watched Riverside, and they are a very good motion offensive team. It's a young team that has a lot of eager players, so we know we have to be ready.

Candace Parker is a great player but she's not the entire Tennessee team. They have a lot of great players. I think you just have to have a good game plan and give them some different looks.

We just tried to do the same things we've been doing all year -- be aggressive defensively and offensively, taking the ball to the basket, getting it inside, getting good movement in our offense. Defensively we threw some different things at them. I thought our kids played really hard.

We just talked in the locker room that this is great. I congratulated them and asked if this is good enough. And they said, 'No.' They want to do bigger and better things. They're special kids, they have great chemistry and they have fun.

I love my staff and my team, and we're going to have a good time and continue to play Carolina basketball. A lot of people are saying to me, 'You all look like you're having fun,' and we are. We try to smile and enjoy the experience that we're having.

There are differences between being quick and fast. I think there's no doubt Marion was faster, but as far as being quick, I don't know. It's a good comparison. Ivory is quick and she's fast, too. I'd say Marion is faster, but quick? I don't know which one.

She shoots like that all the time. She made good decisions and got good looks. It's not that unusual to tell you the truth.

She's our point guard, our leader and a winner. She's tough and I knew she would make a good decision and score or get to the foul line.

Dean? Man, you make me feel old. The only time when somebody says dean that I think would make me feel good is if they compare me to Dean Smith, to tell you the truth.

She's taken on the responsibility of defending some of the best players in the country this season and she has done an excellent job. She's an intelligent defensive player and a really good one-on-one defender.

They're about the only good team that's not (in our bracket). They definitely deserve to be a No. 1 seed, and maybe somewhere down the road we will get to play. But there's a lot of great teams. I just want us to keep playing the way we've been playing, and hopefully things work out where we'll be able to be in Boston.

There's going to be some really good basketball here.

People asked me all year how good this team could be, and I said all along they could be as good as they wanted to be. I really feel that way, this is a special group. They all complement each other so well, and the chemistry is great.

The first half and the second half were very different. We weren't rebounding and weren't playing very good defense. Once we started playing Carolina basketball we were OK.

All the teams, they go up and down the floor, run the ball well, they have a strong inside-outside game. Just good balance, good flow. All four teams here are a lot of fun to watch play.

A little sloppy at times, but we knew it was going to be a tough game. We're a team, with the tempo we play, lots of times we play in runs. We felt like we eventually could go on a run and get a pretty good lead.

We had some really good moments out there, but there were still times we sputtered and stalled.

We're happy with the win against a very good Boston College team.