Lisa Bluder Ball Quotations

She has been a great addition to our basketball team. We were thrilled when we were able to sign Kristi Smith. We watched her play for a long time and we had our eye on her a long time. We felt she was going to be a tremendous player. So we were thrilled when we were able so secure her as an Iowa Hawkeye. We kind of felt like we stole her.

She is going to be a very, very good basketball player.

Even if they're not in the starting lineup, they're going to play so much time. So we're going to be an incredibly young basketball team.

We were not able to stop the pass into her. When she gets the ball one-on-one, most of the time, the kid is going to score. She's just that good.

This summer I was feeling really good about what kind of basketball team that we could create,

She's thinking about it way too much. It's nice to be able to win games without her, and it really forces people into a situation where they have to bring their game up another level. I think that's the good part, because when we get Crystal back, maybe we'll even be a better basketball team because of it.

We're going to be an incredibly young basketball team, but sometimes that's fun, too. Sometimes they don't know what they're in for, so it's kind of fun to watch them go through that.

They're very deep, that's a strength of their basketball team. But I'm not going to use that as an excuse. We didn't foul anybody out tonight, and I don't think it hurt us.

We thought we would be able to get the ball inside, and I thought Megan had another very good game for us.