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We tried to pinpoint what we do best. We said at halftime we wanted to win the second half.

We talked about it at halftime and it's not that the game slipped away from us and we got behind 28-7, it was almost as if we forced ourselves to be behind 28-7.

We just played real lethargic the whole first half. They got a good chewing at halftime and came out and went on a huge run. ... We went out in the third quarter and just lit it up on the scoreboard and played real hard defense.

We just made a little adjustment at halftime pertaining to their secondary break, and offensively we played better. We started moving the ball, we got some easy baskets in transition off our defense, and we were a little more poised and patient.

We just told the girls at halftime that in order to win, we would have to play some defense. We were allowing them too many opportunities in the first half.

We just gave them a few basic instructions and they didn't really do what I asked them to do. I asked them at halftime, they play a very compact game and they like to start everything in the middle and work their way out, so I asked our guys at halftime to start playing the ball wider and over the top of their last offender and they just didn't do it as much as they should have.

We missed on some opportunities inside early in the ball game. If we get those opportunities early in the game, we're up at halftime by a big margin.

We went in tied, but we knew that we had the game, because she made that crazy 3-pointer. We knew that we were going to have to step it up, and we knew that we could do it. We came back out after halftime pretty confident.

We went in at halftime and it was 20-3. We dug the hole, and at that point, we're pretty good at putting you in and putting the dirt on top of you.

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We felt at halftime we were in pretty good shape. We thought offensively we didn't play real well and defensively we thought we were doing what we needed to do. They just exploded (in the third quarter). With all the weapons they have, they can explode in a hurry. There was nothing we could do.

We felt at halftime that we had to stop Howe. Quisenberry stepped up big for us. He played well for us offensively (10 points) and he really slowed Howe down in the second half.

We felt real good where we were at halftime being up by three with Benny hitting that shot. The second half has been ours all year. The kids have done an excellent job of executing and playing great defense in the second half.

We changed a little bit at halftime and came from the perimeter and that probably had as big an effect as anything we did in the game.

We challenged Timmy at halftime to really get in his face.

We challenged the girls at halftime to step up.

We're very encouraged by our second half, we challenged them at halftime and we weren't very happy and we do we control our own destiny.

We scored some good goals, and then unfortunately, we had a lot of players that wanted to do a lot of things on their own, and the quality of the play dropped. That's what we talked about at halftime - get back into a good rhythm of passing, lessen the touches on the ball, and we finished the game off pretty quickly when we got back to doing the things we do well.

We did a much better job in the second half of getting aggressive. We were a little fatigued or distracted in the first half, there's no doubt. We felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while.

We went into halftime and the coaches made a lot of great adjustments. They called the right plays and we just went out in the second half and tried to make it happen.

Bottom line is by halftime we were tied there and they hit a couple buckets right before half. They jumped on us in a hurry and that's the biggest concern with them. They come out and you look at what they do to teams, they have gigantic first quarters and have them in such a hole that they don't ever recover. But we did a good job of regrouping and responding. I knew if we'd get close there at the half we had a shot to stay with it. You can't give up (that many) points in the first half. That's not the kind of score we wanted.

Everyone that watched the game and knows how I play could tell there was something on my knee, ... I didn't feel as mobile. We took it off at halftime and taped it and it felt a lot better. If I can go without a brace, I'm going to do it.

At that point we were 3-5. At halftime of the Newark Catholic game, we talked about having the energy, the excitement and the enthusiasm and giving the effort it takes to win. In the second half, and despite losing to Johnstown, I started to see those things. Since that point, we won five of our last six and it's not by accident.

At 25-15, it was game over as far as I was concerned. We had an opportunity there after halftime to get some ascendancy but in the end, we made some simple errors.

At this point in the season, there are no excuses. I told the team at halftime to focus on the task at hand. I had to tell them not to focus on the student section or the rest of the crowd.

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England gave us a very difficult match and at halftime I told the players we had a big job to do. France started the second half well but I have to say that penalty save from Fabien boosted us. That was a big psychological blow in our favor.

During halftime we discussed how to improve the crispness of our play. We wanted better passing and better ball movement.

Flannery really hit some big shots the first half. We talked at halftime that we couldn't let him touch the ball.

Everything we do starts with our defense. I started to watch them stand around in the second quarter, so I just challenged them at halftime to dig deep down.

There was a chance after halftime where we could have not played hard. We played hard and got ourselves back in the game by doing what we like to do best.

There's some people up here who are a little upset that he's not going to Penn State. He's only going to get bigger, stronger, and faster. He could have had a lot more statistics if we had been worried about that sort of thing. Several of our games were over at halftime or otherwise his numbers could have been even better.

These are the games that count. We are about due for a win. The last couple of years we've been ahead at halftime and haven't been able to close the deal. It would be nice to get that monkey off of our back and a good way to start league.

(The safety) most definitely turned the game around. We just got ourselves together at halftime and told each other that the game wasn't over.

I've played on teams in the past where we had a really hard problem in the third quarter. We would come out and have a big lead at halftime and in the third quarter we would give it right back. I don't think it's a personality-type thing as a team to come out that way. Certainly it's been frustrating to play from a hole.

It was a little hard staying with our game plan when we were trailing 9-0, but when we went in with the four-point lead at halftime I felt pretty good. We knew we had to keep (Casey) Garrison in check and we did a pretty good job on her.

It was a huge game of runs throughout the game. We talked about putting them away at halftime and they went on a 13-0 run that put us down. It was mostly unforced errors on our part and good play on theirs.

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The third quarter was the key for us. At halftime we felt like we were just one run away from turning the corner on them.

Ryan has been getting down because he hasn't been putting the ball in the net, and at halftime I told him to go out there and just have some fun. And in the second half he went out with a different attitude, and the guy ran onto three goals. And he had to work for them, they weren't given to him. I'm hoping that those three goals will carry over for the rest of the week, because he's definitely someone who, once he gets started, there's no stopping him.

(Ryerson) is one of those kids, he's not quick, but he gets to the basket. We talked at halftime about denying him the basket. I thought (Seth) Stanhope did a nice job on him in the second half.

Personal fouls, sloppy plays and penalties, that's not us. I'm glad we came back and played like us in the second half. I told them at halftime that if we play like Virginia Tech we'll win -- and that's without penalties, but efficiency, aggression, playing with poise and carrying out your assignments. Louisville did a great job. We were lucky to win. We played more like Virginia Tech in the second half and I was proud of that. We gave great effort.

Our energy level tonight was up. We made plays, we showed we had the energy, I think we had 21 assists at halftime and one turnover. Our offense was efficient tonight. We haven't been playing well these last seven games and our offense was the thing hurting us the most. Guys were trying to do everything on their own and we need to get back to trusting our teammates and passing the ball. We weren't paying much attention to detail in these last seven games, but we were better tonight.

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Actually, our adjustment at halftime was to go work the baseline. And Joe got himself free down there so he was more the recipient of all of that. Joe's a very hard worker on the backboard so he gets a lot of shots that look like that he's not doing much, but he's done a lot of the work to get them.

Somebody said to me, 'Well, you went in at halftime and you had nine assists, and you only finished with 10,'

Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more important.

Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.

Defensively, if you hold them to 36 points at halftime you feel like you should be in the game but you're still down 14, and that goes back to us not executing what we really wanted to get done.

Coach talked to us at halftime about when you think about it, one play in a big game, one mental mistake, can cost us. So many of us are so hungry for playing time, we know that coach can easily replace us if we make that mental mistake. I just took it as another learning experience in college basketball. And in the second half, I calmed down. I'm learning to take what they give me.

Coach Johnson gave us a heck of a halftime speech. We just sucked it up decided not to quit.

Coach Hall does a great job of adjusting on game day. He's one of the best I've ever seen. He will come in at halftime and say, 'Look, here are five running plays and six passing plays and we'll do it and win the game.' He sees things very well.

Coach told me at halftime that I was playing like a little girl in the first half. So I knew I had to come out and play harder in the second half. I knew that I had to step up my game.

Coach Donovan told me at halftime to keep shooting.

Coach Chatman said in the locker room at halftime that I didn't have any fouls. To me that meant I wasn't playing aggressive, so I had to go out there and bang.

Coming out of halftime being down just one, instead of us attacking them, they attacked us. Regardless of if they go big, we need to execute. What we run against the zone is fine, we just need to attack it. We didn't attack today.

As bad as we played in the first half, ... you go in at halftime and say, 'Gosh, if we just played decent football, we could've been tied.'

Art got a little ding to his ankle. We put ice on it and taped him up at halftime and he was fine. We decided we would bring him back if we need him; fortunately we didn't. We missed him though because he is a go-to-guy for us. It was a nice test to play without him.

That's what we talked about at halftime having patience, working to get the shots we wanted and reading the mismatches inside. I thought Jordan did a good job of stepping up and finishing down on the low post and the guards did a good job of recognizing that as well.

That's why Leah won the State Farm Good Neighbor Award. She's a great person, a great kid and a great leader. She didn't want to leave the team so she waited until halftime and said her goodbyes. It was tough (losing her).

You've still got to play. I told 'em at halftime if I see somebody out there not playing hard, they won't be out there for long.

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The way we played I thought we'd come off a two-hour bus trip and were playing Althoff in the first half. We just started real slow and never got in the flow of the game. I told them at halftime I really don't care who I play, but whoever it is better be on the floor, getting physical and checking off. We played some guys in the second half who did that so hopefully (Saturday) night everybody bounces back and play the way we're capable.

This had the chance to be a trap game for us. I told the girls at halftime they needed to attack the glass, and we also switched to a man-to-man defense that was key as well.

A lot of credit goes to our offensive line. I told them at halftime to give the running backs a second to get into the holes and that's what happened in the second half. It was a team effort.

Amanda Regis is awarded the game ball. She left the game at halftime with a dislocated elbow and that provided the inspiration for a come-from-behind win for the team.

They must have talked about playing some (defense) at halftime because second half they came out and played a whole different kind of 'D' than we saw in the first half. They were out in the passing lanes ... everything was hard.

They got momentum right away and I really thought our mindset hurt us. We were all of sudden playing not to lose. At halftime we said we need to turn that around and try to be the aggressor.

They got eight offensive rebounds on us in the first half. We talked about it at halftime and did a much better job in that area in the second half.

They got a run to open up a lead right before halftime and then we came out after halftime and cut it to seven, but we turned the ball over a couple of times and let it get back up to 19.

They got all the boards. We just said at halftime we have to stop letting them get those offensive boards. We plan on making it to Saturday's (title) game.

They had the momentum coming out of halftime and we had to get our intensity back.

You can't leave points off the board like that, especially against a team that's going to kill you on the run. They did a good job making adjustments at halftime and slowing us down.

There were times tonight when this team could have folded its tent. We're not as good as we think we are. I told them at halftime that it was gut-check time, that they needed to show what this team was all about. They finally stepped up and made big plays when they needed to. I was very pleased with their enthusiasm and effort at the end.

There were some fluke things early in the game that you usually don't see happen. To be down so early, though, and then come back and lead at halftime tells you something about this football team.

This is what we've done all year. The thing we talked about at halftime was to give ourselves a chance to walk out with our heads held high, and the only way we could do that was giving the maximum effort. The guys did that. After the first half, that's the only thing you can ask for.

This is why we put so much emphasis over and over on winning the regular season. In halftime talks, in late-game situations, we said we want the tournament at our place.

At halftime we were up by 14, and we talked about trying to get up by 24 or 25, or it was going to be a game. We came right out and scored and knew the game was for our taking.

At halftime we were getting outplayed and we talked about taking it up another notch. We had a height advantage and the kids played with a lot of heart.

At halftime we tried to get that fear out of them and we responded.

At halftime we talked about that we weren't moving enough. We didn't come to play in the first half. We came out and picked it up. The defense picked it up big time.

At halftime we talked about some second looks that they had gotten. They're really a scrappy team. I knew we had to go to the boards hard. We discussed that at halftime, and I stressed it quite a bit.

At halftime we talked about rebounding and taking care of the ball. Whoever has the fewer turnovers will win the game.

At halftime we talked about not wanting our season to end. The players stepped up in the fourth quarter, making big play after big play. It is amazing how they willed themselves to the victory. They are definitely a special bunch of players.

At halftime we talked about lack of focus. I thought we did a pretty good job the second half of staying focused.

At halftime we talked about how they had to set a personal goal of getting to ground balls with the mindset that every ground ball belongs to us.

At halftime we talked about giving them a step one on one. Everybody is so worried about giving up a 3. Nobody shoots better than 33 percent (out there).

At halftime we talked about being aggressive. We needed to get more aggressive and get to the free throw line. With our interior players we should get to the free throw line more than we did in the first half.

At halftime we stressed ball control and getting physical.

At halftime we picked up the intensity and took it to them for most of the second half.

At halftime we knew we could make a run at them. Our consistency this season has been terrible. We need to find a way to get ourselves up and be aggressive against every team.

At halftime we just talked about being a little more aggressive and making our shots count. We had opportunities to score in the first half, we just didn't convert.

At halftime we had a little talk. And somehow, we started playing aggressive basketball. I complimented player No. 1 through No. 10 for playing tough in the second half. It was a great team effort.

At halftime we got down on ourselves but we kept talking to the kids telling them to keep their heads up and keep plugging.

At halftime we felt that as long as we are patient and do a good job with possession we could get the goal back. ... When you are down a goal and you're trying to push to get the goal there are going to be situations that will allow the game to open up and that's what happened. You still have to make the defensive plays out of those situations and tonight we didn't.

At halftime we decided we had to get physical with those guys. In the second half I thought we knocked them off their back.

At halftime they were up 10, and then in the second half they just outplayed us and out-muscled us. We got beat in just about every phase of the game. The only thing they did well was they worked hard and hustled, but other than that we didn't do many things well.

At halftime they were talking to each other and disagreeing with each other. This team is alive and it is not down to just one moment of individual skill.

At halftime it was like walking into a morgue. We talked about defense and rebounding. Maybe it's happening because we're playing a lot of kids and we get out of a rhythm on defense.

At halftime I told them we probably didn't want to shoot 22 treys in the second half. But we also had to remember that's what they were giving us.