Aaron Johnston Quotations

She's a really good spot-up 3-point shooter. We needed all of them. We just didn't have much else going.

This was one of our better (games) for 40 minutes. I thought we were really tough tonight, really smart.

I thought from beginning to end, that was a very complete game. We've had complete games in terms of our intensity and focus before, but we haven't necessarily done it on offense and defense.

I thought their defense was very disruptive. That zone does a good job of taking you out of what you're comfortable with.

I thought she was really forcing shots offensively. When her shot selection is good, she doesn't miss many shots. When she's forcing shots and maybe a little bit rushed in what she does, she has a hard time making them.

It feels good and bad. It's nice to get three wins in a row, but I also felt like in some of the areas, we took a little bit of a step backward tonight.

We had very good leadership. We had the kind of intangibles that we needed to have in order to be good, which is the extra effort, and a lot of hustle.

We are inexperienced, and I think some of that has to do with being young. But I was pleased (Thursday) because I didn't sense that we were inexperienced. The only way you knew that was to look at the roster.

We are not getting the results I would like from our defense. We have to do a better job of guarding the basketball on the perimeter.

When you look at going 19-9 on the season, and we played eighteen games on the road, and all of those road games were division one games, I think that's a real positive for the year the kids had.

When Lorenz plays well, their team is difficult to beat. They have very good players around Lorenz, but she's the one who gets them sparked. When she's on, it puts them at ease.

Our defense was really good. Andrea hit a three to get us going early in the game, and from there we just kept playing pretty solid.

Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.

Defensively I thought we played pretty well. We're going to need to play much better as the schedule reaches the mid-February point, and hopefully our team understands that.

It's not only last year -- this goes back to a lot of good games we've had with the Bison the last few years. Obviously, we didn't feel like we played really well in Brookings last year.

I don't necessarily feel that we need to have it as a conference - I don't need a conference mug or letterhead with a conference logo. It's getting a competitive schedule, a balanced schedule, and creating some awards and recognition that all players in independent basketball should get.

I don't necessarily feel that we need to have it as a conference -- I don't need a conference mug or letterhead with a conference logo. It's getting a competitive schedule, a balanced schedule, and creating some awards and recognition that all players in independent basketball should get.