Cathy Inglese Quotations

When we weren't turning the ball over, we were doing a nice job of spreading the floor.

We got to the foul line a lot more.

She can shoot. Sarah likes to distribute the ball and get other people to do. But when she's open, she can drive and has the pull up ability. I'm glad she got to show that today.

She came in here on a mission and took that team on her shoulders. She had a hunger to score.

She a very gutsy kid and has great range to get her shots off.

She's a great shooter. We tried to get her shots and she took advantage.

She is a mature kid. I look at her and say hey, here's a kid who can handle that pressure so I can probably put her at the foul line when the game is on the line. Whether she makes them I don't know, but she'll know how to handle that.

Megan is really efficient. She has a command for the game. She directs her team. She brings a really great calmness to her teammates and she also has the ability to score. A scoring point guard makes that person even more dangerous.

I feel rejuvenated. We showed what kind of team we are.

We are familiar with them, but it is a whole new season. When you lose to a team early on you want to get that game back. But I am not looking at it as revenge. We're just looking to beat them and advance.

I thought that if we held them to 57 points that we would have been able to score a little more.

I said, 'Lets be patient, lets tweak a few things,' and I think we did and that's why we've been successful.

Our guys in practice can't even duplicate what they do because they're athletic, they're quicker. You see an opening, it's there, and you've got to thread the needle because they do a really good job of covering a lot of ground.

Our players are looking forward to a fresh start. We didn't finish the regular season the way we would have liked, but after 10 days off we're ready to play other teams instead of ourselves.

I think it will become more common because players are getting more athletic. I think you're seeing strength and conditioning stressed more. Will it be as common as the men's game? No. But it will be more common.

We have to have everyone contribute. That is what is going to make our team successful, that everyone comes to play and play their role.

We were so eager to get out there and play tonight I said to the staff during one of the timeouts that we just need to settle them down and let them know that they have to use every possession they can and not give it away.

We got the exact shots we wanted. That last shot by Brooke was the last play we worked on in practice today. We had three open threes at the end.

We did watch (the tapes) to see how they defended us and what we did that was successful.

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

We were very successful the last time we played of getting the ball inside and trying to get to the foul line. In this game we just didn't get to the foul line. All season when we've been successful we've done that very, very well.

The players were confident coming into today's game. They continued to plug along.

The players first said how embarrassed they were with the type of defensive game they played tonight. Our defense keeps us in games and wins us ball games, keeps us close. We just got out of a rhythm from the start.

We watched those tapes just to see how they played us defensively.

What number was she? No, I'm kidding. She's outstanding. I don't know if that was the best game of her career or not, but I think she had that hunger to get the basket and score.

We talked about it at the half, that we had too many turnovers, that we need to be smarter with the ball. Not to be cautious, but be smarter with our passes and come hard to the ball. There's going to be a lot of slapping and reaching, some of it may be called or not be called, but we had to be more aggressive with the ball.

We just had a tough schedule. What we went through in our conference made us ready for whatever was going to come.

We certainly want to play in Boston. But right now, it's New Mexico.

Virginia did a nice job closing us down in the second half. It was a hard-fought game, but I was disappointed the last four or five minutes in some of the turnovers.

Duke showed why they're the No. 2 team in the country the last five, six minutes. We had a few shots that weren't falling at the end of the game.

I've been looking at film all this afternoon and will look at more on the plane (last night). We'll think of a game plan to handle her.

That's why she's a great player. She comes in at the end of games and does what's necessary.

They're in the same conference and they've played here. Will that be an advantage? Probably. But we didn't really talk about that to the players. We don't want to give them an out. Those are things we can't do anything about.

It's hard not to focus on Jess because you've got to neutralize her as best you can. At the same time, they've got good guard play. You can't take away everything, so hopefully you take away the bigger parts.

It was nice to get the home win versus Virginia, and now our first ACC road game, it gives us confidence to get back into the race and continue on our roll.

It was a great win. Our seniors wanted to continue this tradition of going to the Sweet 16 and it showed out there on the court.

That's all we heard is we lost five in a row. All we worked on was our execution on defense.

I'm extremely pleased with the victory. I think it showed the kind of team we are. We don't have just one or two players putting up points.

I know they feel they can play with those teams, and I think they really feel like they can win them. We just have to be smarter at the end.

I had a feeling (the NCAA) would put us against a Big East team.

In these games, it's not about being an underdog. It comes down to one game and who's going to execute their game plan.

I just had a feeling they might do that to make it more exciting.

Aja did what she does well, shooting the ball and cutting to the basket.