Harry Perretta Quotations

We feel a lot better after winning yesterday. The win at Notre Dame gave us breathing room. The last two games we have put together our best basketball. At Notre Dame, we played very well for 30 of 45 minutes. Yesterday, we played well for 36 out of 40 minutes.

She can score all kinds of different ways - inside, outside - and she's a very, very good passer.

Obviously, Connecticut and Rutgers are still the two best teams, but I think after that, everybody has played well enough that on a given day they can beat somebody. I think you have a lot of teams that have a chance to win if they get on a hot streak over the next four days.

Obviously, Connecticut and Rutgers are still the best teams but the middle group has dramatically improved. Our three through 12 are better than anyone's in the country.

I looked up at the scoreboard and we had 81 points and we were never in the game.

I feel like I coached about 50 games too many.

I don?t remember the last time that happened. I looked up at the scoreboard and we had 81 points and were never in the game. That is a tribute to how well they played.

If we play as good as we can play and they play as good as they can play, we can't beat them. We have to play extremely well and them not as well.

I thought coming into the game that we would have trouble guarding them off the dribble because they were just too fast for us. And we did, so we tried to play some zone and they shot the ball well from the perimeter, so we got caught between a rock and a hard place. Once we lose the lead and have to play fast it is very difficult for us to win. We don?t score the ball at a high level.

You came out hard and then you stopped playing after seven minutes. You?re taught to tell the truth here.

We play a little bit of a different style than most teams. If we can get things together at the end, I think we can do pretty well.

What we tried to do was keep someone in the lane so when she drives we can always meet her with a second defender, so we try to force her to beat us over the top. It's nothing different than we've done in the past. I just think she didn't shoot the ball as well today.

We're never a good rebounding team, and that doesn't concern me. We try and spread the floor as much as we can because we're not that athletic. We can't pound the ball down your throat, but we hope to confuse you a little.

When you play well everything goes your way. When she shot the ball I said to (assistant coach) Joe (Mullaney) that it was going to go in. You can say it was a little luck, but when you play well, things go your way. They created that.

We were telling our kids to keep running the offense and to try to wear them out a bit because they don't really have a deep bench.

We've played well the last two games. But we don't see defenses like we'll see at Rutgers. We always have problems getting shots, and they turn us over more than most because of their quickness. Plus it's up there. It's going to be difficult.

I've been coaching 28 years, and with this team I never know what's going to happen. When we were up 21, I was sweating. Notre Dame is like us, inconsistent offensively. Teams get into offensive funks.

The teams coming into this league are really good, and that is a positive and a negative. They are going to affect the middle of the league. You will see a team finish fifth that will be 8-8 or 9-7 in the conference where before we finished tied for fourth and we were 10-6. That's a big difference.

They don't have a lot of size, but they are quick. With their quickness, they are going to be able to beat a lot of teams and move up in the conference.

This league is nuts. It makes for a fun league, but it doesn't make for people feeling comfortable making the NCAA Tournament.

It?s a big deal. Even though he plays it down, it?s a big deal.

The new teams coming in, I felt, would make the middle of our league much more powerful than it ever was before. And I think that's been proven this year. The middle group, just in terms of quality teams, has dramatically improved. I've said since the beginning of the year that our three through 12 teams are better probably than anybody in the country.

The middle part of the league now is going to be so competitive. It is a bad thing record-wise, but it is a good thing for RPI.

Their press forced us to rush in the second half. It changes the whole game when they are able to press and push the tempo on offense.

In this league, this year, you have seven or eight dark horses. I felt the new teams would make the middle of our league much more powerful than ever before, and I think that's been proven. That's where it has improved our league. It's not top-heavy.