Sharon Fanning Quotations

Focus was our main concern. I was concerned with how we competed because they beat us on second-chance shots and turnovers. That's a result of not being focused. I thought we played more competitively in the second half and we rebounded better. Their transition buckets in the first half hurt us. We just didn't do our job. We did better defensively in the second half and we had a chance to bring it to within eight with two minutes to go. You have to make plays and play defense. We just didn't get it done.

It's a matter of focus. You just have to take good shots and make the rebounds, and that's what we're looking to do.

Rebounding is why we were in the game. When you are a smaller team, you have to block out.

I was pleased with our fight. Part of the process of learning to win is learning to scrap.

I give credit to Georgia. They put a lot of pressure on the ball and it takes people out of offensive position.

Parker adds a whole other dimension. Candace is a player that can play straight up, any position on the floor, and she knows how to direct traffic.... She's sort of a finesse type that can muscle and bang around the bucket. She's going to be a special player in the (SEC).

To the girls' credit, we fought back hard and put ourselves in a position to win the game. If we play the way we did today, we will get better.

That really has not been our focus. It has not been a concern all season long. That certainly has been more of a concern for the media.

We dug ourselves into a little hole by shooting such a poor percentage.

They have won six of their last seven and are playing really hot right now. We lost our composure and fight a couple of times during the game and they made some runs.