Susie Gardner Quotations

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

LSU is known for their offense, but they play very good defense. Unfortunately, we've started the last four or five games like we did today.

She was feeling it, but in all honesty, she was in the game because she was playing the best defense on their guards.

She's a new talent, I think, for women's basketball. She is the future. Whoever has Sylvia is going to win a lot of games no matter who else is around. LSU happens to have great talent besides her.

She?s a huge concern. We did an outstanding job on the other guards, but she really hurt us. She sets the tone for their team.

Nobody is going to be harder on Leslie than Leslie. Unfortunately, we don't have that low post player right now we can punch the ball into to get us started.

On one hand, you don?t want every game to down to the wire, but we know that we can win those close games now. Even if things don?t go exactly as they should.

I felt like the kids were prepared and the kids were fired up. We had a lot of energy in the first half. In the second half, we were a different team.

We've got to understand on the road that we've got to rally and play through adversity. We had some huge mistakes at key times.

I thought Whitney played very well, especially considering who she was playing against.

I thought we were going to have another miracle. We fought so hard. We came back from the dead. But we just couldn't finish it out.

I thought we were going to have another miracle.

Lauren has an intense hunger to return to playing Division I basketball. In junior college, she was a team player that focused on her team?s goals first. When we would call to ask about how a game went this year, she was never aware of her own stats, but she knew the score of the game. It was always about her team?s success.

Kristin's season did not go the way anyone hoped. Her departure opens up another opportunity for a player to join next year's team.

Our starters, (Kristin) Moore and (Melissa) Hobbs, did an exceptional job doubling the post early, but we didn't maintain it the whole game.

It didn't feel like a 40-point game. I think we played well for about 30 minutes. The last 10 minutes was a different story. They were just toying with us.

That was a huge shot by Brittany there at the end of the half. That shot gave us the momentum heading into halftime and we were able to build on that.

We couldn't shoot. Nobody could hit a shot. Nobody.

We played as poorly as we could. I'm not taking anything away from Kentucky. That was uncharacteristic and a little bit surprising.

We fought back and played an exceptional second half. I hurt for them because they played hard, but now we've got to get cleaned up, get on the plane and shake it off at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon.

We need to come out with more fire, especially defensively.

Every time J. J. is playing she watches him on T. V.. J. J. has to create his own shot and he's had to adjust to defenses. We set a bunch of screens, but she's got to be able to create her own shot.

We need to get out of the blocks with our offensive game a little better. We?re not scoring quickly enough.

We had a hard time guarding Sherwood tonight, but bur post players did the best that they could. I was especially proud of Melissa's rebounding.

We all know that basketball was a big part of Kristin's college experience, but that her lifelong goal is becoming a doctor. She graduates this spring, and getting her bachelor's degree at Arkansas in only three years is a great accomplishment.

To hold them to only 13 points in the second half is impressive. It was a total team effort, and we needed it because to score only 49 points and come out the winner says a lot about the defensive job.

We weren't in sync in the first half on offense, and we made some poor decisions. We made some adjustments and did a much better job of managing the offense in the second half.

We had the lead at half and we talked about how FIU would not give up, and how they came back from down 15 last night. Give them credit, they never gave up.

We changed it up in the second half and did a great job. They were trying to wind down the clock and shoot with about four seconds left, so we changed to man.

We live and die by the 3-point shot.

Even though we lost to two teams by a lot of points, we still understand that what we did in January is keeping us in the top half of the conference.

Our defense did an outstanding job, but we didn't do a good job of getting our shooters open. We will need to do a much better job with FIU.

Ashley called us during the season and let us know that there was another great player in the state of Mississippi. The two of them took their official visits, and there's been a lot of talk about what 'we' were going to do at Arkansas among the recruits.

As hard as it was to lose to Alabama it was an important step for us. Especially to come back from a huge deficit on the road.

This is embarrassing. To play like this in Little Rock is embarrassing, especially after all the work the city did to put the tournament together.

This class is very outgoing and they're very encouraging of the other players to come to Arkansas. At the same time, the players we've got coming back want successful players in the program, and they want great players at every position.

A lot of folks will look at this and think it was our offense, but we scored 36 points in the first half. It was our defense early that let us down. That was the key. We'd held teams in the SEC to 17, 19 and 22 points, and we gave up 46 in the first half. We dug ourselves into a hole, but it was the defense.

They?re going to try and take us out of our game immediately. Emotionally, we can?t get caught up in that. We have to have confidence that we beat them once, and we can beat them again.

It's even more exciting when you hear it after a great play, when it's more spontaneous... when it just happens because it's the right thing to do or it's the inspired thing to do. Somebody just feels it in their bones that they need to stand up and do that, and then everybody joins in. I think that's when it really hits home.

It?s like they say in golf, you can?t worry about your last bad shot, because the next shot might be a great shot.

It keeps us humble. We know that we?re not good enough to even rest during a single play in practice. And we?re having really good practices right now.

It's disappointing, but we've got to keep our heads up. We played hard and I'm proud of that, but this has been a tough last month of the season.

It was a good win for our program and a needed win for our program. We played solid defense and we rebounded exceptionally well tonight.

It will be fresh on our minds and we can make adjustments. I?d like to play them right now.

There?s two problems right there. And one of them not only can rebound, she?s 6-4.

The kids told me they wanted to press. They were committed to the press. They (Ole Miss) just dribbled right through us.

Their posts played like they've not played all year. That's the best Alabama's played this season.

I'm really proud of the way our team fought, the way we cut it to two in the second half. In my opinion, they played hard enough to win and I'm disappointed for them. Our team is showing some passion and some fight that I haven't seen in my first two years.

I know I get chill bumps, and I'm not about to play.

I really believe these players believe they can beat anybody left on their schedule.

I am not taking anything away from Kentucky. They are a good basketball team that played exceptionally, but we played about as poorly as we could. We played our worst home game of the year.

You can?t zone them because they have too many good shooters up and down their lineup.

The first thing was that we had to win our first road game ever at Mississippi State. This has all been the process of little steps where we find a way to work things out. Step 2 was beating Vanderbilt, a Top 20 team.