Suzy Merchant Quotations

We're going to have our hands full in the first round. I hope our emotional spirit comes back a little bit stronger than it was tonight.

We're just happy to be still alive in March. I'll just keep it that simple.

She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.

She did a nice job. I certainly felt like she definitely got us rolling there in the second half when we were a little flat.

I anticipated it being every bit the fight that it was today.

I give Bowling Green credit. I think they're a very, very good basketball team and there's a reason why they're 17-2. They're a great team.

I don't think we played our best game, but we just found a way to get it done.

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

I thought (Deville) came in and got to the foul line a lot. It seemed like every time we subbed, they went right at that kid.

I think when you become a really good team, that every time you take the floor, you don't care who you're going against. I think our kids have that mindset.

I thought the biggest thing was our bench. We had a nice balance besides Ryan and Nikki and our starters.

I thought our kids did a great job of coming mentally and physically prepared for this game.

I think Bowling Green really came out and came after us and we didn't handle that very well.

I think they had the emotional edge on us for sure and I thought they did a great job coming out of the gates and proving they wanted to win this one.

I thought it was a collective effort, but we did a nice job of getting to that kid.

I'm still a little perplexed at Carrie Moore and Casey Rost. If we see them again, certainly, we're going to have to figure out a way to stop those kids.

We didn't do a very good job of defending dribble-drives tonight and I think we're better than that.

We didn't get a lot of production out of our point guard position.

We had a couple kids that got away from us and we need to do a better job defensively on those kids.

We tried to make changes, bring in different people to move the ball up the court but we only have one point guard.

Van's had two back-to-back really good games against Ball State, and I thought her energy level is really something we could feed off of.

BG really came out and came after us, and we didn't handle it very well. There's a reason why they're 17-2.

The story was the turnovers, we turned it over 26 times.

Reading their quotes, we knew they were mad. We were victim No. 1.

I fully expect every game we play from here on out to be a war and a possession-by-possession game.

I didn't realize it was six years. That's pretty brutal.

I certainly thought we got really good minutes from both of them, and they had to play a lot of minutes for us, Ryan did especially.

I certainly felt like our kids did a really nice job of making sure the shooters didn't get good looks.

This is never an easy place to play, and they're an emotional team, and if they get it going just a little bit, it just seems to me, watch out. They can really do some damage.