Tony DiCecco Quotations

We tried to challenge the front of the rim on every possession. But we had our hands full and it's hard to beat a team three times in a season.

There are two games that really stand out to me as memories from the West Gym and that upset win over Iowa State was one. The fire marshall was a little upset with us that night.

One of the things about defending Drake is you have to defend them as a team.

I would be very surprised if coaches don't discuss this at great length. We have to make sure it's an equal playing field.

We just have to find a way to take care of the ball better. Everybody's just trying to pressure the daylights out of us. We knew we'd turn the ball over because they're so good, but we didn't think we'd turn it over that much.

We've earned the right to take it to the next level.

I think we're a very legitimate team for a WNIT (spot). I think a lot will depend on who ends up winning our league. Last year, with the upset of Illinois State winning the championship, all of a sudden that bumped everybody down one. We kind of were the odd man out.

I think we have a really good team. I think it's a team that causes and creates problems for people who play us.

I think it's time. We've now put ourselves in a position where it's best that we go with a neutral site because there are so many good teams in our league right now.

Our league is legit. You have to respect everybody.

That was one of the greatest thrills we've had here. It was just a monumental win for our program.

We just allowed them back in the game. . We missed a lot of free throws.

We really tried to challenge the front of the rim. And we didn't shoot like we usually do. But, you know, a lot of times we'll shoot it well, but we're 8-of-8 or 9-of-10. That's eight or nine points. Tonight, we got 27 points at the line.

We have to capitalize when teams turn it over. It's important when you take control because it's very demoralizing.

We've had some good wins, and I thought we did a good job against Iowa and Iowa State. We need to make another jump. We have to become a consistent offensive team. We have to score from the outside on a consistent basis and not just rely on getting the ball inside to score.

This was a very, very, very physical game, and it's hard to officiate when it gets like that.

We just talked about Cassie's entire role; it's just not on offense or defense. She played one of her better defense positioning games.

There's no question that trying to get the highest bid is always good.

There's no question that Cassie is our backbone. She knows what we need.

There were about four situations in first half and three times in the second half where we really had to respond. I really thought our players stepped up and made the plays they had to.

They're a much, much different team now. They've really been playing well together.

There's a part of our program that's leaving that basically may be impossible to replace. We were able to do an awful lot because of the things she brought us.

It was a very disappointing loss. We didn't do what we needed to do down the stretch for us to win the basketball game. Creighton did.

It's a bracket that we feel good with, because we feel we can compete with all those teams, but we're also catching two teams in that bracket that are probably playing as well as anybody in our league right now.

It's always hard, but the way the process is going, if you don't react to it and stay ahead of the curve, you'll fall behind.

Tara's game changed a little bit. The foul trouble caused her to be a little apprehensive.

Tara King is really on her game right now. We still need to get a couple more perimeter players to knock down shots for us, but Tara did a great job of hitting some big ones.

I'll go out on a huge limb and say that it won't be 30. I would be really surprised if it's 30. It will be a really good game and with the support this community has for the Lady Bears, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't 8,000 fans here.

You can see why both teams are in the place they're at in the league.