North Carolina State University Athletics
Quotebook
3/23/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
North Carolina vs. Connecticut Quotes:
North Carolina State
North Carolina State Head Coach Kay Yow
"Obvously, it’s exciting for us to be one of the sweet 16 teams. I’m just really happy for them to have what they have inside themselves to make it to this point. At the mid-point of the season I told them that they had to win six games for us to get into the NCAA tournament. They went out and won seven in a row. They are a blue collar team in that they have to work so hard. I am happy for the players and the program."
"For young people if they haven’t experienced it, it’s hard to get it through. I want my players motivation to come from the inside. I’m just not a motivation from external factors person. Personally, for me, it was the 1991 loss that did it for me. That was the worst loss in my career."
"Can you believe we are playing in Pittsburgh? Swin Cash is from here, how did that happen? We recruited her. There is nothing about her as a player that isn’t a problem for us. And I’m sure she is the type of person that will have a lot of people cheering for her. Hopefully our girls will think some of that cheering is for them. I’m sure our people respect her and their other great players."
"We definitely need to be focused, determined, and ready. If not we don’t have a chance when they tip it up."
North Carolina State Guard Tynesha Lewis
"Overcoming the injuries we have says a lot about our character and our coach. We’ve seen how much Coach Yow has been through and how strong she has remained. The loss of Kaayla (Chones) and Terah (James) was a big lossbut we will do the things necessary to get to the next level. We have to stay together and play as a team. Everyone must step up."
North Carolina State Forward Carisse Moody
"We plan to switch up our defense to try and confuse them and attack every aspect of their game. Our defense has been our key and scoring and been a problem this year but we’re working on our scoring."
"Coach has been a great influence on us. There are so many personal experiences she has overcome and seeing this has helped out. When Terah James and Kaayla Chones went down a lot of people wrote us off. We had to step-up and take different roles."
Connecticut
Uconn Head Coach Geno Auriemma
"At this time of year you have a couple of ways which you can go. You either go out there and break down everything that NC State does and then if you win, you have one day to figure out somebody you don’t know, or you can spend three days just fine-tuning all of the things that you have done all year. And that is the way that we choose to approach our off-season regardless of who we’re playing. We spend as much time as we possibly can working on our stuff and then today and tomorrow we focus on who we are playing."
"It has been 25 years and Kay Yow and NC State are synonymous. I don’t remember what NC State was before Kay Yow got there. I don’t know who the coach was, I don’t know if they were any good. Kay Yow is NC State."
"I hope we have 10,000 people cheering for us tomorrow. Our fans our just unbelievable. We’ve had a couple of instances where we’ve played road games that felt like home games. I think that sometimes bothers the other team."
"I just kind of let kids figure things out for themselves. Swin is not going to have a problem with this. It is like this every time we play in Pittsburgh, so she’s had a chance to deal with that. Swin is also the type of player that when the game starts she doesn’t get bogged down with anything but playing. I expect her to play great."
Uconn Guard Sue Bird
"Svet and Shea are still a big part of this team. They’re still our leaders and captains, and it definitely hurts us to see them on the sidelines instead of on the court."
"We approach everything knowing that there is a bulls-eye on our back, but that’s what you get when you’re at Connecticut. Everybody we play takes their best shot at us, so we can’t take anybody lightly. That makes us a better team."
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