North Carolina State University Athletics
Quotebook
3/24/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Connecticut
UConn Coach Geno Auriemma
"The object at this time of the year is to win and play in the next round. That’s a rational way of looking at a situation that was really lousy. I am not happy. They (the players) are not happy. But we are happy we are playing on Monday."
UConn Guard Sue Bird
"We’ve played them before. Takeisha Lewis and Ayana Walker are both two players to watch. The big guys are key to their offense. Our defense has to step-up for the next game."
"I don’t think the way we played in the second half had anything to do with our foul trouble. We just had to play through many of the referee calls."
"We saw a bit of the Tennessee game. I was concentrating on our game but we did hear that Tennessee lost. We used this as motivation."
UConn Forward Swin Cash
"The ending of the first half put a damper on things a bit, but the final outcome of the game is that we won. Now we have to fix whatever we did wrong in the second half and we know we can’t have the same game as we did today."
UConn Guard Diana Taurasi
NC STATE
NC State Coach Kay You
"We have been a great defensive team all year. Defense has been our strength. We started the game a little tight and nervous with our players as a young team. It took awhile to dig in and play great defense."
"It’s something I didn’t want to happen, that’s for sure. We just didn’t play tough enough against (Sue) Bird and (Diana) Taurasi early on. It was a combination of a little nervousness and not realizing how much they would look to shoot if it was open. We knew we could play better defensively than we did in the first half. Offensively, that’s kind of spotty and playing so many young players. We lack depth also. They just executed at the beginning really well. They’ve been here many times and they were ready to play."
"I am really pleased with this team. They work so hard. There is so much they don’t have and their commitment to work hard together is something. I am extremely pleased but saddened and disapopointed to be here now. I mean, two more games and we are in the Final Four. In the second half coming out and not quitting, that really pleased me."
"We are saddened and disappointed now. We are two games away from the Final Four, that is really tough. What is tougher, is when you don’t start and play the first half to your strength – defense. But in the second half, we didn’t give up."
NC State Guard Tynesha Lewis
"We might have exceeded others expectations, but not ours. Just because we lost two players, our expectations didn’t change. It just made us work harder."
NC State Forward Carisse Moody
"For me personally, I was a little tentative coming out. I didn’t let the game come to me. In the second half the middle opened up more for me."
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