I told her in the locker room after the game, I said ‘You should feel terrible, you wasted away about 10 games of your college career. She got more accomplished tonight than she did in...

You don’t lose a championship and forget about it. Right now, we’re 0-1. That’s the way I look at it. We had a chance to win the regular season championship and we didn’t do it....

They’re a good team. They’re able to do some things defensively that are hard to deal with because they’re really quick, strong and well-coached.

My hope is that sometime in the next 24 hours, we play as close to our ability as we can. I wouldn’t be at all disappointed if around 11:30 [Tuesday night], I’m saying that’s the...

You can’t gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.

When Megan was a freshman, it wasn’t that difficult (to guard her) because she didn’t know the ins and outs of getting other people involved. Now that she’s a senior, it’s difficult because she knows...

Playing at Louisville, at DePaul, at Villanova, at Notre Dame, at Texas, and we’re going to go to Rutgers… I think we’ve had the toughest stretch of anybody else in the league. And for us...

They need like a 10-second shot clock. Thirty seconds is way too long for them.

I think because of Diana (Taurasi playing for the Mercury), circumstances are different in this one, … Maybe people sense that the climate is different at Connecticut than it was in the past.

As it should be. As it should be.

They stood around and wondered how we were going to win this game tonight. Then, something clicked. I don’t know if we could have won this game four, five months ago.

Just when I wanted to get rid of her, now I don?t want the season to end.

When I look back, that’s probably the one thing that I’m going to remember more than anything, not so much the championships, the wins, but I think we made the Big East take women’s basketball...

Obviously, you can?t discount how much (Diana) meant because nobody?s ever meant more to any team than Diana has meant to this group of kids. So if you want to compare them to Diana, they...

We’re 18-2 and it doesn’t feel that way. I don’t feel overly comfortable or ecstatic. I just like where we are right now, but I know that there’s a lot in front of us, so...

It’s easier to fix the plays at the end because they are one-shot deals. What got us 13 down is a little bit harder to fix. I’d have disappointed if it went from 13 to...

In these types of pressure environments, I got to tell you, I’m really, really happy for these two in particular. This is as much of a complete game as we’ve had in a long, long...

I think this was as complete a game on both ends of the floor as we’ve had in a while. These guys are really committed right now to keep playing for as long as we...

We played pretty good defense and took good care of the ball and got people involved in offense that we wanted to get involved. We got the right shot at the right time. We accomplished...

At this time of year, everything is about confidence. About your ability to make the play that needs to be made at the time it needs to be made. That’s everything at this time of...

I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a manager would send a pitcher ahead to the next city to wait for his team....

She’s very good under pressure. She’s not bothered by it. I knew she was going to make those free throws.

It’s a reminder to ourselves that as good as we can be at times, as good as we can look for long stretches, we’re not all there. We’re not completely there, mentally or physically.

If (Barbara) was a building after what she has been through, they would have condemned her long ago.

As it should be. When you’ve played here the longest, you should have a pretty good idea what to do. If you’re going to be a good team, you have to do that.

Barbara said she knew the shot was in when it left her hand. She’s [fibbed] to me many times the last four years. But that’s the biggest one I’ve heard.

I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew we would have to play a lot better than we did there. Our post players...

Our defense bails us out a lot of times. Say what you will about both Rutgers games and how bad we were offensively, we had a chance to win. I used to have teams that...

All in all I’m not surprised by anything that happens in the tournament. It’s not going to be easy. It’s not supposed to be easy.

(The medical staff) doesn’t want to rush her back. She did it once. She hurried up back to get back on the court because she’s been out for so long and re-tweaked it. So now...

We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it’s not out of the realm of possibly to do that. We’ve got all the ingredients. It’s just a matter of...

She is assembling a really great cast here. She is taking young players and playing them. Once they are older they will know how to play together. Pitt accomplished more (yesterday) then we did.

She’s making a real case for being the starting point guard, … She makes shots and she makes plays. She’s assertive. Part of being a really good player is acting like one. She acts like...

I don’t even remember who the coach was before Sue. LSU and Sue became one and the same.

In the second half, we really got inside them and really attacked and created a lot of those fouls.

I’m just happy she’s been able to have the kind of year, and her team has had the kind of year they’ve had. Tina desperately wants to win. She loves winning more than anything else....

Look at last year’s tournament and see who did what.

As I look at stuff like this I say to myself, it’s kind of odd because you always think of coaching as an opportunity for your players to stand up their on that podium and...

Renee Montgomery had maybe the best game she’s had since she’s been at Connecticut. And I told her (Monday) she should transfer. I asked her, ‘How does Mel Thomas have more steals than you? You’ve...

It’s never easy to lose and it’s especially difficult to lose if there’s a conference championship at stake. So there’s a tremendous amount of frustration right now and it’s going to take us a while...

I think there are a lot of teams that are going to make the NCAA tournament that are not as good as Texas. With their conference, they have a chance to play some really good...

I don’t care if you have the best team in the country or are Cinderella, this is the hardest game to play in that you’ll ever play in. The goal for most people is to...

It’s interesting when you know somebody when they’re 17 and they come out of high school and spend some time with them on the college level. I remember the Duke game was one of the...

This was probably the biggest win we’ve had this season because of all the things that go with it. Conference game, we’re still in first place, on the road against a team that’s going to...

When you lose this game, there’s nothing worse. There’s nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get...

They?re a good team. They?re able to do some things defensively that are hard to deal with because they?re really quick at every position, they?re strong, they?re really well-coached.

This time of the year, it’s individual players who make the difference. Your style of play, your system as a program gets you to this point and then individual players end up deciding the outcome...

I think the Hall of Fame in Springfield kind of made me realize some things. … There’s a lot of people in the Hall of Fame that are dead. So what does being in the...

In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 games, there’s 6,000 people waiting to meet you at the airport when you go home....

I know we didn’t win the regular season, but I don’t know how finishing second was all that great when you have to get the winner of South Florida-Notre Dame in the first round. I’m...