Susie Gardner
Susie Gardner
build gave halftime heading huge momentum shot
That was a huge shot by Brittany there at the end of the half. That shot gave us the momentum heading into halftime and we were able to build on that.
defense dug early folks gave held ourselves points teams
A lot of folks will look at this and think it was our offense, but we scored 36 points in the first half. It was our defense early that let us down. That was the key. We'd held teams in the SEC to 17, 19 and 22 points, and we gave up 46 in the first half. We dug ourselves into a hole, but it was the defense.
came gave half last lead talked
We had the lead at half and we talked about how FIU would not give up, and how they came back from down 15 last night. Give them credit, they never gave up.
anyone departure join next opens opportunity player season
Kristin's season did not go the way anyone hoped. Her departure opens up another opportunity for a player to join next year's team.
hit nobody
We couldn't shoot. Nobody could hit a shot. Nobody.
bit played poorly taking
We played as poorly as we could. I'm not taking anything away from Kentucky. That was uncharacteristic and a little bit surprising.
doubling job maintain moore post
Our starters, (Kristin) Moore and (Melissa) Hobbs, did an exceptional job doubling the post early, but we didn't maintain it the whole game.
last minutes played
It didn't feel like a 40-point game. I think we played well for about 30 minutes. The last 10 minutes was a different story. They were just toying with us.
cleaned fought hurt plane played second shake tomorrow
We fought back and played an exceptional second half. I hurt for them because they played hard, but now we've got to get cleaned up, get on the plane and shake it off at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon.
keeping motivational opponent preparing routine
We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.
adversity huge key mistakes rally road understand
We've got to understand on the road that we've got to rally and play through adversity. We had some huge mistakes at key times.
energy felt fired kids prepared second
I felt like the kids were prepared and the kids were fired up. We had a lot of energy in the first half. In the second half, we were a different team.
defensive half hold needed points says score second team total winner
To hold them to only 13 points in the second half is impressive. It was a total team effort, and we needed it because to score only 49 points and come out the winner says a lot about the defensive job.
changed clock four great half second seconds shoot trying wind
We changed it up in the second half and did a great job. They were trying to wind down the clock and shoot with about four seconds left, so we changed to man.