“It might impact us a little, but as a school you can't let it bother you. The bottom line is that if we play well, people will come out and see us. It doesn't matter all that much who we are playing, like I said, if we win football games, the fans will come out.”
“When we play the bigger schools, it tends to elevate her game. We'll play teams that come in and say, 'Oh, they're just a Class A school,' Then, they realize we're here to play and this won't be a cakewalk.”
“She's picked all those areas up. Her scoring is pretty much where it was, but there is more of her going to the hoop and the foul line. She's really picked up her defense and rebounding.”
“We definitely missed Brittany, but I thought the kids really responded well and put together a nice, solid basketball game. We started a little sluggish in the first quarter and that's to be expected because we only found out at 4 o'clock before the game that Brittany would not play.”
“It's the hand that's dealt us and they have to play us too, so it's a two-way street whether or not they have more motivation than we do and I don't think so. The championship is on the line and, if we have to go out there two, three or four times, we have to beat them and they feel the same way about us.”
“You have to really stay focused. One of the things that helped us get to this point is that people really played us tough all year. We had to play the best we could to face the challenges of the regular season.”
