We used that as motivation. We came into this tourney wanting a chance to play S.C.
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We have only eight home games all season, so we've had to learn to play on the road. We're not scoring much, but we're hanging around (the .500 mark). It would be really exciting for such an inexperienced team to make the tourney. We've talked about finishing strong.
The bench really gave us a boost, and sometimes you need that, they brought energy to the game. Brent is a big guy and hard to get around and he and Schmitz came in for some good minutes. They're underclassmen who have their careers ahead of them and it was nice to get them some time in the state tourney, so hopefully they'll be back next year.
I saw 10 kids working together for a common cause and that's the big thing we've been preaching going into sectionals. Now it's time for us to continue that effort. I told them those last two minutes is what tourney basketball is all about. We've got to have that effort for 32. If we do that, we'll be in good shape.
This particular tournament will become a prestigious competition as it is the only one of its kind where all teams are seeded as opposed to schools being placed into pools for their matches. As this tourney moves forward, it will be a stellar event for the 32 schools selected to play in it each year.
We want to put ourselves in good position to make the NCAA tourney and there's no better weekend to start than right now.
We won't play like we need to win (to make the NCAA tourney). We'll try to play with heart. We'll leave everything out on the court.
They wanted to do well at this tourney so they went in focused and took care of business.
At the tip-off tourney at the start of the year (a 58-53 Trinity win) we had Holt on Cox, only we had her play five feet away. This time we put her on top of her. We tried to make Cox work both ways (offense and defense) and sometimes that can have an affect.
I said last year they were going to make the Final Four. This year, I know they're going to make it to the Elite Eight just by the way they play, the style of play they play. They're still a tough team. Hopefully, we'll see them again in the Big Ten tourney, but they're a good team.
I'm just tickled to death because last year we got to this point and didn't get it done. We've got one more game. We talked about five steps (in the state tourney) and we've made two of them. We'd like to make five steps. Hopefully we can do it.
I think we're in pretty good shape. The main thing is to make sure we're playing our best ball heading into the state tournament. We can't control what other teams do. Obviously, if we win out we're in the state tourney.
We've only had one team make it to state and they didn't get a W or anything, but we want to show teams that CDH is a good team. There's no better place to do that than the state tourney.
I'd like to improve on our record and how far we go in the America East tourney. But I'd also like to see an improvement of skills and create an exciting vibe at Stony Brook. I expect great things this year. We have a young group of ladies with a lot of potential and who are not afraid to try something new.