Suzy Merchant Quotes (24 Quotes)

I thought it was a collective effort, but we did a nice job of getting to that kid.

We didn't do a very good job of defending dribble-drives tonight and I think we're better than that.

This is one of the best teams we've played. That team should be in the NCAA Tournament and it's a tragedy they're not.

I think they had the emotional edge on us for sure and I thought they did a great job coming out of the gates and proving they wanted to win this one.

I wrote all of the letters myself. I made every single call myself. I went to all of her AAU summer games.

I anticipated it being every bit the fight that it was today.

This is never an easy place to play, and they're an emotional team, and if they get it going just a little bit, it just seems to me, watch out. They can really do some damage.

We tried to make changes, bring in different people to move the ball up the court but we only have one point guard.

I thought (Deville) came in and got to the foul line a lot. It seemed like every time we subbed, they went right at that kid.

I thought the biggest thing was our bench. We had a nice balance besides Ryan and Nikki and our starters.

I didn't realize it was six years. That's pretty brutal.

I think every kid on our team was in foul trouble. That was disappointing.

I give Bowling Green credit. I think they're a very, very good basketball team and there's a reason why they're 17-2. They're a great team.

The story was the turnovers, we turned it over 26 times.

Van's had two back-to-back really good games against Ball State, and I thought her energy level is really something we could feed off of.

She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.

I give Kent State a lot of credit. Shearer came out and was not gonna lose and those two seniors Shearer and Malika Willoughby really stepped it up.

We're going to have our hands full in the first round. I hope our emotional spirit comes back a little bit stronger than it was tonight.

I think when you become a really good team, that every time you take the floor, you don't care who you're going against. I think our kids have that mindset.

In the second half we could not handle the pressure. We couldn't run anything and did not have an answer for their player of the year.

The player of the year was no question the player of the year in the second half. We didn't have an answer for her.

I certainly thought we got really good minutes from both of them, and they had to play a lot of minutes for us, Ryan did especially.

I thought our kids did a great job of coming mentally and physically prepared for this game.

Reading their quotes, we knew they were mad. We were victim No. 1.