Kathy Lanter Quotations

I even told Theresa this, it was a pleasure to coach against her these past four years. She can do everything.

I always felt like we were the underdogs. The girls just rose to the occasion. The girls never felt intimidated. We had some pretty good success. We put a lot of points on the board and it was really fun and challenging.

I said from that very first time that it gets in your blood. What's so special is you get to share it with a different set of girls now. That's what is so special.

Sure, it's disappointing, but I'm not disappointed in the effort. We got down too much in the first half and they hit some big 3's. We had to fight back the whole time. I think we were a little fatigued as well.

Jill would get bumped or hit and buckle over at the waist. She just didn't handle the contact very well. Now, she thrives on it. She's the one going through a screen with her shoulder down. She's more the intimidator, the physical presence, than other teams. She likes the physical game now.

Man, we had some opportunities there. We battled back and we never quit. To be down by that much and have an opportunity to win the game with under 10 seconds, that says a lot for the girls and how well we played defense at the end.

I think they have the size to match-up with us.

I think they have the size to match up with us. I thought their guard play was very aggressive. They match up with us well.

Kelly and Jill are quite a pair inside. We all read how they came back from 16 down with three minutes to play to win the sectional, so we knew we couldn't let up.

Tiffany is shooting the ball really well right now. You guys were saying if somebody stepped up and hit the outside shot it would make a difference in the game, and she did today.

We want to go to Jill in that situation, but they just did a good job of collapsing on her.

We ask Jill to do so much. She doesn't just have to score. She has to guard the perimeter, she has to help us break the press, she has to play outstanding defense.

We're going to go to our strengths, and we are going to go inside. It's no surprise to anybody what we're going to do, and we're going to keep doing it.

We've really had a rough couple of months of basketball and it's been tough and draining. I'm very proud of the girls because they've persevered. They've come out ready to play every night and they haven't had a letdown.

That's good for our confidence. That's what we need to do to keep them from packing it in. We just have to be able to shoot the ball.

They shot the ball extremely well in the first half. We got into a hole and got behind because they shot the ball so well. On the other end, we missed too many easy shots in my opinion.

I knew they were going to have their hands full with Kelly. You can double-team her or triple-team her, but she's going to be a hand full. She made some nice moves.

I'm really happy with the season. The girls battled all season. We're happy with second place. We're the second-best team in the state and we're proud of that.

I'm just so proud of the way she's handling all this this year. That's a lot to put on a kid's shoulders. I know her dad is just so proud of her, because Jill was his baby girl.

That's all we'll see, and that's all we have been working against.

At the end of the game, we wanted it in her hands on the free-throw line. It's just smart basketball. We're a veteran club and Amy knows just to go right to Tiffany. We have to play smart basketball at this time.

I guess we'll have to approach practice like we won't have her, and we'll be with four guards now.

I really hope not. Now it's going to have more of a Final Four atmosphere. Maybe we can gear it toward that. Make it to the Final Four like the NCAA does and still have a lot of prestige and honor behind it.

I haven't mentioned anything to the girls, but I remember that well. Hopefully tonight, maybe we can reverse the tables.

It was a bad one. We're going to try to get through Thursday, that's what we are really pushing for.

These kids haven't won a regional championship. Only a few of the seniors were involved when they were freshman. This is an exciting time for them.

They're playing awfully well. They're shooting so well. They're just not missing.

I'd rather have her a little more healthy for the sectional, if we can get there.

I don't think there's any favorite. You're in the Elite Eight. Being the favorite really doesn't matter. You have to go up there and execute. It's that simple.