Marissa Coleman Quotations

Now we're the first (Maryland) team in the final game.

She's always whistling. We joke that she should do it professionally, and she's very good at it. At times, it gets annoying. All the time in the room, she's in there whistling.

She was yelling at me because of the emotions of the game, but it was a positive thing. She said, 'We need you for this win. Don't worry about your turnovers or not making your shots. You're going to hit a key basket for us, so put a smile on your face and go out and play the game you've been playing for so long.

Maryland is a great team and we're not going anywhere for a long time.

I was just trying to help my team out. I just wanted to get that win. It was a very exciting environment.

I think that makes us better because we have nothing to lose. We just go out there and have fun.

Overtime is our time. What a better way to win a national championship than in overtime, which was our time all season long?

It came down to the hustle plays and not boxing out on their second chance points.

Yesterday was a rough game for me. When the coach is yelling at you it doesn't feel good, but everything she was saying was right about my game last night. I wasn't crashing the glass and I wasn't helping my team out. So today I wanted to do all those things.

Whoever asks to go on the date should pay.

We were making careless mistakes that were uncharacteristic of this team. Coach B said, 'Where's the team I've been coaching all year? When are they going to show up?' We took that to heart.

We were a little nervous, but not concerned. We have been in that position many times. We knew if we played Maryland basketball, we would win the game.

When Kristi hit that shot, the whole team went crazy. Every single player in the huddle said that overtime is our time.

When Kristi hit that shot, we all went crazy in the huddle. Overtime is our time.

We kept pounding it in to her and they couldn't stop her. Our energy was up from the tip and we intimidated our opponent. We kept it going all game.

We both didn't have our best games yesterday. We had to bring it today because our team was going to need us more for this game.

We fed off her energy. We tried to keep pounding it to her. They couldn't stop her.

We knew they were going to go on their runs. The game was a game of runs. We fought back and stayed together as a team and pulled it out.

Coach B is never going to put you down. Even when she?s yelling at you she?s going to be picking you up. We definitely feed off her emotions. She loves coaching and we love playing for her.