Suzy Merchant is the current head coach for the Michigan State University Women's Basketball team. She is married to Gary Rakan and has two young sons, Tyler Rakan and Brady Rakan... (wikipedia)
She did a nice job. I certainly felt like she definitely got us rolling there in the second half when we were a little flat.
She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.
Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.
I don't think we played our best game, but we just found a way to get it done.
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.
I anticipated it being every bit the fight that it was today.
I think Bowling Green really came out and came after us and we didn't handle that very well.
I'm still a little perplexed at Carrie Moore and Casey Rost. If we see them again, certainly, we're going to have to figure out a way to stop those kids.
I thought it was a collective effort, but we did a nice job of getting to that kid.
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.
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 thought our kids did a great job of coming mentally and physically prepared for this game.
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.
We didn't do a very good job of defending dribble-drives tonight and I think we're better than that.
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.
We're just happy to be still alive in March. I'll just keep it that simple.
BG really came out and came after us, and we didn't handle it very well. There's a reason why they're 17-2.
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.
Reading their quotes, we knew they were mad. We were victim No. 1.
We had a couple kids that got away from us and we need to do a better job defensively on those kids.
We didn't get a lot of production out of our point guard position.
I fully expect every game we play from here on out to be a war and a possession-by-possession game.
I didn't realize it was six years. That's pretty brutal.
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 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 certainly felt like our kids did a really nice job of making sure the shooters didn't get good looks.
