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Utah 51, New Mexico 45 (OT) - Postgame Quotes
3/10/2010 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 10, 2010
Utah Head Coach Elaine Elliott
"Well, I just thought this was another really great match-up between us and New Mexico. There's such a history of those kinds of games. It's pretty amazing. I want to say that I know that it's really hard for any seniors to be done with that last chance to be in the NCAAs. I give a lot of credit to, and I have a lot of respect for, Amy Beggin (of New Mexico). I want to be sure everybody understands the kind of career she's had and how hard we know it is to go out."
"As far as our kids and this team, I am so proud of who they are, really. It was a grind-it-out game again. It's so hard for either one of us to score against the other one. You just have to sort of have to grind it and make gutty, ugly plays sometimes. Obviously an example is the shooting struggles of Whipple. So instead she has a career-high rebounding night. That's how you show your character. That's how you show your competitiveness, is you find other ways to win. New Mexico defended well, which kept it close. In the end, just a play or two went our way, and we go home happy."
Senior guard Kalee Whipple
"I think just like coach said, it comes down to hustle plays. Obviously I wasn't hitting a lot of shots. I knew when that shot missed, we needed a rebound. We were down three. If we don't get a three, we have to make stops. I just got the rebound, was falling out of bounds, saw Janita open at the three, had all the faith in the world she'd hit that shot and she did."
Freshman center Taryn Wicijowski
"I think that in overtime I just got some great passes from my teammates in places where I couldn't get double-teamed. So that definitely, I think, was how I was open so often in overtime. I feel really confident with how I'm playing right now, getting up against contact. At the beginning, they weren't falling. I just stayed with it and they ended up falling a lot for me."
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