Utah 69, TCU 57 - Postgame Quotes
3/12/2010 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 12, 2010
Utah Head Coach Elaine Elliott
"Obviously I am very encouraged and happy that the kids came out and really competed just from the start. We played very good defense. We had kids, stepping up and chipping in from different places. I think that we are where we hoped we would be with this team. We hoped we would become better, that we would learn more, that our young kids would step up and begin to contribute and that we would have the leadership that we needed from the older kids. What we saw tonight was just a combination of those things."
"TCU is just unbelievably talented. They earned a regular-season championship for a reason. They absolutely are going to be a great representative to the NCAAs for this league. We'll just try our hardest to try to be another one."
On the play of Halie Sawyer
"Well, we've kind of been waiting for this. Halie has the capabilities. The way people choose to defend us, because of Taryn's presence, is not to defend Halie. That's where the double teams come from. These kids can they make people pay, and she absolutely did so tonight. She knows that she can. She's a very nice shooter. She took advantage of those opportunities.
"The other thing those double teams open up us is the opportunity to get the ball. We told her that was what she needed to get done. She could go have a career high on the offensive boards if she goes because there's nobody between her and the basket when the shot goes up. It's one thing talking about it or saying you understand. That's the easy part. Then it becomes a function of whether a player can do it and does do it. That's exactly what she did tonight. That's to her credit."