TCU-South Dakota State Postgame Quotes
3/22/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 22, 2009
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POSTGAME QUOTES
South Dakota State 90, TCU 55
NCAA Tournament First Round - Raleigh Regional
Lubbock, Texas (United Spirit Arena)
March 22, 2009
TCU Head Coach Jeff Mittie
On what TCU tried to do defensively against South Dakota State:
"They shot us out early. I think they also passed very well. They really made the extra pass well all night. The final score really said it all to me. We tried to throw the 1-3-1 zone at them which is supposed to take the extra pass away. Then we tried to run the 2-3 (zone) and then just started trying to throw everything and the kitchen sink at them to stop the shooters. They played very well tonight. We were outplayed, outcoached, everything tonight."
On his team's apparent timidness:
"We've been that way all year. It didn't just show up tonight. We've been a finesse team. We're not as deep as we should be. Our practices aren't as competitive in order to get better at that. Our practices have not been very physical, because we're not as deep as we should be and that's my fault as a coach. We're a finesse team and we've got to find more toughness in the off-season."
On South Dakota State's 3-point shooting:
"16-for-31 is a fantastic number. It's one thing to not get anything else, but they were getting the other shots, too, and making good decisions of when to not shoot the 3 and when to shoot it. That really took us out of a lot of our rotations. We only saw them pass the ball carelessly for about a minute and a half the whole game. They just played very well the whole game."
Junior guard TK LaFleur
On SDSU's 3-point shooting performance:
"We just didn't come out and close out on them like we should. We were a step slow on them and did not get our rotations right."
On the determining factors in the game:
"It was not so much their speed but their physicality on defense. It wore us down early and once we got down, we were never able to recover from that."
Sophomore guard Helena Sverrisdottir
On what TCU expected from SDSU:
"They came out and were a lot stronger than we were today. It was hard for us to fight back once we got down as far as we did. We have a young team and hopefully we can come back from this and learn for next year."
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