Jan. 8, 2009
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Maryland 92, Wake Forest 65
January 8, 2009
Head Coach Brenda Frese
On the team's first ACC game:
"It's great to be able to see the statement that we made today for our first ACC game. What I was really pleased with was our defense. That really just got us clicking on all cylinders. The defense led to offense, very unselfish play. And very exciting obviously for the new players to see how they were going to step up and how they were going to feel with their very first ACC game, so I am really proud and really pleased with the effort and I want to gain momentum with this win and get ready to move on to go to Duke."
On Maryland's defense:
"I thought it was just tremendous team defense. We were all helping each other. We came out with great and tremendous intensity and tremendous focus. Our defense is really what got us started."
On Maryland's ball movement:
"It's fun to watch how we are sharing the basketball. When we are communicating we have open shots and being ready to step up and shoot the ball with confidence. As you can see any given night, we have so many players that are capable of stepping up and doing big things for us. That is what allows us to be a dangerous team, it's just having so many options within our team."
Senior Guard/Forward Marissa Coleman
On coming together as a team:
"I think that with each game that we play and each practice you can see the little things that the coaches have been harping on all season that we are getting better on. Today Coach [Frese] and the rest of the coaching staff have been talking about team defense. I think that we have got better at doing that. We have a couple practices going into Duke, so I think if we get better in a couple areas we can really get better come Monday night."
Senior Guard Kristi Toliver
On how it feels to be up 20-0 early:
"You're excited. For a lot of the players this is their first ACC game. And the fact that we started off extremely focused, executed really well, ran the floor and got back in transition had defensive stops set the tone for this ACC run that we are about to have. I was extremely excited; extremely proud. I feel like the whole team came out ready to play."
Wake Forest head coach Mike Petersen
On Wake Forest's play:
"We got better as we went along. The problem at the start of the game was our offense. You're not going to stop Maryland from scoring. They're going to score, that's what they do. They are very talented. The problem was we had zero push to our offensive end, and that's not us."
On how his team performed after falling behind early:
"I thought that after 20-0, our [offensive] push got better, but we got better shots. Our first six shots were threes, and that's not who we are. But our push got better, we guarded a little better. I think our half court trap was semi-effective."
On the way Maryland scores often near the end of the shot clock:
"They have a good scheme, but they are as good as anyone in the country at winning the last five-second matchup. [Kristi] Toliver's great one-on-one, [Marissa] Coleman's great one-on-one, [Marah] Strickland's great one-on-one, make a list. You can just name their starting line-up."
