Feb. 13, 2011
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Head Coach Brenda Frese
Opening Statement:
"This was a disappointing game from our end. Obviously Virginia came in here with a lot of confidence and they also came in here acting like they had something to prove. They have a great bench and they did a tremendous job swaying the outcome of this ballgame. We just didn't play with the kind of poise, confidence and trust in one another on the offensive end. I thought at times Virginia really took it to us on the defensive end."
On Maryland's last offensive possession:
"We had our three-point shooters in the game and we had to be able to get Kim [Rodgers] a shor or Laurin [Mincy] on a flare. But obviously our timing was bad. On the screen, we didn't come off strong and we didn't get the look that we wanted. I don't really think this game should have come down to this one play, but again, we have had three slow starts and any time you are in the ACC play, you can't come out and play flat. We have to learn and understand just how good these teamrs are in league play."
On Virginia's defense:
"They were physical and I said in the locker room that I thought they were the tougher team coming off screens and we stopped cutting hard and stopped being aggressive."
On Maryland's early struggles:
"I am confused by our team coming out flat, especially at this time in the season. Obviously our starting five has to be able to bring that energy and then it has to be able to transfer to the rest of the team. We have to use this adversity to make us tighter as a unit as we move forward."
Junior Center Lynetta Kizer
On the loss:
"This loss definitely hurts. We just have to come back on Thursday and get after it. We have to be both mentally and physically tougher. We also have to work a lot harder in practice and understand that we only have four ACC games left and we cannnot keep coming out flat like we did today."
Freshman Forward Alyssa Thomas
On Maryland's energy:
"We just aren't bringing enough energy as the starting five and we are the ones responsible for getting the rest of the team excited. Today we didnt succeed in doing that. We just didn't take care of what we needed to get done today."
Virginia Head Coach Debbie Ryan
Opening Statement:
"I'd first like to congratulate Maryland. They are a team that is a very, very tough out. They are a strong team, a great rebounding team with great size and great athleticism. We really had to try to neutralize the things that they did. Their post game is so strong with Lynetta [Kizer] in there as well as with their other strong post players. They come at you with waves of players and today we had to settle on who we were going to play and try to stay with it. The way we played today was the answer to how we played in Charlottesville [against Maryland]. In regulation when we played in Charlottesville, it was the same situation but we didn't play it well. We did a better job at doing so today and that was the difference in the game; our free-throw line and the low turnover level, which were exceptional."
On defending Maryland's Alyssa Thomas in the second half:
"We had basically the same game plan but we had different players on her. We switched players to defend her. We tried to keep fresh players on her. We tried to not have Ataira [Franklin], our best defender, on her but also Whitny [Edwards], our second-best defender on her as well. We tried to keep different and fresh players on Thomas and tried to rest Whitny and Ataira so that when they did have to defend her, they could take away some of her strengths. I think we just played a better defensive game in the second half."
Virginia Junior Guard Whitny Edwards
On the pressure to make big shots:
"I was a little nervous stepping up to the line but my teammates and my coach have such confidence in me that I knew that I was going to make the two shots. It wasn't too much pressure."
