23 Quotes by Cheryl Burnett

We really felt heading into the game we had to stop the two seniors. Their easy baskets early hurt us.

When I looked on the court last year, about every possession I was seeing four freshmen. We'll be the most experienced sophomore class in the Big Ten. Finally, we have some experience. Finally, now we have some carry-over in knowledge.

My expectation will be -- has been every year -- it will always be to get into the NCAA tournament, whatever that means. I will be disappointed if that does not happen this year.

I'd like to answer that question honestly, but we have seven. It's not like it's going to change.

When you're down at halftime with the season we've had, it would have been easy to quit. They didn't. They fought back. That takes an incredible amount of heart and integrity.

We were still within shouting distance. And then of course they busted it open.

We didn't always take the open shots, we made things harder than they had to be, and then when Ohio State got it going in the second half, that was the ball game.

We still have one of the youngest teams in America.

We have great respect for Michigan State. And sometimes fans need to learn from fans what they need to do.