14 Quotes by Deb Baber

Both of our teams are very similar. We like to go inside, they like to go inside. We have good shooters, they have good shooters. We play hard on defense and they play hard on defense. I told my team if they beat them on the boards, then we will win. And that's what they did.

Besides free throws and taking some unnecessary shots at the end of the game, I thought they played such a great game. They played great team defense. We were looking to go inside on them. We knew that was something we needed to do.

In any state playoff game, (opponent) is going to come to play. We didn't expect a low-intensity game. If we'd kept up our defense, it wouldn't have been as close.

You can only push these kids so far. We've been practicing three hours each day, and we've started to see some things. With a young team, you don't know if you're going to move forward or not.

The difference between last year and this year was the experience. Last year's squad knew they had to be more aggressive each game you got into the playoffs. This year's team learned a tough lesson.