22 Quotes by Jay Sparks

We will have had 2 1/2 weeks off, so we're playing more against ourselves than the other team. We're going to be our own worst enemy because of the rust that we'll have.

We've been on the wrong side of those a lot this year. It's nice to see we got one to bounce our way one time.

This was a typical game for us after 19 days off. We experimented by playing a lot of people and all 11 players who played got in at least 10 minutes. That is a positive for us as we get ready for conference play.

As an athletic department staff member, he is so loyal and so committed -- not just to men's or women's basketball, but to the whole program. He's not been able to give to the whole athletic program like he would have liked to and so I think the most obvious change you'll see is his attention to some of the sports that he has not been able to really commit to.

The whole first half they wanted me to tell them what to do based on our set plays. Outside of maybe one possession in the second half, we didn't run a set play. We just played basketball, and I thought that was good for us.

They are a very good basketball team and we knew that coming in. They deserved to win this game because they did everything they needed to do to win. We didn't do that... . They were at least 23 points better than us tonight, if not more.

There were a few good performances out there, but, truthfully, there weren't enough of them. We will hopefully take what we learned in this game tonight and apply it toward getting better on Friday. We have to have some people step up and play the way they are capable of playing if we are going to be successful the rest of the year.

It was a total lack of focus, concentration and intensity. You add all that up and it equals 27 turnovers and a loss.

That's obviously a significant reason why she's player of the year. She does those kind of things for her team. Give her a whole lot of credit.