27 Quotes by Jill Malko

We haven't really had a lot of close games. They've been a blowout either way. I looked at the sidelines and it looked like the team wanted it. There have been times where I think they didn't believe in themselves. Even though it was a loss, we played well.

To lose to Stanford, and in the fashion that we did, by laying an egg in the first half, showed some immaturity with our lack of ability to stick with the game plan.

We would be reeling if we had loss today. We needed this win. It marks an important turn around point in the season. It really felt like the first time we hit double digits on the board, even though it wasn't.

We've had the luxury of having more than a week to take some time off and regroup. We have a much more detailed game plan in terms of something the kids can buy into. It's taking a little more thinking out of their hands, in terms of analyzing the game and making decisions.

We had to be disciplined, and we weren't that disciplined in the first half. We got kind of rattled and we just started hooking the ball.

What really made the difference was our inability to finish on our eight-meter chances. That's the difference between tying the game and taking the lead.

Even though we've got great attackers, we might have one good first look, but we want to wait for the third perfect look. But if we give the ball to Vanderbilt four or five times in transition, they're going to score three or four out of those four or five chances.

There's not a lot of good to say today. It was frustrating. You just don't win games if you can't take care of the ball.

It was two games in a row where we dug ourselves into a hole where we couldn't get ourselves out. We started off slow and played flat in the first half.