30 Quotes by Joanne McCallie

The thing I love about this team is they love March. Everything from this point on is super-hard but super-fun.

Of course this game is urgent, but I thought we were urgent and in the moment against Ohio State. People assume the team that advanced to the national championship game returned, and that team did not return. We're a young team, and we're learning how to be urgent. The key is to be consistently attacking.

A boring, pathetic game like we played doesn't attract fans of any kind.

It's about time. We're overdue. We need about 10 more of these games to make up for some of the adversity.

It's great to see him be so successful.

It was a good game for us to work on rebounding and making some tough plays. We had a lot of people contributing, playing and producing, and that's got to be a habit as we take on these games.

It was a good defensive game for us. It was good to see the defensive pressure. It's important to be stingy in the Big Ten tournament and beyond that. Now it's all about how we extend our season and how good we are in the postseason, because that's what it's all about.

They beat us on a buzzer shot and kicked our tails for 40 minutes. Obviously, they are very, very good.

It was just a great test of character, grit (and) courage. They did get a pretty good look at the end but I was happy with the way we matched up. I did like the contest that Liz gave at the end. That ball was not going in.