40 Quotes by Jose Fernandez

Jackson has been in and out of the doghouse all year, she's been deep in there. And we're not a deep team.

Last home (stand) I wasn't very happy with how we played. We were headed into a direction where we deserved what we got against Connecticut, because if we continued to play the way we had been, we weren't even going to make the (NIT or NCAA) tournament.

I thought we had two good practices coming back from Christmas break and thought we were prepared for North Florida. Now we have the No. 3 ranked team in the country (LSU) to prepare for. We're 10-2 now and I like the way we played in the first half. I think we ran our lanes well and shot the ball well.

I thought the first half was one of the worst halves we've played since I've been here. It was just absolutely terrible. We didn't make shots, we had no value for the basketball and we didn't get second shots. I don't understand it. We've already played 19 games, and to come out and play how we played, there's no excuse for it.

I thought they did a very good job, running two people at her. They really made other people make shots.

I think we did a pretty good job (on Duffy) for about three-quarters of the way though. Down the stretch she made her free throws, put the ball in the basket and we couldn't get the ball away from her.

Parsons was injured in the West Virginia game (Feb. 25) and wasn't feeling good. But we will go back with Parsons against Notre Dame. She's our best interior defender. We have to do a good job against (Lindsay) Schrader, a good job against Duffy and not get into early foul trouble.

I was very happy by the way we responded without her being on the floor. They are doing a good job going after her on the defensive end. She's just got to play with her feet and not her hands.

It definitely hurts in the locker room. We're an NCAA (Tournament) team. We've just got to win these games. These are the type of games that you need to win to put you over the top.