107 Quotes by Katie Gearlds

I'm just excited to have the opportunity to be in the tournament and play our opening game on our home floor.

If we want to win the Big Ten title we have to win and that's pretty much what it comes down to. If we lose, we get second.

(In the first half) we started to get into their tempo. We wanted to stay away from that.

In the first half, coach got on us a little because we took some quick shots.

I looked at the bracket and I thought about it. I've been thinking about (2004, when she made the all-tournament team as a freshman) a lot lately. I remember the feeling of celebrating after we beat Penn State. Hopefully, that's one we can duplicate.

In the second half, we were very, very aggressive. We had the lead (in the first half), but we weren't playing our best basketball. It's so hard to put into words. We just dominated in the second half.

In the past games, I thought we've done a good job of staying composed and letting little things rub off our backs, but (on Sunday) we let things bother us. We're human and we're going to make mistakes. We're just very fortunate to get the win.

We started executing offensively and got stops defensively. Basketball is a game of runs. We had to sustain ours a little longer, and we did.