30 Quotes by Leslie Crane

I think the two of them do a good job of looking for one another. They've been playing long enough now where they've experienced a lot of high-low situations and can do that very well.

That was a lack of focus. I've always told the kids that the first 10 minutes of the second half is when you win and lose ballgames. We lost a little bit of intensity and focus in that time frame and we weren't able to recover from it.

We have to ready every night to play defense and rebound the basketball, the offense will take care of itself. And that's what we did. We got good scoring out of a lot of folks and that's what winning us ball games. That has to continue down the road.

We preached all year long what defensive rebounding does. With 3:03 remaining, we were out-rebounding them 38-21. They had six offensive boards. That's the big difference. That's a big key for us.

We have been able to push down people who have come back at us. We need to have games like that to prepare us for down the road when we go back to Oakland and help us when we get into hostile situations.

This time of year you're just not going to close out opponents. This is February and it is a tough month. Teams are getting better; teams know how to take things away from you, just like we know how to take things away from people. Games night in and night out are going to be like this. I'm happy because we're still finding ways to win.

We got a lot of good offensive effort from a lot of different people. Sarah played a great game today ... offensively, defensively, doing some nice things. This is the way that we feel like she's going to be able to play all of the time.

When you out-rebound teams, you can afford to turn the ball over a few more times because you control the tempo of the game.

Everybody talks about how Western Illinois has never been there. It's something that we've wanted to do, but we don't think it'll make or break our program.