60 Quotes by Lisa Bluder

It's a very important game for us. We're both fighting for the same thing. The NCAA has taken five from the Big Ten Conference for as long as I can remember.

That put a smile on our coaches' faces.

It's been heartbreaking. It's been emotionally just very difficult to handle.

Ohio State has the nod on everybody else. They're tournament-savvy, having been there before. They have earned the No. 1 seed with their play. But our conference has been known to have people come in and dethrone the champion. Yes, it's wide open, but I would have to give my nod to Ohio State.

Ohio State did an excellent job defensively, excellent job on the boards. I really feel Debbie Merrill might be the 'X' factor for that team. ... She is very hard to guard.

This is just what Wendy needed because we've seen glimpses of this. Maybe this is just what the doctor ordered to put her over the edge.

I'm proud of our team. I thought we fought hard out there. They'd won five in a row, and were a Top 20 team. And we had a shot to win at the end. That's all you can ask of a team as young as ours.

I hope that this game doesn't become the deciding factor. I hope that they'll look at our Big Ten schedule as a whole and our body of work, rather than just a one-game performance.

I'm just thankful for the free-throw line because we stepped up and made the free throws. Good teams make their free throws and we're getting to the free-throw line so much more this year than we have in the past.