18 Quotes by Markus Roeders

Nobody went past her. She may not be the fastest defender, but she reads it extremely well. Her confidence level has to be quite high right now.

Right now, (Martin) could play 90 minutes, but (her hip) would be very sore the next day. We have to get her healthy first.

We came out with something to prove today. As we walk away from today, we earned something. It wasn't exactly what we wanted, but it was something.

We didn't play well on Friday, but Sunday we were excellent again, at the level we played in the Illinois and Northwestern games. We're getting to overtime, and we're turning it up a notch.

We walk away with our best start ever. We had that extra game on our legs and they didn't. Are we ecstatic with the tie? No. Of course we wanted to win, but it's another step in the right direction for what right now I feel is a very good team.

This will be a different team than we had last year. It takes time for a defense to gel, especially with the loss of four seniors.

Without taking anything away from Syracuse, I thought we played poorly in the first half. We weren't winning balls in the air or on the ground. But for the last seven minutes, after they scored, we picked it up.

We will treat this as a special game on Friday. We've been talking about the Big East for about a year and a half now, and it's finally here.

At times we turned the ball over a little too much, and we didn't try to spread the field enough. But the way we're playing right now is still relatively new. We only implemented it about four or five days ago, and you can't expect a great flow to the game all the time.