University of Minnesota Athletics
Minnesota-Pittsburgh Postgame Quotes
11/18/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Minnesota 73, Pittsburgh 63
November 17, 2010
Williams Arena
Minneapolis, Minn.
Minnesota Head Coach Pam Borton
Opening statement…
“I was really proud of this basketball team tonight for a lot of different reasons. I think as we see this team each and every game, we continue to grow as a team… Without having Katie Loberg, I thought Doc did a great job stepping up tonight and playing like a veteran… Beating a great team like Pittsburgh was outstanding.”
On the continuation of character building…
“I think the biggest thing is different people continue to step up. I think this is the ultimate team that we have here on both ends of the floor.”
Minnesota Player Quotes
On Minnesota's backcourt play…
“It’s just a team effort. China and I are always communicating with each other on the court, pulling each other aside, and we try to stay on the same page, just do the little things… try to execute our offenses and get our team together and situated. “
China Antoine (Sr./G)
On the last four minutes of the first half, and hitting a three-pointer…
“When I hit the shot, I think we had momentum from that shot… we played, we picked up on our defense and that led us into the half… the second half we knew we had to come out strong.”
Kristen Dockery (Sr./F)
On playing a career-high 30 minutes...
"It was incredible. I just waited for that opportunity and my team needed me to step up today.. I just had to be ready to go and put my best effort out there.”
Pittsburgh Head Coach Agnus Berenato
Opening statement…
“Compliments to Minnesota. They played exceptionally hard. I thought they were a real physical team and they were in their groove this evening. Pam did a really nice job. Defensively they were up on us. At the beginning Jania Sims did a great job of attacking, penetrating and scoring. In the second half, Brittaney Thomas was very strong for us, but Minnesota took our post out of the game and that’s a big part of what we do.”
On Minnesota’s post play...
“The Gophers took our posts out by their physicality of the game. They walked us off the line, they walked us off the post, they walked us off the block. They were really active and they have tremendous size, including in the wing position.”
