2010 Pac-10 Tournament - UCLA/USC Postgame Quotes
March 14, 2010 | Women's Basketball
March 13, 2010
UCLA Head Coach Nikki Caldwell
On her team's effort against USC:
"They have a resilience about them."
On USC's three-point shooting:
"When you've got a team that's live-and-die by the three-ball, I would roll the dice with that versus giving up transition baskets and easy layups."
On Markel Walker's performance:
"Tonight she played bigger than just a rookie."
On having success against Stanford:
"I don't want them to feel any of the pressures of going up against Stanford or, it's a Pac-10 championship. Just go play this game that you love."
UCLA sophomore forward Jasmine Dixon
On UCLA's play in the tournament:
"We prepared, every day, hard, each and every day like every game is our last."
UCLA junior guard Darxia Morris
On playing Stanford in the championship game:
"I know that our team is going to go out and play hard because we know that Stanford is a tough team to beat, and we need this championship."
USC Head Coach Michael Cooper
On the level of play by both teams
"I thought this was a very well-played basketball game by two good basketball teams that have resurrected themselves from the past to championship basketball."
On UCLA's abilities
"It would have taken a perfect game for us to beat this team tonight."
On what he takes away from the game
"Tough losses like this hurt, but they only make you a better team."
USC sophomore guard Ashley Corral
On tonight's loss to UCLA
"We fought hard the whole game and it's just a disappointing loss because we know that if we had won this game, we would have had a good shot at Stanford tomorrow."
On USC's NCAA tournament chances
"I think we have a really good chance so I don't really have any doubts and I'm just hoping they give us a shot because I know we can do some big things in the tournament."
USC senior guard/forward Aarika Hughes
On her last game at Galen Center
"Losing to the Bruins is never easy, definitely a lot of emotion, but I know that we played hard."