Geno Auriemma

It's been a long haul here. There's been some pretty emotional games. I think we're going to be really tested Monday, physically and mentally. We'll see if we have anything left.

So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games sometimes I think as coaches we get really caught up in winning games. Now that I look back, I'm going to try to take a different spin on it, and try to look at things differently.

If you win, what do they give you Trophies Plaques Rings If you lose, do they take stuff away ... We could win Monday by 25 and still come in fourth in our league.

You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.

Renee is making a real case to be the starting point guard. She makes things happen. She makes plays. She's assertive. She acts like she's a real good player and that goes a long way into believing you're a real good player.

She's making a real case for being the starting point guard, ... She makes shots and she makes plays. She's assertive. Part of being a really good player is acting like one. She acts like a real good player. She walks around and talks and acts and carries herself like, I'm really good.'

There's a lot of soul searching that has to go on. Maybe we just don't have it in us. Maybe we're just not good enough right now.

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

As it should be. When you've played here the longest, you should have a pretty good idea what to do. If you're going to be a good team, you have to do that.

We were lousy. I told the players the one good thing that game out of this was we won the game. Other than that I can't think of really anything that came out of this that was good.

I'm glad that they set it up the way they did to where it's the last game of the season. Ironically it ends up being for the Big East championship. If that's the way they had it planned, obviously it was pretty good planning.

I think there's been a lot of progress made and I can usually tell by where the ball ends up. Like does the ball end up in the right player's hand and what's going on in that possession.

It's kind of bittersweet, you know I'm happy for her, and I'm happy she's at a place she enjoys being at, but you hate to see them in that situation.

It's always good to see Trina. It's interesting when you know somebody when they're 17. Now you look at her and they're struggling and playing us without their leading scorer. It's kind of bittersweet. You hate to see them in that situation.

We tried five different people on her. Nobody could guard her. She made all kinds of shots. She's a hell of a player.

If I could predict what this team is going to do ... based on our history, we're going to play really good and we're going to do things that are going to put us in jeopardy of losing. That's about the only thing I can predict.

We hope to improve on what was a very, very disappointing year last year. My fans are adamant that if we're 25-8 again next year, heads are going to roll.

I keep thinking that it's going to work out. I keep holding out hope that it's going to work out.

That first half, they played us as well as any team has played us. I like the way we responded to that situation when they took the lead. I hope that sets us up well for Tuesday night.

Sometimes you just have to hope they play bad.

The big guys hurt us. And Essence Carson hurt us. They got contributions from the big guys and Essence Carson. And for us it was hard to find people to contribute.

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

I think it was harder than all the other 12 put together. I thought our guys battled through a lot of stuff tonight. We played against a really good team that played their hearts out.

I didn't think we were ever going to stop them. I thought they were going to score on every possession down the floor. ... But we didn't panic. I think tonight we learned how tough we are.

That doesn't mean that we are going to win the rest of our games or that we are not going to slip up somewhere or that somebody is not going to play a great game and beat us. But I do think we aren't going to give it away. That's for sure. I thought a while back that we might give some games away. I don't think we will give any away now. If we get beat, we get beat.