Nov. 30, 2003
Charlotte Head Coach Katie Meier
"Give credit to Old Dominion, they should a tremendous amount of courageafter we took the lead. We were fatigued. We're usually a feisty,scratchy bunch, but we needed to go to the next level and dig deeper."
"We spent all of our energy pressing, trying to get the lead, and we bailedout on our offense. We played hopeful instead of determined. We can't dothat in an away contest against a team like Old Dominion."
"The bench gave them some great minutes. It was strategic and it worked totheir advantage. But I think we're a good team, but we have some kinks towork out. Our pressure gave them fits, but that's not enough."
"I give her (Monique Coker) credit. In the Colorado film, she didn't lookvery conditioned. I didn't expect her to play 38 minutes of toughbasketball. She probably woke up during Penn State and realized it wastime for her to rise up."
Senior forward Monique Coker
On her 1,000th career point:
"It feels good. I never thought about it. I just go out and play. Itfeels good to be apart of an elite group."
Senior guard Myriah Spence
"It was frustrating that we let them back in the game, but we answeredback. We defeated ourselves when we let them back in the game withturnovers. It was frustrating."
Old Dominion Head Coach Wendy Larry
"I think we play like we practice. I felt like our focus going into thePenn State game was different for the Charlotte game. It was indicative ofhow we didn't take care of the ball and we really didn't hit the offensiveglass. Preparation has a lot to do with your performance."
"We'll get better as the season goes on, but we have to go to a verydifficult place to play at Virginia Tech and we only have two days toprepare and change the things that we didn't do well. We have to be readyto come in focused tomorrow (in practice) to improve."
"Poise is going to be huge. They (Virginia Tech) have a tremendous postplayer and swing player. But we know it's a difficult place to play. It'svery difficult to play on the road, but you have to be warriors."
"We did a great job taking away the 3-ball. They all can come out andshoot it. We took away half of their offense. Old Dominion will never bethat type of team. We want to get into the paint and score and playinside-out."