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February 01, 2015 | Women's Basketball
Colorado Head Coach Linda Lappe
General
"I'm glad to come away with a win. I didn't think that we played our best, but liked that we did enough to win down the stretch. I thought our offense really clicked. We struggled a little bit on defense, there are things we can definitely work on, but it's always good to get that win."
On The Injury To Lexy Kresl
"I think she just tweeked her ankle. She's been spraining it a little too much lately. I think that if she absolutely had to, she maybe could have come back and played if we had another half, but with it happening so close to the end of the game it would have been tough for her to recover. She's tough, it happened to her the other night and she didn't come out of the game. She's a really tough player. I thought she had a fantastic game running our team from the point guard position, knocking down shots in the first half and setting the tempo for our team."
Colorado Players
Jen Reese, Sr., F
On Improving From ASU Game
"We wanted to win and we have been playing pretty well together lately in practice. That showed against ASU on Friday night. Like coach said, our offense was clicking. We didn't play that well as a team on defense like we should have but we pulled it out."
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Jasmine Sborov, Sr., G
On Playing Point Guard
"It's a little different for me late in the game, but I had to do it last year and little bit the year before so I was able to get the jitters out of the way then. I learned from the best, Lexi Kresl and Brecca Thomas are both great point guards and we do what we have to do in order to win the game."
On Having Good Ball Movement
"I think that we were just focusing a lot on it during practice this week, were we had a great offensive and defensive week of practice. I think we are just really getting to know each other and each other's tendencies a little bit better than we had in the beginning of the season. I know were Jen Reese is going to be all the time, I know were my other players are going to be and they know were each other will be. It's a lot easier to play offense when you know your teammates and I think we have done a much better job at that recently."
Arizona Head Coach Niya Butts
On The Difference In The Game
"We didn't get rebounds or stops. Stops and rebounds are the name of the game."
On Defending Kresl, Swsan and Reese
"We missed a few things early on her [Lexy Kresl]. We did a little bit better in the second half but she got that wide open three at the start of the half which is not something we need to do. But, basically we didn't rebound missed shots defensively. I thought we did a decent job on the inside players like Jamee Swan but not so much on [Jen] Reese and [Lexy] Kresl."
On Malena Washington's Career High 16 Points
"We left her open. She knocked down outside shots."