Boston College Athletics
Boston College vs. Utah
March 26, 2006 | Women's Basketball
March 26, 2006
Recap | Box Score | Notes
Boston College Head Coach Cathy Inglese
Overall I was pretty pleased with our team's efforts tonight. I think we started out a little bit slow the first ten minutes, but after that, the last thirty I was pretty pleased with how we played. I think it just took us a little while to get involved in the rhythm of the game. I was just pleased with our efforts, especially the defensive in end the second half. I thought that we out-rebounded them and talked a lot. Utah is a very, very scrappy team and out-rebound their opponents by six. I was just really pleased the fact that we had sixteen offensive boards and out-rebounded them. I think the thing that hurt us a little bit is that they had some of their secondary players. I think we did a really nice job on Kim Smith, holding her down. I think we did a fabulous job doing that. This is a team that gets a lot of stuff going to the basket, a lot of back door cuts. They move very, very well. I thought holding them to 57 points, I thought if we held them to 57 points we could score a little bit more. I think with [Joh-Teena] Filipe, coming off the bench and hitting those five baskets, I think that hurt us a little bit. But overall, just holding the primary players down and out-rebounding them we did a real nice job. I think they did a nice job on Kindyll [Dorsey]. Kindyll was coming off of two hot games and she struggled to get some shots off. They did a real nice job holding her down. I am pleased with both Brooke [Queenan] and Sarah [Marshall]. I think Sarah just played, as with the rest of the team, with her heart out. She did some real nice things at the end. Brooke, I think did a fabulous job. Getting in foul trouble that hurt us a little bit the first half. I had to take Brooke out and it turned into a sudden deficit. Brooke came back and picked up her third. I thought Brooke did a real nice job playing in the second half with three fouls and we were pleased with that.
Q: Did you get the shot you wanted at the end of the game?
INGLESE: We got the exact shot we wanted, and that's why I was happy at the end of the game. It was the last thing we worked on in practice today. We worked every day on special situations we worked on daily. I was very pleased, the fact that we executed the play with the right people and got the shot, and we had three open threes at the end. And that sideline play, we've never run that play up the sideline. We got the shot that we wanted. I think Brooke Queenan could have taken one more dribble, but I'm very pleased with the fact that we didn't give up. I think they felt confident at the time out when I told them what to run. I felt that they would do what they needed to do, it just didn't go in.
Q: Coach you didn't hit any three-pointers in this game, did you think you'd be able to be that close without any outside presence?
INGLESE: I was a little bit worried about that. We knew that the defense would be in Kindyll's [Dorsey] shorts. And that's the thing that they didn't do. They had six threes and we didn't have any. But yeah, I thought we'd score in the lane but we would have liked to have gotten a few. Even though we didn't hit any in the game, I was proud that when we were down by three that we could make a three-point shot.
Boston College Student-Athletes
Senior Brooke Queenan
Junior Sarah Marshall
Junior Kindyll Dorsey
Q: Sarah, did you find the altitude left you gasping for air at the end?
MARSHALL: At times in the game, I did get a little winded. I don't know if that is from the altitude or just the pace of the game. But, it didn't seem to affect us too long, just in spurts. After timeouts I would be fine. Pretty normal feelings for that kind of game.
Q: Brooke, what was going though your mind through the last couple of minutes of the game? Just how frustrated was it to not get a basket?
QUEENAN: It was not really frustrating. I think at the end of the game we came in and executed our plays and got three good threes off. We go and do special situations a lot at practice and it paid off. We got the shot that we wanted in the place that we wanted with the people that we wanted to shoot them. It is a little frustrating that they didn't fall, but I think we did a great job at the end and we did what we wanted to do.
Q: Brooke, were you frustrated you could not be on the court more because of your foul trouble?
QUEENAN: Yes, I wanted to be in the game to be helping us score and play defense. But, I picked up my first foul especially early. I think it was frustrating to be on the bench not playing, I wanted to be helping my team.
Q: Thoughts on the game? You seemed to battle right to the end.
DORSEY: We definitely battled to the end. They came right out and I just give credit to our team, we got within one and down the end those four shots we make 95 percent of the time. For Brooke's [Queenan] shot, along with the other three plays, we executed perfectly. We got them to the people we wanted to, sometimes it just doesn't fall. As frustrating as it is, Utah played a great game, they executed, they never gave up, they played very hard. We laid everything out there.
Q: As difficult as it is to talk about next year already, what have you learned from the seniors that you can take into next year in your role as a senior?
DORSEY: We were just talking in the locker room and I give credit to them, they were amazing. That's a lot of the sadness, to see them leave. Through everything they've kept us together, through losses. We wouldn't have been able to get back without them. As seniors next year, me, Sarah [Marshall] and Kathrin [Ress], we're obviously going to use what we learned from them, work hard over the summer, learn from this, keep working hard until next fall.
