Kansas State Head Coach Quotes
Mar 31, 2006 | General
KANSAS STATE HEAD COACH DEB PATTERSON
On her thoughts of the whole tournament and becoming tournament champions...
“We are thrilled to be tournament champions. I am very proud of our basketball team. This is an excellent tournament, just a tremendous field. It’s a real honor and privilege to have the opportunity to play in the post-season WNIT. I’m just so proud of our basketball team with the way we stepped up and established the kind of toughness that winning requires. I think we owe a great deal to our fans for their support over the course of this tournament. It was an incredible environment, not just for us as Kansas State Wildcats, but I think it was also an incredible environment for the WNIT and for women’s basketball. It’s a great statement of how quality basketball is supported here in the
On how they pulled away from
“I think it was a very fitting ending to our season, not just because of the win but because of how we won, how we had to compete, how everyone that had an opportunity on the floor stepped up and gave us something that was significant. I think that’s what this team learned to do and I think, relative to the nature of the game at about that 7 minute mark we just demonstrated how we have grown in that we began to separate ourselves just a little bit and refused to let
On the state of her program going into the off season...
“We certainly feel very, very confident in the quality of basketball that we bring to the floor. We have a good understanding of who we are. We’ve established an identity of being a true team, of being tough and of being able to play a lot of ways against a lot of styles very well. When we started the season and maybe even early in conference play all the way through January we were working to create and identity and I think this championship and this opportunity to compete in it we have to find the kind of team that we are going to be mentally and physically tough. To me that is the most important aspect of our program as we are moving into the off season and looking forward to next season."
