NCAA Women's Regional Semifinals and Finals: Oklahoma City Friday, March 24, 2017 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma We've been talking, if we're going to turn the ball over, Jeff Walz we need dead-ball turnovers, we need to throw it into the stands, hold onto it, but they can't lead to baskets. Myisha Hines-Allen They led to 21 points. Unfortunately it's definitely not the way we wanted to Asia Durr end this season, in this fashion. I'm proud of the young Louisville women that I coach. They've worked their tails off. They've had a great season. Baylor - 97, Louisville - 63 We're looking forward to getting back in the gym and THE MODERATOR: We're now joined by Louisville. start working for next year. Coach, your thoughts about tonight's game. THE MODERATOR: Questions for our student-athletes COACH WALZ: Well, first off, I'd like to congratulate or Coach. Baylor on a very well-played game, and thank everyone with the support staff, everyone involved with the Q. Asia, it seemed like in the beginning your shots NCAA. It's been a wonderful experience for not only weren't really falling. You started to get into a myself but our entire program, these young women rhythm as the game went on. The team overall sitting next to me here, our support staff, everyone didn't really. What do you think it was that was that's been involved with it from the University of keeping you from getting started in the beginning? Louisville. I just definitely would like to thank the Was it the same thing that was hampering the NCAA. entire team throughout the game? ASIA DURR: Well, I think, starting off in the first Then on to the game. They played well. Unfortunately, quarter, I mean, I started off too hyped. As the game we did not. We did not put up a performance that even went on, I calmed down. We started to get a few stops resembled anything that I had seen from our ballclub here and there, but we didn't shoot the ball too well. the last month. We just tried to make a few runs. They didn't get You know, we knew coming into it that we were going enough stops, so... That's what really hurt us tonight. to have to play very well and really do a lot of things in the post to try to give some post help. Unfortunately, Q. Coach, the second quarter was where you all we just did not respond very well. made some adjustments to what Baylor was doing. You made a run to close the gap just before The first play of the game, we got them to take the shot halftime. Talk about that. that we wanted to take. They miss it. Then we don't COACH WALZ: Well, we really didn't make any follow through with the box-out. It turns into a layup. adjustments. We just actually followed through with the game plan. We actually executed correctly and did the When you're playing a team with the talent of Baylor, right things, which we struggled with. the depth of Baylor, you have to be able to finish out plays. Unfortunately for us, we did not. We knew it coming into the game, that we had to be on point. Then, like Asia said, we came up with some I thought we actually took care of the ball decent. But stops. We had some great rotations. Our effort was the problem is, you know, every time we turned it over, really good. it led to a point. It's a staggering stat, when you look at it. They have 21 points off our turnovers, and we only Went into halftime feeling good. I really felt good about turned it over 12 times. Every led to a point, a things. I'm like, Hey, it's a 12-point game, people. basket. It's unacceptable. They had it at 18. We cut it down to 12. We got to get a stop, score, stop. It led to a score, turnover, and-one,

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It was like, Golly, you went from 12 to 17 in a hurry. I tell people all the time, they always used to tell us, You got to go get a big kid. I'm real excited about Kylee Q. Coach, how would you compare this Lady Bears Shook and Ciera Johnson, what they're going to be team to the team you saw in 2013? Do you think able to turn into. They're efficient right now. this team could potentially be better than that squad? Kalani and Beatrice are very efficient. They score COACH WALZ: I think they're deeper is what it is. I around the basket, which then opens things up for don't see anybody on the team that's the caliber of Nina. I thought she does a great job of taking Brittney Griner. I'm not sure there's going to be. I think advantage of that. She did it tonight. she's a once-in-a-lifetime player to come through. was pretty darn good, too. 10-15 from the field...

I think once you get into five, six, seven and eight, I Q. Coach, I know you said yesterday that you think five, six, seven and eight on this year's ballclub, wanted to force Baylor to use players that they you have to guard 'em all. There's only one or two kids don't normally use to score. 34 bench points that I thought on the roster, when they got into the tonight. Seemed like they kind of did do that. Is game, we were going to try to make 'em shoot and that what you envisioned? score. COACH WALZ: No. They really didn't do that at all. The ones that we knew could score coming off the In '13, I thought they had four or five of them that we bench scored. We had a few of 'em that were shooting were going to challenge. It makes it much more the ball early that we wanted them to shoot, but we difficult when they can put five on the floor that can couldn't get the . That just eliminates score, four out of five most times can score. everything you're trying to do.

I think that's your difference, the fact that they're just You know, the ones that we were going to want to deeper. shoot really shot it. But, unfortunately, did not shoot it enough. Q. Myisha, did you feel like this game was at all comparable to any other losses you had this THE MODERATOR: Congratulations on a great season? season. MYISHA HINES-ALLEN: No, because this is our last game. This is the last game for the seniors. You're COACH WALZ: Thank you, everybody. one-and-done if you lost this game.

It hurts a lot because we knew we could have played a lot better, and we didn't follow through with the game plan for the whole 40 minutes. We didn't come up with stops when we needed to.

You know, it just hurts a lot because we know we could have done a lot better than what we did.

Q. Jeff, you've had probably in your career a few of these undersized kids, like Nina Davis. Seemed like today was the kind of game where her senior leadership and the things she did made a big difference. Talk about how tough a kid like that is. COACH WALZ: No, she played extremely well. She plays hard. She's crafty. She knows how to put the ball in the basket.

Then, you know, she fits what they're doing. She's a very important piece to their puzzle. -- I thought Beatrice played extremely well, Kalani played well. They're able to throw so many big kids at you,

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