Post-Game Press Conference

I would make the audio available, but apparently, the software doesn't work on Macs, so you'll just have to read it.

Head Coach Dianne Nolan (opening statement) - “I think we lost some opportunities when we had them. I thought our post play was pretty good. I thought we needed to get a little bit more from our perimeters. The game was on the ropes and we missed a couple shots, we missed a couple foul shots. We held, we held, we held and then they kinda gapped us.”

Nolan (why the offense struggled) – “I think people were trying to get free on their own and not really using each other."

Nolan (why foul shooting struggled) – “I have no idea. I wish I knew that answer. We shoot them in practice every day. I think it just became a head game. I don’t have an answer for that one, do you B?”

Sophomore forward Baendu Lowenthal (foul shooting) – “I think I agree it was a head game. Like you said, we shoot them everyday in practice. We’ve been shooting them every since we were little. I think most of it is mental when it comes to foul shots.”

Lowenthal (on getting into foul trouble early) – “You have to be cautious when you start the game out with two fouls. You have to be cautious, you don’t want to grab that third one. And you can’t really do much, you want to go for every single steal and stop everything, but you have to pick and choose which ones, whichever one you think is the best. I guess my choices were wrong today.”

Lowenthal (on what the team needs to work on) – “I would say foul shots and making shots. And working together and playing together.”

Nolan (on why the team couldn't pull ahead after coming within four) – “We missed a breakaway layup, and then we missed a couple free throws, and a jumper.”

Nolan (on why Fairfield couldn't convert turnovers into points) – “I thought they tried to get back fast, and I think we looked unsure coming down in transition, who was taking what lane. I thought Iona did a good job of trying to get back and disrupting us.”

Lowenthal (on how Fairfield tried to stop Iona's frontcourt) – “We worked on having our guards come down and help us dig because we were undersized. And just doubling down on the post."

Nolan (on how Fairfield tried to stop Iona's frontcourt) – “And laying off, not guarding them outside the arc.”

Nolan (on Sabra Wrice's writs) – “I think it’s sore. It’s not something that is going to keep her out. It just going to be sore.”

-Chris Simmons