Miami 73, Milwaukee 70 - ot
Nov. 28, 2007
Milwaukee Head Coach Sandy Botham On the game "We are obviously disappointed that we let this one slip through our fingers. We thought this was a team we could beat and we had plenty of opportunities. The story of our season, so far, has been turnovers. We had so many opportunities and just didn't take advantage of them." On Milwaukee coming back late "I am proud of our kids' efforts. I was proud of the fact they never gave up. We put ourselves in position (to win) twice. With 45 seconds we are down seven and come back to tie it and have another chance to tie it (in overtime). We just need experience. This has been a tough, long stretch of very few games and I think that has taken a toll. The more experience we get, we're going to get better." On what the team will take from the game "It's early in our season and we need to take these games as chances to go. So, when we are in those situations again, we'll make better decisions. To me, a lot of it was fundamentals. It wasn't necessarily what (Miami) was doing, but what we were doing. It's something we can fix and it's something we talked about." On UWM's defense "I think we took advantage of their mistakes. We got a couple of baskets in transition. We created some opportunities with our press. That kind of rattled them. It was sloppy on both sides of the ball and we were still able to take advantage of their turnovers." Milwaukee Junior Traci Edwards On coming back late, but falling in overtime
"It was fun to come back from being down. I thought we played well then and I don't know what happened in overtime. We stuck with it like (Coach Botham) said, but we didn't come out on top and we should have."
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