Utah head coach Lynne Roberts was frustrated. Her No. 2-seeded Utes were letting No. 15 Gardner-Webb back into the game, which was now an eight-point margin late in the third, with turnovers and passes out of bounds.
over Norfolk State. Credit the Spartan defense for keeping out of the record books. No. 2 Iowa, the nation's best offense, came close with 95 points after sitting its starters most of the fourth. No. 2 seed Maryland looked like a windup toy, sprinting out for 93 early in the day and No. 1 seed Stanford closed at 92 later.
“We're lucky that we were able to win and still make those mistakes,” Roberts said. “But moving forward, that's not going to be the case. My mindset was just to try to get their attention, splash some water on their face. Figuratively; I did not do that. And just to get them to focus.” “Obviously in March, we’re only guaranteed that 40 minutes each game, so there’s no time to goof around and think we’re going to win it,” Johnson said.
“I’ve been on that side of it where you watch film and you go, ‘OK, we’ve got this, you know what you’re going to do,’” Roberts said of Gardner-Webb’s struggles with their size. “And then you get out there and it’s not as — everything is easier on film. It’s that Mike Tyson quote of, ‘Everyone has a game plan until they get punched in the mouth.’ It's such a luxury to have a player like [Pili].
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