Chattanooga vs. Mercer
Chattanooga, Tenn. | The McKenzie Arena
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Postgame Quotes
 
Head Coach Shawn Poppie
Opening Statement
"It feels a lot better to be on this side. I tell you that much. There [were] some happy faces in that in that locker room. So proud of them. They deserve what they got. It could have went one of two ways obviously. But they really came together. I told him, I think, yesterday 'All right, we're gonna get to a spot four minutes to go we're gonna look up it's gonna be a one possession game and you're gonna be right back where you've been all year' and we could have folded there how we didn't finish a possession to finish in regulation, but my goodness, we were pretty darn good and overtime. Proud of that so many kids but just them in general to finally get over the hump a little bit.
 
On executing in overtime
"I thought we were locked in we executed as good as we've done all year on the offense. We had a little stretch in the third quarter and we had some times we didn't finish, but I thought we executed as good as we've done all year. Just precise movements and screening and cutting and passing. Some turnovers there during that one little stretch in the in the third quarter but an overtime as good as we've executed all year when we needed it most. We survived that's for sure."
 
On free throws
That was one thing that slowed us down Thursday, 5-for-11 on Thursday [against Samford]. We're able to make them, especially when we needed him down the stretch. You know, it's so hard. Every coach is you know, you gotta practice in stressful situations. You can't mimic this. You can't mimic how tired they are, the crowd on top of you, but they came through it a big, big moment there today.
 
On the Mocs "Big Three" showing up together
"I was proud of Yazz. She was score first mentality, took what they gave her. Between her and Raven and then Abbey came up huge in the second half. We keep joking when will our big three show up in the same day. Abbey came up huge in the second half and then they're in overtime.
 
 
Graduate Center Abbey Cornelius
On losing the lead late and heading to overtime
"Kind of déjà vu that last media timeout. It seems we've been there a million times, but we came out in overtime like some hot pockets.