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February 26, 1999

June Daugherty Quotes
Washington vs. USC

GENERAL REMARKS:
"I thought it was a tremendous team performance tonight. Jamie Redd had a great game. Offensively she stepped up big, she got her teammates involved with some of those passes and had a variety of awesome moves. The bench responded extremely well, tonight they were ready to play."

ON THE INJURY TO AMBER HALL:
"Amber Hall has a sprained ankle. She has pins in there from an earlier injury so it doesn't feel real good right now. We'll see how she does tonight and do treatment tomorrow to try and get her ready for Saturday. Amber is a warrior and we're doing all we can to get her ready for Saturday, it's her senior night."

ON USC
"We knew that with Adrain Williams back in their line-up USC is a good team. They're young but they have some extremely athletic kids. I think they're still going to pull some upsets."

ON THE ZONE DEFENSE:
"The zone was working for us. We were forcing turnovers and making them take bad shots and consequently we stayed with it longer than we had planned. It was very effective so we stayed with it."

ON JULIA GRAY'S PERFORMANCE:
"We got a really solid performance from Julia Gray. She played a lot of minutes. Defensively, in player to player, she really stepped up the pressure. I liked her penetration and dishes tonight as well as her aggressiveness on the break. Sometimes she finished and sometimes she didn't but she has to do that as a point guard to get the defense to respect her. The little freshman had a real nice game for us."

Washington Womens Basketball Player Quotes Jaime Redd (on playing last game against Chris Gobrecht): Its probably rewarding for hershe doesnt have to see us anymore (Jamie says jokingly). Actually, it will be a lot easier for her to come here and play Washington now that the people she was coaching will be gone.

Megan Franza (on contributions from the bench): We talk about this all the time. She (coach Daugherty) asks us everyday at practice and we talk about it within our team, about how people need to be ready to play coming off the bench. That was one thing we said about our last game when we lost to Cal, we werent ready to play. I think everyone came out with fire in their eyes tonight.

(on feelings about tonights game after the loss to CAL): For me, I couldnt wait to get back on the basketball court. After a disappointment like that, it tears your heart out but its nice to be able to come back in one week and play again. Tonight showed us that we still know how to play and its not the end of the world. (on postseason play): If the NIT is an opportunity for us, I want to play. Any kind of post-season play that we can get into, I want to play. Ill goes as far as we can and in any option that we get. If we have the opportunity to go to the NIT, then my goal is to win the NIT.I would like to make it into the NCAA tournament too, but any way to play is what I want to do and I think the team feels the same way.

USC Head Coach Chris Gobrecht
General Remarks: "It was so hard to see us miss so many lay ups and I think that happens. We're trying to keep our heads out of the water and even the little things seem hard. When you battle like this team has battled, things seem to be harder. With every missed lay up the life seem to be sucked out of us. All the little shots took it out a little at a time. It's hard, I don't know how much fight we have in us."

On UW's seniors: "I thought the seniors just played great. It was very nice to see Jamie play well and do things she is capable of doing. Jamie was all the things Jamie can be. She carried the team to another level. She put the knife right in our hearts. They are just the better team. They played hard and inspired."

GAME NOTES
UW leads the series 16-10...UW won first meeting in LA, 79-71 (Jan. 30)...Chris Gobrecht is 0-2 in Seattle vs. her old team...UW is now 10-3 at home.

Jamie Redd was the game-leading scorer with 19 points, her 22nd season game with double-digit points. Megan Franza had 13 points, her 16th game in double-digits.

USC was led by a trio of double-digit scorers -- Tiffany Washington (12), Adrain Williams (12), and Tiffany Elmore (11)

UW shot 50% (30-for-60) from the field; It is only the second time all season UW shot 50% or better. The last time was 53.1% vs. Washington State, Jan. 4.

UW starters 52 points, USC starters 24.

USCs 51 rebounds were a season high...the 26 offensive rebounds were a UW opponent season high... USCs 28 first half rebounds as well as the 13 offensive rebounds are the most UW has allowed in a first half all season.

USCs .293 field goal percentage (22-75) was the second worst for a UW opponent this season.

USCs .243 field goal percentage for the first half on 9-for-37 shooting is the UWs second worst for an opponent this season. USC began game 1-for-19, and ended 8-for-18.

At 11:48 mark of first half, UW led 13-3 and USC was 1-for-13 from field...When USC had 7 points at the 10:37 mark, they had 5 from the free throw line.

Amber Hall had 9 points and 8 rebounds, before leaving the game late with a sprained left foot...She needs 23 rebounds to take over first place all-time in school history...Carlin McClary has the No. 1 position with 982 rebounds from 1978-82... Hall ranks 7th on the Pac-10 all-time career rebounding chart...Halls 9 points gives her 1,267 in her 100th career game, which passes 8th place Laurie Merlino.

Jamie Redd and Amber Hall are the first UW senior duo to rank in the top 10 in career rebounding. Jamie Redd has 686 career rebounds and ranks 10th. The last time UW had two seniors in the top 10 in all-time scoring was 1991 when Karen Deden (6th, 1,596) and Laurie Merlino (8th, 1,262) played.

Redd needs 19 points to become the 8th-most prolific scorer in Pac-10 history. Redd has 1,938 career points. Stefanie Kasperski, Oregon (1987-90) with 1,956 points holds the 8th place.

Redd has 333 career assists which ranks 8th on the schools career chart.

Hall has 239 rebounds this season which leads the Pac-10, 16th nationally...She needs 9 rebounds to rank as the 10th best rebounding game in history.

Julia Gray took hold of the 5th-best mark for steals in a season with 4 steals tonight and now 76 for the season...She leads Pac-10 with 3.08 spg.

Amber Halls registered her 23rd block on the season which puts her in sole possession of 8th best for a UW individual in a season...She had 24 in 1997 as a sophomore