. @UKCoachMitchell: "Whenever we win our first national championship, this group will get rings. You've given more than anyone ever asked." pic.twitter.com/KP5t1R76MA
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "Congrats to Ohio State. They earned a good victory today and I wish them well going forward."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "This has been a special experience coaching this team. Our seniors made this a true team."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "I don't think that I have ever been prouder to be the head coach at Kentucky than I am right now, because of this group."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
Epps: "Coach told us that we could come back. We weren't in the locker room defeated. We just tried to attack them in transition."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
Epps on what her time at Kentucky meant to her: "I don't know if I can put it into words. First, thank Coach Mitchell for the opportunity."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
Epps: "This was not the team I started with, but it was the team I finished with. We will leave Memorial Coliseum today as a team."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
Epps: "Basketball is not a career for me. That's not what will define me. The fact I impacted people's lives here matters most."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
Akhator: "I am not an open person, but this team opened me up. They are my family. They are my life. Kentucky is my home away from home."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "I don't know what happened at the beginning of the game. We had great practice yesterday and great walk-thru this morning."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "We just didn't make Ohio State work very hard when we were quick shooting early in the game."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "There is not a lot of difference between a four and a five seed and they played better than we did today."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "A lot of time you try to figure out what is wrong with you and you just don't give the other team enough credit."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM on the legacy Epps/Akhator will leave: "They have taught me more than I ever taught them."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "The gift they gave me was that Honesty, Hardwork, Discipline works. No trophy or award from this tournament would've taught me that."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
MM: "I have to tell you, I don't think I have ever had an experience like this as a coach."
— Kentucky WBB (@KentuckyWBB) March 19, 2017
