Beckie Francis
Beckie Francis
Beckie Sue Francisis a basketball coach, most recently head coach of the Oakland University women's basketball team. At Oakland, she compiled a 227–162record, and has a 257–210career head coaching record. She coached two Kodak All-Americans and 11 all-conference players during her tenure. Francis led Oakland to three consecutive postseason appearances, with two NCAA tournament bids and one WNIT appearance...
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At least we know the scouting report. Jim Foster does a nice job, but at least we're somewhat familiar with them. Now, we got to go back to work and prepare to play another tall center.
enjoying experience great support time
The support we've had is amazing. It's a great experience. I'm really enjoying it this time around.
That was brutal. It was torture, only because we really wanted to see where we were going to go.
believe love passion tough wept
When I resigned, I resigned. So I wept over it and I grieved. I got therapy. It was tough because I love coaching. I really believe it's a passion and it's a gift.
enjoying
I am a different person. I'm enjoying it.
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She's an incredible player. I was thinking if they go to her every time, we're in trouble. I don't know how Western Illinois coaches, but I would almost be like, 'Don't anybody else shoot it. Just give it to her.
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They did a nice job pounding inside against us with a height disadvantage. Sometimes I think it's almost not fair. Take out the 6-5 and let's have a game.
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They did a nice job of pounding it in against us. Sometimes it's like it's not fair. It's like, take out the 6-5 kid and let's have a game.
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Our teams are close. We really appreciate the men sticking around and cheering us on. They showed us that we can do it.
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I already know we're going to see a lot of the same stuff, and he might say the same about us. It's going to be a tough challenge for us, but we accept it. We know we're going up against one of the best teams in the country.
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He is very humble. I did mention to him earlier that I saw his 200-page media guide and he's on page 84. It's all about Ohio State, it's all about his players and the academic service center. I told him I respected that.
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That actually really hurt us. I didn't know (Merrill) was that good. She was good. ... She's the one who killed us, I felt. We couldn't double-team on Davenport off of her, because she was so tough. All of them were a little taller than we were used to playing, and that affected us.
amazing year
This is just amazing in my first year back .... It's surreal.
excited playing
I'm actually as excited as you can be excited about playing a No. 1 seed. It'll be fun.