Brenda Frese
Brenda Frese
Brenda Sue Frese is an American women's basketball head coach and former player. Since 2002, she has served as the head coach of the University of Maryland women's basketball team. In her fourth year as head coach, she won the 2006 Women's National Championship. She won the 2009 ACC Regular Season and Tournament Championships - the women's first ACC Championship since 1989. She won another ACC Championship in 2012 and reached another Final Four in 2014. Maryland moved to the...
anytime hit planning until
We're not planning on them getting hit until anytime after Wednesday.
committing definitely doors huge maryland opened perspective players talented top validation yes
For her to be able to say yes to Maryland, was a huge validation for our program. I really think it opened up the doors to a lot of perspective student-athletes and recruits out there that, hey, as they see these talented players committing to Maryland, that Maryland is definitely a top choice.
believe both coaches focused game hate heck putting remain stay teams
It was a heck of a game on both ends. Not that they need to keep putting our coaches through this, but we really believe in ourselves. Obviously, both teams hate to lose, but we were able to stay focused and remain inspired.
act behave biggest minute stepped treated
The biggest thing is we never really treated them like freshmen. From the minute they stepped on campus, they didn't act it or behave like it. They wanted the pressure.
exciting
it's going to be a fast-paced exciting game.
finally great room
It's great to finally see this room full.
game hit played prettiest tremendous
It wasn't the prettiest game we've played to date. St. John's had a tremendous game plan, and they hit a lot of big shots.
grind says shows toughness
It says a lot that we were able to grind it out. It shows the toughness of this team.
fact teams three
The fact that it has never been done before in a conference, to have three teams is really special. I think it really validates the three teams and the conference.
competing duke margin talented
We are going to keep competing and we keep getting that margin down. Duke is so talented and so deep.
biggest chemistry coming depth handle hungry key national next winning
We're going to have even more depth with who we add. The biggest key is going to be how we handle coming back next year. Are we as hungry after winning a national championship? What's our chemistry like?
difficult team turn
We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.
passes runs second unselfish
When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.
needed pressure sweet themselves wanting
They put more pressure on themselves than they needed to and the expectations of wanting to get to a Sweet 16.