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...
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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.
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It gives us a tremendous amount of confidence. You're not having to use that first 10, 20 minutes in the first half of the game to get used to each other's style. We already know from the tip that this game's going to be a track meet. Both teams love to score, and both teams love offense.
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Kristi was hitting. It was back and forth with her and Kim. I thought they both stepped up with a lot of confidence.
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All season long this team has played with a chip on their shoulder. They keep taking us for a heck of a ride. It was a tremendous game from both teams and the game plan was to hold North Carolina in the 70s.
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I liked our poise down the stretch. We hit some big shots when we needed to, especially in a game where we were a little out of sync tonight.
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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.
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This is just going to help us. Our kids our disappointed. They believed they could come in here and win this game.
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I love it when the media continues to hype up the Carolina schools. This team is motivated by any challenge you give them, and they definitely responded.
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We talked about it watching film. Utah is very well-coached. They're patient. They're going to use the entire shot clock and you've got to be patient within yourself. You've got to be able to defend. If you have a breakdown they're going to score off of you.
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When it dropped off when I first took the job, I wasn't going to Penn State until we got competitive. There was an unfair advantage with our program being so down.
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This season we've gotten everyone's best shot. I'm extremely proud of this team and what it has accomplished. I still think there are bigger things and better things we can go and get.
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This team has a lot of confidence in themselves and we probably feel like we have more veteran leadership and experience. We feel like we're playing our basketball.
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This team had the heart of a lion tonight. It's hard for me to describe how special this is for our program.
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Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.