Cathy Inglese
Cathy Inglese
Cathy Ingleseis the former head coach of the University of Rhode Island women's basketball team. She was previously the head women's basketball coach at Boston College until she abruptly resigned following a 21-win 2007-08 season featuring second round exits from the ACC Women's Basketball Tournament, losing to the University of Maryland, and from the Women's National Invitation Tournament, losing to St. Johns University. She posted 20 win seasons in seven out of her last eight seasons, and guided her team...
coming confident continued players plug
The players were confident coming into today's game. They continued to plug along.
ball defense defensive game games keeps played players rhythm type wins
The players first said how embarrassed they were with the type of defensive game they played tonight. Our defense keeps us in games and wins us ball games, keeps us close. We just got out of a rhythm from the start.
common players seeing strength stressed
I think it will become more common because players are getting more athletic. I think you're seeing strength and conditioning stressed more. Will it be as common as the men's game? No. But it will be more common.
days finish forward fresh instead looking players ready regular season teams
Our players are looking forward to a fresh start. We didn't finish the regular season the way we would have liked, but after 10 days off we're ready to play other teams instead of ourselves.
extremely players pleased putting team
I'm extremely pleased with the victory. I think it showed the kind of team we are. We don't have just one or two players putting up points.
basket best career game hunger number
What number was she? No, I'm kidding. She's outstanding. I don't know if that was the best game of her career or not, but I think she had that hunger to get the basket and score.
certainly
We certainly want to play in Boston. But right now, it's New Mexico.
played tapes watched
We watched those tapes just to see how they played us defensively.
aggressive hard passes slapping smarter talked
We talked about it at the half, that we had too many turnovers, that we need to be smarter with the ball. Not to be cautious, but be smarter with our passes and come hard to the ball. There's going to be a lot of slapping and reaching, some of it may be called or not be called, but we had to be more aggressive with the ball.
conference ready tough whatever
We just had a tough schedule. What we went through in our conference made us ready for whatever was going to come.
closing five four job last minutes nice second virginia
Virginia did a nice job closing us down in the second half. It was a hard-fought game, but I was disappointed the last four or five minutes in some of the turnovers.
ball foul game inside last played season successful time trying
We were very successful the last time we played of getting the ball inside and trying to get to the foul line. In this game we just didn't get to the foul line. All season when we've been successful we've done that very, very well.
ability brings calmness command great guard point scoring teammates
Megan is really efficient. She has a command for the game. She directs her team. She brings a really great calmness to her teammates and she also has the ability to score. A scoring point guard makes that person even more dangerous.
ball distribute drive glad likes people pull sarah
She can shoot. Sarah likes to distribute the ball and get other people to do. But when she's open, she can drive and has the pull up ability. I'm glad she got to show that today.