Cheryl Burnett
Cheryl Burnett
Cheryl Elaine Burnettis an American former women's college basketball coach and player. She was the head coach of the Southwest Missouri State women's basketball team from 1987 to 2002. At Southwest Missouri State, she compiled a 319–136 recordand led her teams to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament in 1992 and 2001. She also served as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team from 2003 to 2007, compiling a record of 35–83. She played college basketball...
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Our seven kids have just done an incredible job of hanging in there. You can see it in their faces and in their eyes. It gives us great hope for next year when we add numbers and get our three leading scorers back. It's a special group of kids. It shows their integrity and their heart.
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Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.
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Either we were scoring or we were turning the ball over. We thought this was a good time to play them with them coming off two tough games, but we didn't execute well enough.
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When you're down at halftime with the season we've had, it would have been easy to quit. They didn't. They fought back. That takes an incredible amount of heart and integrity.
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We were still within shouting distance. And then of course they busted it open.
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I'd like to answer that question honestly, but we have seven. It's not like it's going to change.
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My expectation will be -- has been every year -- it will always be to get into the NCAA tournament, whatever that means. I will be disappointed if that does not happen this year.
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We have seven (players). We just have to deal with it. Two of the volleyball players got in tonight.
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Those two seniors have done a great job of being leaders. They're both such special players. I love the way they compete. I didn't get to see them as freshmen. But I'm sure it didn't matter.
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We have great respect for Michigan State. And sometimes fans need to learn from fans what they need to do.
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We put ourselves in a position (to win). A couple of shots go in, we get a couple more (defensive) stops and we win a game. I'm proud of our kids for battling, but we're not a program that just wants to battle (with) people. We want to beat people.
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It looks like if we just played the second half, we would have won the game. I'm real proud of how our kids fought back.
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It looks like if we had just played the second half, we could have won.
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The volleyball kids' listening skills are incredible. You just ask them to do something and they go out on the floor and do it.