Debbie Ryan
Debbie Ryan
Debbie Ryan is the former head coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Virginia. Ryan also coached the American women's basketball team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2000 but is currently in remission. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. Ryan was also inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2012...
faith practice strides strongly though
I have a lot of faith in this team, and I feel really strongly about this team. Even though we're really young, they're making strides and they're going in the right direction. They practice hard, and I know we're going to get better and better.
practice
You won't get away with anything in practice if Tiffany's out there.
adjust game good normally physical team tonight
The physicality of the game is something that you have to adjust to. You have to adjust to those things and this team usually adjusts to that. They're pretty good with the physical part of the game, but tonight I didn't feel like we were as physical as we normally are.
kept
We kept going to her and she kept delivering.
chance game gave plan players post sure
We gave her the chance to get some experience, but it wasn't the game plan at all. I had to make sure I had post players to end the game, because they're a very big team.
expect half kept second veteran
We just kept going to her in the second half and she just kept delivering. That's what you expect from your veteran players.
credit hitting letting shots tech
You have to give Tech credit for not letting us get closer. They were hitting their shots tonight.
bad maintain shots
You have to give (FSU) a lot of credit. We started off like gangbusters. But we couldn't maintain it. We had some bad shots tonight, for sure.
ball bit hole ourselves shoot start
We got ourselves in a little bit of a hole to start the game. We didn't shoot the ball very well, and we did some things that were uncharacteristic.
character courage good match played point run though
Even though we got down a little bit, we still made a little run to come back. We played a pretty good first half. We showed a lot of character and courage in the first half, being able to match them point for point.
ball good playing
We've been playing good ball lately, and we're home.
couple home lost
We lost a couple at home when we didn't play very well. That made the difference.
best good leadership might past points wait
We'll have to wait and see just how good we are, where we're going to get our points from. I'd say it might be my most inexperienced group, (but) it's the best leadership we've had in the past 13 years.
blew carolina doors exposed happened stretch team wrong
I don't know what happened to us, but the doors blew off. Carolina exposed about everything that was wrong about our team in that one stretch there, and that was all she wrote.