Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt
Patricia Sue "Pat" Summittwas an American college basketball head coach whose 1,098 career wins are the most in NCAA basketball history. She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012, before retiring at age 59 because of a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She won eight NCAA championships, a number surpassed only by the 10 titles won by UCLA men's coach John Wooden and the 11 titles won by UConn...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 June 1952
CityClarksville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
I think this team deserves a No. 1. Now, whether we're going to get it or not, that's up to the committee.
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
We have a mutual respect for this game and working with young people, not just on the basketball court but to see these young women become confident and successful in career opportunities beyond basketball.
We have to win that basketball game to have a chance to win the league, and that's still our goal.
Her wheels -- the spokes sometimes seem to come out. I always look to see what she grabs.
We were frustrated, but we did not have any quit in us.
I don't think you can say that a coach that hasn't won a championship isn't a great coach. You have to have breaks along the way, and you have to have a dominant player.
I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,
If this team doesn't understand that is has to rebound, then someone is going to drill them and they'll figure it out.
I don't know what we did wrong. You have to look at the strength of schedule. We're No. 1 and if I'm not mistaken Ohio State is No. 21. And their conference is No. 7. Those two things don't add up.
Obviously I'm very pleased with the intensity, the enthusiasm on the bench and everyone who got on the court. We played well together.
Obviously it was a win, but I didn't see a lot of things that were favorable out there tonight. Our bench play was poor in the first half.
Obviously Candace wanted the ball in her hands. She's a player that can see over people as well as go around people.