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 told her I was really proud of her. Obviously, I worked with her for 18 years and I have watched her build this team and this program. I think she has done a remarkable job.
I told her I was really proud of her. And I am. I've watched her build this program. And she had her team really ready. But what bothers me, they were more inspired for 40 minutes than we were.
It's all recruiting. Not just a Duke or North Carolina. You've got Maryland in the mix. The people at the top have forced everyone else to elevate their intensity and recruiting, and that enhances their opportunity to compete at a different level.
There was way too much Jackson. She's a great anchor for their program.
They're a solid basketball team. They've got all the parts.
It's awesome to see where she is now. Even for me as a coach, it's hard to believe how much better she is coming off screens, creating her own shot and scoring in transition.
Another valuable lesson was handed to us. Our defense and ball-handling killed us.
As a great long-range shooter, she has drawn the best defender, usually the most athletic, sometimes players with a lot of size. In essence, with her ability to shoot the ball the way she can, she has become a target for every team we play.
A typical, I think, Georgia-Tennessee match-up is on the way because they like coming down and we like to push tempo as well. So it's going to be a big test for us. We've had some down-to-the-wire games; this could be the same.
Normally we open in a zone. We opened in a man I wanted us to come out and pressure, have good energy.
Our defense and ball handling killed us. Probably what bothered me most is that we went into overtime and mishandled the ball and didn't execute.
I've talked to her about our team. (I talked to her) when I wasn't really happy with them and she's talked to me about her team and we probably figured we'd see each other in the end.
I've watched her build this team and this program over the last three years and I think she's done a remarkable job. She had her team ready.
It was very apparent that Duke wanted this game and they went after it in a much more aggressive, determined way than we did. Quite a difference in how their defense affected what we did offensively and what we did to them. They pretty much ran what they wanted to run. They handled traps. Defensively, they disrupted us and we did not disrupt them.