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. 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.
We remembered that. They had the ball and every opportunity to beat us in the last seconds. You want your team to respect every opponent regardless of record. Our team really respected this team.
We're facing a new opponent and trying to learn as much as we can about Army at this time and get ready for March Madness.
There are some coaches who believe you just let the best players get all the points they can and stop everybody else. Others limit the best player and make other people beat you. For us, we want to guard everybody. But we really want to make sure that we make it hard or at least difficult for that player to continually make the plays.
There is no question that (Army is) very well-coached and Maggie has done a great job.
I think their bench is probably a little more productive at this point in time than ours has been. We've been very inconsistent there. That's where we have to be better in terms of matching their depth in being able to put up numbers off the bench.
We know it's going to be a pretty hostile environment, but our team has been exposed to that. All the players that have played here understand that we go on the road.
When a team takes ownership, good things happen.
Our philosophy has always been you better pack your defense and your board work on the road. Because those ugly nights and those poor shooting nights you just have to grind games out. Today, we just had to grind it out.
Our team responded coming out of halftime. I never even imagined coaching 900 games and it is just wonderful.
Our team respects Texas. They have beaten us four in a row and beat us by 10 last year in Knoxville. We were not surprised.
A lot of this tournament is about where you play and not who you play.
They know as a team they have to get better. We've been talking about this now for four games going into the Duke game as a staff and just basically trying to send out a warning signal to this team.