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
What she's found is that you give these post (players) the basketball, they're very unselfish. If they don't have a good 1-on-1 opportunity, they're kicking it out.
What she did is unacceptable in our program. I've never approved of players talking smack or taunting. You let your game do the talking. If you want to get excited, you get excited for the team.
We've just been a very poor defensive team in a lot of games.
We'd been working on it since we played them in Knoxville. But we hadn't used it.
When she took off, I thought she's going to try to dunk the ball. I was good with it. I thought she just committed to it a little too early.
I think it inspired the team so much. You could feel it in the gym.
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.
I think with the players who have been here, regardless of whether they've been in that No. 1 position, that's what we're always trying to be -- the best team.
Her wheels -- the spokes sometimes seem to come out. I always look to see what she grabs.
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,
We lost the ball game in the first half. I don't have any excuses for this team. I don't know when they're going to show up and play.
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.