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 for the most part in our program, we've had a lot of success just through how we've gone about recruiting and making decisions not to recruit kids on the front end that we didn't think would be a good fit. But obviously, we've had our mistakes, too.
I was pleased that we managed to make some adjustments because they were getting good open looks against us and we weren't communicating as well defensively.
I think we're a better basketball team now than when we played them. I feel good that we can go inside against them.
When a team takes ownership, good things happen.
We weren't good in any aspect of our game tonight.
Normally we open in a zone. We opened in a man I wanted us to come out and pressure, have good energy.
She's like me. We're extremely competitive. But we're good enough friends so that we've been able to compete knowing that when you do, you know there's a winner and loser. But the friendship goes beyond basketball.
Obviously it's always good to get a win. We have to get better. You don't fix it in one game.
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.
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 want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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.