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 thought it was a game where we developed a lot of character from beginning to end. We were very nervous offensively, but it didn't affect how we played on the defensive end, fortunately.
Obviously I'm very pleased with the intensity, the enthusiasm on the bench and everyone who got on the court. We played well together.
She was tough. She's a freshman, but I thought she played more like a veteran tonight.
She has played a key role for us this season. Now, it's time for this team to step up and find out what they are made of.
She responded maybe even better than I had anticipated. I thought it was important for her to get some quality minutes and as things played out, I wanted to give her more. I had gone in thinking maybe 12 minutes, and she played 17 minutes.
We'd been working on it since we played them in Knoxville. But we hadn't used it.
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.
At Duke, they played great and we played bad. At times, North Carolina overwhelmed us with their speed and quickness.
I thought we played very well together and got the ball inside. We played an efficient game overall, if you just look statistically.
I think we're a better basketball team now than when we played them. I feel good that we can go inside against them.
You can't win games in the first half but you certainly can lose them. We just dug ourselves too deep a hole in that first half. In the second half we played them even but in that first half we were not comfortable.
We weren't good in any aspect of our game tonight.
We were pleased we are able to get the tempo up at times. You have to control the paint and we did that.
We wish them success in all of their future endeavors.