Rene Portland
Rene Portland
Maureen Theresa "Rene" Muth Portland is an American former head women's college basketball coach known for her 27-year tenure with the Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team. Her career resume includes 21 NCAA tournament appearances including a Final Four appearance in 2000, one AIAW national tournament appearance, five Big Ten Conference championships and two conference tournament titles. Portland is one of few women's basketball coaches to have won 600 or more games at a single school, with a career record...
control game kids seen
I've never seen two kids control a game so much in my life.
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Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.
coached grade school seen since team walks
We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.
certain losing tired
You get tired of losing at certain places. That's all part of maturity.
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My career has been built on treating all Lady Lion players with equal respect.
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We have our hands full on Sunday. We just have to get our spirits back and we have to learn how to fight. We don't fight. With the three teams that have pressured us, we did not fight. We've got to learn to handle the pressure and we can't make mistakes.
gone previous ride
You just have to ride it out with some people. In previous years I would have gone like this, and I would have gone like that real quick.
kids played
I thought my kids played really hard. A lot of things were memorable.
learn
We got through it. We'll go back and look at the film and learn something from it.
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With Michigan State, it was seven minutes to go in the game and we fade away. The other night (against Minnesota) with 2 1/2 minutes to go we were winning, then we faded away. So, the time that we are fading away is getting (smaller). We're making progress.
bad kids knock move semester socks
We told the kids we want to go from the outhouse to the penthouse. It's like a bad GPA. When you have a bad GPA, every semester you could knock the socks off and you're just going see it move a little bit.
asking bad carried handled kids physical technical took
I don't think our kids handled the physical play, to be honest. I, obviously, took a technical for asking for holding, which I don't think we handled all that well. The frustration from that carried into how bad they played.
asking bring kids parents question relieved
I bring it up, and the kids are so relieved and the parents are so relieved. But they would probably go without asking the question otherwise, which is really dumb.
chip team
If they didn't chip away and chip away, I would have thought a different team showed up.