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...
games good great sit stay together
I'd like to see their predictions come true. We can't sit back after these two games and say 'great' because we're not great yet but if we stay together as a team, a lot of good things can happen.
deep dig ourselves
We just dig ourselves too deep a hole.
court guard instead ohio point program red understand walked youth
When we walked into Ohio State, our point guard thought the court was bigger. She didn't understand it was just red instead of blue. ... The youth of this program has been pretty comical at times.
credit
We were really out of sync. You have to give credit to their defense.
advantage tried
We let some things get away from us. We didn't take advantage of that. We tried to get some penetration and didn't succeed.
amazing team
That's pretty amazing on a team that's regrouping and rebuilding.
amazing call claim gets keeps obviously officials rules saying teams
It's amazing that everyone keeps saying it but that officials don't call it. How come one teams gets that claim to fame, when obviously there are the same rules for all of us.
moral stretch work
There are no moral victories. We have some things down that stretch that we are going to work on.
came fought happy kids patient winning
We're happy to be here one more night. We fought very, very hard, our kids were patient and we came up on the winning side.
happy
We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.
backseat beginning newness stuff ten watching
We're getting better at some stuff and there's a will to win. I think in the beginning they were in the backseat watching the Big Ten. ... There was a newness about the Big Ten that they had to understand. Now, we'll see if they understand.
kids looking slug
They only have 10 kids on their team. It could be us looking in the mirror. We're going to slug it out.
beat prepared team weaknesses
A team would have to be very prepared to beat them. You'd have to find any weaknesses and go after them. There aren't many.
court ran throw
That's what we should have done, come down the court and throw it off their legs. Every inbounds play that we ran worked.