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...
last offensive
You (may) think the last play is the game. I think there was a little spurt of turnovers on the offensive end that got us.
answer
Defensively, we didn't have an answer for her.
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The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.
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I was confronted with what I continue to believe are unfounded claims that I caused a player to leave the Lady Lions team because of her race and alleged perceptions of sexual orientation.
offensive sets
Kudos to their defense. We couldn't get into our offensive sets if we had tried. Turnovers were not only self-induced.
asked kids
Our kids were patient, just like I asked them to be.
bit bought felt good storm weathered
It bought us a little bit of time. When we weathered the storm in the first half, I felt good about that.
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Let me make absolutely clear that the only reason Jennifer Harris is no longer with the Lady Lions is because of her performance and attitude in relation to basketball.
talk
Can we just talk about basketball? I want to talk about basketball.
coach energy great hard kids playing stuff time
Any time you play a new coach it's hard because we really don't know their stuff yet. Their kids are playing with great energy because they have a new coach.
home road
A road win, a home win, anything is going to be real important to us.
bit momentum pick statement strong themselves
They made a little bit of a statement to themselves today. We need to pick up some momentum and go strong here.
meeting walk week
They'll know when they walk out of that meeting what this week is all about and the opportunities that they have.
ball capable floor jump shot
If you don't make her put the ball on the floor she's going to get jump shot after jump shot. She's more than capable of making them in that situation.