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...
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.
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There are no moral victories. We have some things down that stretch that we are going to work on.
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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.
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I thought my kids played really hard. A lot of things were memorable.
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My career has been built on treating all Lady Lion players with equal respect.
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Kudos to their defense. We couldn't get into our offensive sets if we had tried. Turnovers were not only self-induced.
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Our kids were patient, just like I asked them to be.
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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.
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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.
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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.