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...
fans great guard guards history penn please point tough
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.
deep dig ourselves
We just dig ourselves too deep a hole.
certain losing tired
You get tired of losing at certain places. That's all part of maturity.
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.
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.
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.
credit
We were really out of sync. You have to give credit to their defense.
chip team
If they didn't chip away and chip away, I would have thought a different team showed up.
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.
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.
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.
moral stretch work
There are no moral victories. We have some things down that stretch that we are going to work on.
kids played
I thought my kids played really hard. A lot of things were memorable.