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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We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.
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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.
chip team
If they didn't chip away and chip away, I would have thought a different team showed up.
amazing team
That's pretty amazing on a team that's regrouping and rebuilding.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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.
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I thought my kids played really hard. A lot of things were memorable.
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We got through it. We'll go back and look at the film and learn something from it.