Tom Collen
Tom Collen
Tom Collenis a former head women's basketball coach who was most recently the head coach at the University of Arkansas...
ball good inside pound protect shooting team veteran
They're a veteran team that's well-coached. They like to pound the ball inside, but they're also a good shooting team from the perimeter, so they protect their inside game.
ball blow five game great hole incredible knowing ready run shoot
They just set an incredible pace, and want to blow you out in the first five minutes. If you?re not ready to run back in transition, you?re not ready for them to shoot the ball early, and they?re hot, you can find yourself in a hole really, really fast. I think you have to go in there knowing that they have a great home-court advantage, and I think you have to go in there knowing that the game is going to be intense.
against game national points stage
For her to come back and have a big game on the national stage like she did against (Notre Dame) has to give her more confidence. And we could use 20 points out of her against the big dogs.
deserved half last minutes slip
For 37 minutes, we deserved to win. In the last two and a half minutes we let it slip away.
anxious east hearing reading time tournament
They've been hearing about and reading about being in the Big East, and now here we are. We're in the Big East tournament and I think they're anxious to see what the big time is about.
confidence maybe missed reason shot stay
They have every reason to maybe not have as much confidence in themselves. But miraculously, when I let them play through a missed shot here and there, they stay confident. That's why they're out there on the floor.
atmosphere fans great loud top
They have a great atmosphere there. The fans are very exuberant; they?re right on top of you. It?s very loud there. They have a great home-court advantage.
ammunition bad committee leave ncaa resume stuff
There's just a not a lot of bad stuff on our resume right now. But you never want to give the NCAA (selection) committee any ammunition if they want to leave you out.
against entire floor game jazz last needed offense seven shut took
After last game, we needed to get Jazz more into our offense today. She was 12-for-12 from the floor last game and this one she only took seven shots. But our entire offense couldn't do anything against Rutgers. They shut us down.
attention build disappoint hard hope kids media national program time whether won work worked
You work so hard to try and build this program up and the kids have worked so hard, you want to play well, you want the national media to see you play well whether you won or you lost. At the same time you know you're getting all this attention and you just hope you play well enough that you don't disappoint people.
great opportunity
This is a great opportunity for us. We want to see if we can play with them. We want to see if we've improved.