Bill Fennelly
Bill Fennelly
Bill Fennelly is the head women's basketball coach at Iowa State University. He has an all time coaching record of 596-250, coming from tenures as the head coach of the Toledo Rockets and the Iowa State Cyclones. In March 2007, Fennelly inked a "lifetime" contract with the Cyclones to continue as head coach for the remainder of his career...
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It's just been one of those weird things, and you really can't explain it. You see kids that can stand here (in practice) and make 20 shots in a row and then we struggle (in games).
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I don't know if I can make it that long. Will my son be a good head coach? Absolutely, positively there is no doubt in my mind that he will be a good coach.
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If we play as hard as we did at Minnesota and play really, really smart, I honestly think we could go 16-0. If we don't play hard and we don't play smart, we could be 0-16.
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For back-to-back nights, we've really struggled to make shots, and that's something this team needs to do.
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They're a team that understands how to win. We needed to make one more play to get the game closer. We just didn't have enough of the extra plays that we have to make to have a chance to win.
game looking schedule
They're doing the same thing we're doing. They're looking at their schedule going, 'Who can we beat?' They've got this game circled and so do we.
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The last 18 minutes, our kids played the way that Iowa State teams are supposed to play. When you're on the road, down 19 points, your point guard isn't playing, and you have a chance to win it at the end -- that says a lot about your players.
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The players did it; they just willed themselves to some things. They played with an amazing amount of energy. We've come from behind a lot, and we just kept plugging away.
defended playing
We're playing hard. I thought we rebounded and defended hard. But offensively, we're really struggling.
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We're playing hard; we're scratching, we're fighting and I thought we defended really, really solid. Offensively we're really, really struggling right now.
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To the players' credit, they didn't panic. That's not about coaching or game planning. It's about the people you have. We'll build off of this.
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You can't be the leader just when you want to be the leader. You have to be the leader all the time.
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This was as good of a team effort as we've had in a long time. I'm very proud of them. This is not going to go down in history as an earth-shaking, dramatic top 10 win for Iowa State women's basketball, but I don't think you can tell the kids that and I don't think you can tell the coaches that. It was special.
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We were trying to go for a quick two or (go) in and right back out. They were switching everything, so we were trying to go quickly to the basket.