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...
approach country defend great playing team
The way we've approached it is we're playing the No. 9 team in the country this year. It's a great team, a team that has some new faces, but it's the same approach - very athletic, they defend great.
charge couple led past
Megan has really led the charge the past couple of games.
game lost mean number point won
At this point in the season, aesthetics doesn't mean a lot to me. We won the game a number of times and we lost the game a number of times.
basket finishing job last position
We've got to get more out of them then we did last night. We've got to do a better job of finishing around the basket and getting in better position to score.
amazing amount behind kept played players plugging themselves
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.
challenged credit hard heather huge practice stepped
We challenged Heather pretty hard in practice the other day, and to her credit she stepped in and made some huge shots.
defended playing
We're playing hard. I thought we rebounded and defended hard. But offensively, we're really struggling.
defended fighting playing struggling
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.
build coaching game people
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.
leader
You can't be the leader just when you want to be the leader. You have to be the leader all the time.
free lose talking throws win
We're not talking about free throws that could win or lose a game, we're talking about free throws that could end the season.
early handle opportunity people
We're going to have a lot of people get an opportunity early to see if they can handle this level.
giving guarded half hard hot kept kids
We guarded hard enough in the first half to be in the game. The kids sensed that Britt was hot and we kept giving her the ball. And we just kept guarding like crazy.
coaches dramatic effort good history iowa kids proud state team top win
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.