Debbie Ryan
Debbie Ryan
Debbie Ryan is the former head coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Virginia. Ryan also coached the American women's basketball team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2000 but is currently in remission. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. Ryan was also inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2012...
deep digging holes rule slump stop
We're mired in a slump right now and we're digging a pretty deep hole. And the first rule of holes is to stop digging. But that's all we keep doing right now is keep digging and digging and digging.
ball bring extra understand
With these guys, they have to understand that you have to make it go your way. You have to put a little more into it. You have to bring the ball down. We just don't have that little extra spurt at times to make it happen.
ball shooting
We started out like gangbusters. We were shooting the ball well.
team whether
We started off like gangbusters and everything was going down. With us, it is all about whether or not we are making shots. We are a young team -- that is the way it happens.
couple good next pray upsets
We have probably made a pretty good case, but we just have to pray that there aren't a lot of upsets in tournaments the next couple of days.
adjust game good normally physical team tonight
The physicality of the game is something that you have to adjust to. You have to adjust to those things and this team usually adjusts to that. They're pretty good with the physical part of the game, but tonight I didn't feel like we were as physical as we normally are.
critical error four pull sign within
We would pull within two or four and then we would make a critical error and it would just deflate us. That is a sign of a young, inexperienced team.