Jody Conradt
Jody Conradt
Jody Conradt is a retired women's basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin. Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007. She also served concurrently as the UT women's athletic director from 1992 to 2001. During her tenure at UT, she achieved several notable personal and team milestones in collegiate basketball. At retirement, she had tallied 900 career victories, second place...
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I would think extending the court could be one of our biggest changes and something we'll try to take advantage of.
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They were aggressive. We gave them way too many fast-break baskets in the first half. I think I counted up (that) there were 26 points off turnovers and fast-break points they had in the first half.
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I will say about the WNIT, I remember our football team had to go a couple times to the Holiday Bowl. There was not a great deal of excitement about doing that, and this WNIT is not the NIT.
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I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.
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Marsha is one of those solid people in our profession who has really been instrumental in the growth of our sport.
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for what he's done for our game. No one was more successful than Dean Smith.
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That's not the first time she's hit a shot that was like a dagger.
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so you can imagine there's a strong sense of urgency.
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The scoring hasn't been what we thought it would be. But if you look at the rest of her line, it's incredible.
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It's a hard job, and she's been doing it a long time and doing it really, really well. She'll be missed not only at Texas Tech and by the players she's coaching, but in the basketball community. She's one of the solid people who has been really instrumental in the growth of our sport.
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Marsha's obviously done it with class and with style. It's hard to see someone leave our profession who dates back to a time when none of us really knew the potential of our sport. ... You hope there's never a sense of the loss of history.
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This team is Nina?s team, there?s no question about that. It?s always been the senior leadership that has to step forward and Nina has played every game since she stepped on this campus and she?s been in a lot of crucial situations ? and she?s the only one.
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We're improving, but I don't know if we're improving quickly enough. This team has been on its heels for some time. We've been in a perfect storm.
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We've had a lot of adversity, and I think losing Tiffany was pretty much the final straw tonight. The one intangible that we've been missing with this team is they haven't understood how to stay connected with adversity.