Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt
Patricia Sue "Pat" Summittwas an American college basketball head coach whose 1,098 career wins are the most in NCAA basketball history. She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012, before retiring at age 59 because of a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She won eight NCAA championships, a number surpassed only by the 10 titles won by UCLA men's coach John Wooden and the 11 titles won by UConn...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 June 1952
CityClarksville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
We wish them success in all of their future endeavors.
We have a different agenda. But she's a very dear friend of mine. I'm really proud of the year she's had. She's done a great job with her basketball team and with the North Carolina program.
We've just been a very poor defensive team in a lot of games.
What she did is unacceptable in our program. I've never approved of players talking smack or taunting. You let your game do the talking. If you want to get excited, you get excited for the team.
What she's found is that you give these post (players) the basketball, they're very unselfish. If they don't have a good 1-on-1 opportunity, they're kicking it out.
We were pleased we are able to get the tempo up at times. You have to control the paint and we did that.
We weren't good in any aspect of our game tonight.
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
We were frustrated, but we did not have any quit in us.
We can take this and get focused and get ready and earn our respects as we get ready to play Army.
We were more committed and more aggressive defensively. We opened the game running a switching man, and that allowed us to keep constant pressure on the basketball. We just kept pressure on them.
We'll continue to do a lot of teaching and skill work in the next few weeks, ... but this already feels more like a veteran team.
We really wanted them to try to make a lot of outside shots. I thought we did a nice job of limited Humphrey's touches. ... We thought we had to guard her with a guard and a half.
You don't win a basketball game in the first half, but you certainly can lose one.