Rene Portland
Rene Portland
Maureen Theresa "Rene" Muth Portland is an American former head women's college basketball coach known for her 27-year tenure with the Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team. Her career resume includes 21 NCAA tournament appearances including a Final Four appearance in 2000, one AIAW national tournament appearance, five Big Ten Conference championships and two conference tournament titles. Portland is one of few women's basketball coaches to have won 600 or more games at a single school, with a career record...
offensive sets
Kudos to their defense. We couldn't get into our offensive sets if we had tried. Turnovers were not only self-induced.
asked kids
Our kids were patient, just like I asked them to be.
kids played
I thought my kids played really hard. A lot of things were memorable.
bit bought felt good storm weathered
It bought us a little bit of time. When we weathered the storm in the first half, I felt good about that.
built career equal lady lion players treating
My career has been built on treating all Lady Lion players with equal respect.
full handle hands learn pressured spirits teams three
We have our hands full on Sunday. We just have to get our spirits back and we have to learn how to fight. We don't fight. With the three teams that have pressured us, we did not fight. We've got to learn to handle the pressure and we can't make mistakes.
gone previous ride
You just have to ride it out with some people. In previous years I would have gone like this, and I would have gone like that real quick.
absolutely attitude clear harris jennifer lady lions longer performance reason relation
Let me make absolutely clear that the only reason Jennifer Harris is no longer with the Lady Lions is because of her performance and attitude in relation to basketball.
court guard instead ohio point program red understand walked youth
When we walked into Ohio State, our point guard thought the court was bigger. She didn't understand it was just red instead of blue. ... The youth of this program has been pretty comical at times.
credit
We were really out of sync. You have to give credit to their defense.
advantage tried
We let some things get away from us. We didn't take advantage of that. We tried to get some penetration and didn't succeed.
learn
We got through it. We'll go back and look at the film and learn something from it.
backseat beginning newness stuff ten watching
We're getting better at some stuff and there's a will to win. I think in the beginning they were in the backseat watching the Big Ten. ... There was a newness about the Big Ten that they had to understand. Now, we'll see if they understand.
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The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.