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...
asked kids
Our kids were patient, just like I asked them to be.
last offensive
You (may) think the last play is the game. I think there was a little spurt of turnovers on the offensive end that got us.
ahead challenge energy excited gym knew next offense
The first half, (we) showed energy and knew why you were in the gym and excited about the challenge that was ahead of us. In the next 10 minutes, it was turnover city. The offense never got cooking.
control game kids seen
I've never seen two kids control a game so much in my life.
court ran throw
That's what we should have done, come down the court and throw it off their legs. Every inbounds play that we ran worked.
chip team
If they didn't chip away and chip away, I would have thought a different team showed up.
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.
learn
We got through it. We'll go back and look at the film and learn something from it.
fans great guard guards history penn please point tough
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.
came fought happy kids patient winning
We're happy to be here one more night. We fought very, very hard, our kids were patient and we came up on the winning side.
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.
fade faded fading game michigan minutes night seven time
With Michigan State, it was seven minutes to go in the game and we fade away. The other night (against Minnesota) with 2 1/2 minutes to go we were winning, then we faded away. So, the time that we are fading away is getting (smaller). We're making progress.
moral stretch work
There are no moral victories. We have some things down that stretch that we are going to work on.
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.