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...
happy
We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.
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Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.
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Can we just talk about basketball? I want to talk about basketball.
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They'll know when they walk out of that meeting what this week is all about and the opportunities that they have.
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I was confronted with what I continue to believe are unfounded claims that I caused a player to leave the Lady Lions team because of her race and alleged perceptions of sexual orientation.
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The holding was unbelievable and Amanda got killed.
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I'm pleased for the three girls. They should enjoy it, but also it should give them motivation to continue up the ladder of those kind of awards.
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My career has been built on treating all Lady Lion players with equal respect.
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I thought my kids played really hard. A lot of things were memorable.
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A road win, a home win, anything is going to be real important to us.
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Any time you play a new coach it's hard because we really don't know their stuff yet. Their kids are playing with great energy because they have a new coach.
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They only have 10 kids on their team. It could be us looking in the mirror. We're going to slug it out.
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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.
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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.