Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Rhyne Hatchellis the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently has the third most career wins in NCAA women's basketball history, behind only former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer. She competed with USA Basketball as the head coach of the 1994 Jones Cup Team that won the gold in Taipei...
alex behind confident foul ivory job lead nice picked played plays rest running second took
I am very confident with Alex and the rest of them out there. Alex has played a lot this year. She plays with Ivory, and I know when Ivory picked up her second foul and I took her out, we were behind at that time. Alex did a nice job running the team, and we got the lead back.
bracket final tougher
It's like the Final Four! I don't know how any bracket can get tougher than our bracket. ... But hey, that's just the way it is. We have to go play those games.
minutes played second seemed three
For about three minutes in the second half, it seemed like they played on a different level. They toughened up and went to another level.
foul
They made up for it from the foul line.
wants
No way she's 5-6. I look down on her, and I'm about 5-6½. She wants to be 5-6, so we let her be 5-6.
seeds
I don't think the other No. 1 seeds are having to do this.
fell love work
It was her attitude, her demeanor, her smile, her work ethic. I just fell in love with her.
conference hold hope ncaa others selection team
I would hope that (the NCAA selection committee) wouldn't hold one team in our conference back because of one or two others that got No. 1 seeds.
enjoy focused gear task tournament trying
I don't know if we're peaking. But we're focused on our task and what we're trying to do and what we do well, what we enjoy doing and what we feel like we need is going to get us a championship. We gear everything for tournament time.
enjoy focused trying
I don't know if it's peaking. ... I think we're focused on our task, what we're trying to do, and what we do well, what we enjoy doing and what we feel like is going to get us a championship.
gets job loves mess pick time
She loves to pick on me. When it gets time to get the job done now, she'll get on 'em, too. If they mess up or make a mistake, she'll let 'em know in a heartbeat, too.
beat great honor weaknesses
I don't see that they have any weaknesses really. It's an honor to beat them because they're such a great team.
coach diamonds roy salt sunglasses
I don't know if it's the salt air, but I told Coach Roy that I had to put sunglasses on because of the diamonds on Roy's championship ring.
hope
I hope I get to use them one more time.