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...
definitely environment help tough
I think this will definitely help us. When you go through a tough environment like this, it makes you tough.
finds kid tough
She's a winner. She's just a tough little kid and she finds a way to win.
decision foul good knew leader point score tough
She's our point guard, our leader and a winner. She's tough and I knew she would make a good decision and score or get to the foul line.
eventually felt good knew lots run sloppy tempo tough
A little sloppy at times, but we knew it was going to be a tough game. We're a team, with the tempo we play, lots of times we play in runs. We felt like we eventually could go on a run and get a pretty good lead.
great maryland tough worthy
Yes, Maryland is worthy of that. They are a great team. And they are young, so they are going to be tough for a long time.
knew tough
We knew they were going to give us a tough game, and they did.
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.
approach attitude players
Our players are just like, 'Tell us who we'll play and we'll go play. That's our attitude and that's the way we'll approach it.
came days game plan playing push row tempo three
Our game plan was to push the tempo as much as we could. I think playing three days in a row is really tough, but they came out with a lot of gas.
biggest challenge energy high team tournament wait
My biggest challenge is to keep this team level, to keep them down, to keep them from exploding. This is a high energy group. They're fun. They can't wait for tournament time.
harder lots people physical teams
When teams get physical with her, that makes her play even better. We've had lots of people try to take her down. The more physical it is, the harder and better she plays.
feed great helps mixing post pressure putting
We were mixing things up and they weren't able to feed it into the post. And we were putting great pressure on the ball, and that helps our post players, too.
balance strength
That balance is the strength of our team.
downfall ncaa
I think right now that's probably the downfall of the NCAA tournament.