Brenda Frese
Brenda Frese
Brenda Sue Frese is an American women's basketball head coach and former player. Since 2002, she has served as the head coach of the University of Maryland women's basketball team. In her fourth year as head coach, she won the 2006 Women's National Championship. She won the 2009 ACC Regular Season and Tournament Championships - the women's first ACC Championship since 1989. She won another ACC Championship in 2012 and reached another Final Four in 2014. Maryland moved to the...
biggest chemistry coming depth handle hungry key national next winning
We're going to have even more depth with who we add. The biggest key is going to be how we handle coming back next year. Are we as hungry after winning a national championship? What's our chemistry like?
second stepped
She stepped up big in the second half.
felt shot wants
Shay wants to take the big shot and always has for us. We called the timeout. We just felt like we had to go to Shay or Crystal.
backed beast defend difficult
She is very difficult to defend on the block. She is strong. She is physical. She is aggressive. I thought she really backed us down low. And I thought she was just a beast out there on the glass.
decision difficult obviously tremendous
Obviously it was a difficult decision after having a tremendous year.
certain final players playing seniors tournament ultimately
Seniors are playing for a lot when it comes to tournament play because they know it's their final shot. But it does ultimately come down to players who can play and I don't think you have to be in a certain class.
both forth stepped
Kristi was hitting. It was back and forth with her and Kim. I thought they both stepped up with a lot of confidence.
passes runs second unselfish
When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.
difficult team turn
We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.
competing duke margin talented
We are going to keep competing and we keep getting that margin down. Duke is so talented and so deep.
fact teams three
The fact that it has never been done before in a conference, to have three teams is really special. I think it really validates the three teams and the conference.
anytime hit planning until
We're not planning on them getting hit until anytime after Wednesday.
continue group heck steps taking team
To be able to continue to keep taking steps with this team, they just keep taking us for a heck of a ride. I think you can see by now what makes this team and this group so special.
game hit liked needed poise shots sync
I liked our poise down the stretch. We hit some big shots when we needed to, especially in a game where we were a little out of sync tonight.