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...
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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.
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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.
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We are going to keep competing and we keep getting that margin down. Duke is so talented and so deep.
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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?
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What makes this team so special is the fact that they don't take any of it for granted. They understand the big picture. There is no guarantee for us next year. They understand that.
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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.
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We're not planning on them getting hit until anytime after Wednesday.
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We talked about it watching film. Utah is very well-coached. They're patient. They're going to use the entire shot clock and you've got to be patient within yourself. You've got to be able to defend. If you have a breakdown they're going to score off of you.
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This season we've gotten everyone's best shot. I'm extremely proud of this team and what it has accomplished. I still think there are bigger things and better things we can go and get.
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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.
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This team has a lot of confidence in themselves and we probably feel like we have more veteran leadership and experience. We feel like we're playing our basketball.
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This team had the heart of a lion tonight. It's hard for me to describe how special this is for our program.