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...order to win the big games, you've got to make the big plays," said Tennessee coach Pat Summitt...
...were committed to our running game and they were committed to theirs," said Summitt...
...some ways, in fact, women's basketball is superior to men's. According to Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, "It's more of a team sport. You can watch the strategy evolve over the course of a game." Her players are far closer to the ideal of the student athlete. They have a 100% graduation rate since Summitt took over the program in 1975. The women are also more accessible to the public than are the men. And because the tickets are cheaper, crowds at women's basketball games tend to be more family oriented. "We have more gray hair...
Connecticut may be wild about the Huskies, but no state is as crazy about women's basketball as Tennessee, which sent four teams to stop Connecticut in the tournament: Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Tennessee State and Memphis State. Summitt has taken her team to the tourney 12 times in 20 years, and she won three NCAA titles between 1987 and 1991. Back in '75, she was Pat Head, and she had to drive the team bus. Now, Summitt is so cherished that she earns an annual salary of $118,000, not counting a shoe contract, a car and her own radio show...
Like their counterparts in men's basketball, the women's coaches have to do a lot of recruiting. But Summitt once had a recruiting experience Bobby Knight will never have. Four years ago, while the then pregnant coach was visiting Marciniak's home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Summitt's water broke. She flew home to Knoxville, where she gave birth to her son Tyler. But she didn't deliver the point guard until Marciniak decided to transfer after her freshman year at Notre Dame...