46 Quotes by Rene Portland

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

We're getting better at some stuff and there's a will to win. I think in the beginning they were in the backseat watching the Big Ten. ... There was a newness about the Big Ten that they had to understand. Now, we'll see if they understand.

There are no moral victories. We have some things down that stretch that we are going to work on.

We're happy to be here one more night. We fought very, very hard, our kids were patient and we came up on the winning side.

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

If they didn't chip away and chip away, I would have thought a different team showed up.

I'd like to see their predictions come true. We can't sit back after these two games and say 'great' because we're not great yet but if we stay together as a team, a lot of good things can happen.

I bring it up, and the kids are so relieved and the parents are so relieved. But they would probably go without asking the question otherwise, which is really dumb.

I don't think our kids handled the physical play, to be honest. I, obviously, took a technical for asking for holding, which I don't think we handled all that well. The frustration from that carried into how bad they played.