Patricia Sue "Pat" Summitt was the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteer basketball team until 2011 when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. As a women's head college basketball coach, over the course of her university career, she had a 1,098 career wins, the most by any coach in NCAA basketball history.

Coach Summitt often stated, "Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships." When asked the following question. What core principles are critical to the success of the Tennessee Lady Volunteer basketball team program? Summitt said that at Tennessee, "it is defense and rebounding." While she and her staff were able to recruit many of the nation's best offensive players, the real key to winning games was the ability to get players to rebound and defend.

The core principles of defense and rebounding were stressed in pre-practice talks, worked on in drills, reinforced with coaching, and reprimanded with team running when someone forgot to do them. They were also discussed and monitored before, during, and after games. The coaches and managers listed and discussed the rebounding and defensive stats at halftime and at the end of each game - so the players always know where they stood.

See: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/pat-summitt-obit/

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