Rene Portland
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"Maureen Theresa "Rene" Muth Portland" is an American former head women's college basketball coach known for her 27-year tenure with the Pennsylvania State University/Penn State Penn State Nittany Lions/Lady Lions basketball team. Her career resume includes 21 National Collegiate Athletic Association/NCAA tournament appearances including a Final Four appearance in 2000, one AIAW national tournament appearance (1977), five Big Ten Conference Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball regular season champions/championships and two Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Tournament/conference tournament titles. Portland is one of few women's basketball coaches to have won 600 or more games at a single school, with a career record of 606–236 at Penn State. Her notoriety grew when it was revealed that she had for decades discriminated against homosexual players on the Penn State women's basketball team.

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You get tired of losing at certain places. That's all part of maturity.

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.

A road win, a home win, anything is going to be real important to us.

A road win, a home win, any win is going to be big for us right now. We need to get a win.

I believe the process to reach these conclusions was flawed. I believe the process failed to fairly consider and weigh all of the relevant information provided or which could have been provided.

No. Just stay at it.

It's a still a work in progress. But I think the bye weekend came at a good time.

Let me make absolutely clear that the only reason Jennifer Harris is no longer with the Lady Lions is because of her performance and attitude in relation to basketball.

It is unfortunate that [Harris] has chosen to attack me for her lack of success at Penn State. However, her lack of success had everything to do with her lack of commitment to basketball.