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Welcome to the Amy Egan podcast where each
week Lyndon Wood University head women's

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basketball coach Amy Egan talks women's
basketball and much, much more.

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We'll talk about past games, future games,
players, the Ohio Valley Conference, NCAA,

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academics, careers, and much, much more.

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Amy, welcome.

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Tough loss on Thursday, but a dominant
performance by Justice Odom in the win on

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Saturday.

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Talk about those games.

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Yeah, you know, I thought Thursday was
tough.

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You know, I think we played a really good,
talented team and UT Martin.

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And you know, the first time that we
played them at third place, we were able

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to come from behind and get a win.

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And you know, we came from behind a lot
and we showed a lot of it to them by

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making plays down the stretch, getting
some steals, getting up in some passing

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lanes.

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Really just going and making plays and I
was really disappointed on Thursday with

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us because From probably the six-minute
marker the third quarter on you know I was

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I kept telling them in every huddle like
we've got to go make plays.

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We've got to go make plays and We just
didn't do those things We just played well

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enough to be in the right spots, but not
make anything happen and so You know I

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said on the radio.

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I don't think we played bad on Thursday we
just weren't willing nobody was willing to

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Put themselves out there and take a chance
to make a play to make something happen

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for us, which we needed to happen So I
thought again we talked a little bit about

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that on Friday before we started game prep
for you for Little Rock And then I thought

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you know in Little Rock game You know,
they're such a different tight They're a

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different type of team a different type of
game in regards to how good they are

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defensively you really got to have a great
mindset going into that because

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it is hard to score against them.

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You're really just trying to find any way
to score against them because they're so

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defensive minded and so good athletically,
physically, everything defensively

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position wise.

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And I thought our mentality on Saturday
was really good.

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I thought we played, our defense was
great.

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We made some things happen.

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I think we turned them over 20 times.

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And so we made some things happen, but we
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And especially down the stretch, I
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Justice was huge for us.

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We were up, I think, 12 right around
there, and then she gets in foul trouble.

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And I'm sitting there on the bench just
going, man, this kid is just making me so

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mad, because if she was in this game, we'd
continue to hopefully stretch that.

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And so, but they made a run at us, and
then we were able to get her back in the

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game and really stretch it.

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I think she had like 16 in the fourth
quarter and stepped up and hit some really

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big free throws for us with it.

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So.

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Just a great performance by her, but also
a great performance by our team on

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Saturday.

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And I think we've talked about this
before, but you're heading toward that

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first, completing that first year at
Lindenwood.

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And just as you come from other places,
what kind of traditions have you started

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already at Lindenwood and maybe ones
you'll look to add in the coming years?

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Yeah, well I think, you know, for us and
our program just in general and overall,

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you know, for us, you know, you talk about
culture and you talk about setting the

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groundwork and laying down your program
this year and I think it's been a lot of

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that, you know.

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We've tried to do everything we can to the
best of our ability with who we want to

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be, how we want to do things, what we want
that to look like on and off the floor

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with our kids.

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You know, I still think there's a lot of
adjustments we'll make after this year

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because it's such a learning process your
first year with how things operate,

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whether it's the other side of campus or
operate within your program or operate

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within your kids and so forth with it.

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But I do think it's really, really
important and having the ability and the

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resources to do team building type stuff
is something that, you know, not only

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brings you, you know, some fun to your
team, but also I think encourages them and

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brings them closer.

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I always feel like anytime you can put
them in vulnerable situations with team

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building is sometimes the best because
then they really learn to each other are

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outside of just on the floor and they kind
of grow that connection and whether that's

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learning how to talk to each other or
learning about their families or maybe

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some of the hardships they've been through
in life.

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I think it really does help.

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When you talk about like traditions and
those kind of things.

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You know, we do a lot of team stuff.

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We do some, we call it PG days, personal
growth days, that are traditions for us

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that I think help with some of the team
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But we also try to do fun activities with
them around holidays or just when we kind

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of feel like we need some of that to help
grow us as a program and team.

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So there's a lot of different things we
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And again, some of that's depending on who
you have in your program and what you feel

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like they need, right?

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And that's different every year with it.

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We definitely try to do as much as we can
and make this a family atmosphere.

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And I think that's really, really
important to carry over onto the floor.

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And kind of in the same line, Coach, and
I've seen some social media posts with

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your players doing some work in the
community.

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In what ways do you encourage that
community engagement and service among

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your players?

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Well, I think a big part of who we are is
being selfless, you know, and we talk a

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lot about that, serving others and being
selfless and, you know, being thankful and

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showing gratitude and the people that do
things for you and those kind of things.

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And, you know, you talk about community
engagement and, you know, I've always said

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and, you know, I know I've said this to my
staff too, is like we need this community

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to fall in love with.

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our kids and us right now as we're
building because if you can get them to

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fall in love with your kids and who you
are as a program and what you represent

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they'll come to games even during the
building process because what I think what

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you find if you look at any great
basketball program is the more they win

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right the more their attendance increase
as well we want that to increase as we're

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building as well so we're trying to get
the community and

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the youth and parents and everyone to fall
in love with who our kids are as people

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first during this building process.

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So for us, we do a lot of things, visiting
classrooms, we do a lot of things where

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we're trying to be out in the community
and trying to increase some of that

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engagement so that they come see a game
and watch us play and fall in love with

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who our kids are as people and want to
come back.

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And one of the challenges that I have just
mentally is thinking about these student

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athletes at whatever level of college.

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And of course, we see them, whether it's
the high end in basketball or whatever

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sport or other ends, other areas.

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They also have school really is a front,
the first item on the agenda.

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How do you manage that balance of being a
high end D1 college student athlete?

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and at the focus on the college education,
which will be their meal ticket for 40

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years after they're done playing for you.

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And I do think it is hard for kids to
manage everything.

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You know, you're talking about 18 to 21
year old kids that, you know, they have

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school, they have basketball, they want a
social life, like they're at that point in

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their life, you know.

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So I think it is really, really tough for
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And we really try to get them to
understand through conversation kind of

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where those priorities lie, you know.

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And for us, we talk about God first,
whatever that may or may not be in their

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life.

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And everybody's different with that.

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We have some kids that go to church every
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Next is family, how important family is
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And then after that, obviously academics,
they are here first and foremost for their

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degree.

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Then basketball and then social life.

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And, you know, if you want to be great at
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social life, you do have to have some.

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some give and take, right?

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You can't, that take for us has to be from
their social life in order to be great,

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the stuff above that.

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So they get it, they understand that.

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We have a lot of those talks in the
recruiting process with them.

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So they understand kind of our
expectations with it and so forth.

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But I do think for our kids and how we do
things, we try to relate everything to

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life.

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And so when you talk about managing some
of that in the classroom.

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Some kids, they do kind of want to come to
college and play basketball, right?

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They forget that in four years it's going
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So talking with them a lot about sometimes
academics are hard, sometimes academics

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are not fun.

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Your first two years of college, sometimes
you study things that you could care less

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about, right?

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That have nothing to do with what you want
to do with your career.

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But you've got to be able to do those
things that you don't want to do to the

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best of your ability in order to grow.

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right, and in order to improve yourself.

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And so just having conversations with them
about that and regarding that and the

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importance of that in four years it is
going to end.

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Let's help teach them as many life lessons
and how they manage a lot of that is so,

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so important.

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And you know, for what it's worth, even
faculty have to do things they don't want

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to do.

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And I realized today I had to submit my
syllabus for the spring two term, and I

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was not happy to have to allocate time to
do that.

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So even at my advanced age, coach, we do
things that we don't want to have to do.

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you gotta do a lot of things in life that
you maybe don't want to do, but it's also

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really important just with that syllabus
that you do it to the best of your ability

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because you know down the road it does
play a factor.

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And so just getting kids to understand
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And Coach, we've talked about a lot of
things in our first year of doing this

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podcast, but one of the things we haven't
talked about is technology.

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What are some of the technologies you
would either like to see come to

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Lindenwood or ones that you're even using
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Yeah, so I think technology is an everyday
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It's an everyday growing thing within the
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I think even from, if you look at from two
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it's emails I get every day or

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the amount of people that reach out that
want to talk to us about, hey, we have

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this technology that can figure this out
with this kid and this out and how to do

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scattering reports and that just keeps
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And so, you know, when we started this
synergy thing that a lot of schools use

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now, when we first started, I mean, you
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Like with all the analytics of it and
everything, you could get lost for hours.

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You have to really figure out what you
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and what you're going to pick and choose
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every week basis, whatever that is.

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But it is really, really important.

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You can learn a lot, you can teach a lot.

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You know, it becomes ever-changing even
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because they're so used to technology
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It's probably not my strong point with it,
but I rely a lot on our assistants to make

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sure that we're up to date with it and
we're using things.

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But like for instance, we use...

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an app called Teamworks that tracks
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We have it just all laid out for the whole
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And then we edit it usually once a week if
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That's how we send text messages.

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That's how we send emails out to them.

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That's how we send everything out.

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That's how we communicate with it.

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So that's really, really big.

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We use Synergy.

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We use Just Play for a lot of like film
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Synergy is Just Play's a lot of like...

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Scattering reports and that and and all
those things are continuously updating we

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are as well, you know with it So it's
really really important It's funny that

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you asked that question because I was just
talking to my assistant to our babies

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right compared to me Two days ago,
probably we were talking about film

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exchange and I I was like well, you know
Use when I first got in coaching We used

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to have to mail out or email out film
exchange and then sometimes we'd have to

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meet people to get the VHS tape

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to exchange in order to watch film.

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And they all looked at me like, oh my
gosh, that's nuts.

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And so where we now have things that fix
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us, now we have other challenges that we
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So it's crazy to think about that, but
technology definitely is an every day and

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every year changing thing.

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And we're trying to put our kids in the
best situation with how they learn.

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to be successful in those areas and a lot
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I remember just as a side story, I was
watching one of the Milwaukee Bucks

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players shooting and he had a machine that
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And baseball has similar kind of things.

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I can see how you could calibrate that
muscle memory based on the data on arch,

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spin and all that kind of stuff.

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Different distance, all those kind of
things.

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You know, a lot of people probably don't
know, but our kids were like, we have like

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five or six heart rate monitor type things
that our kids wear during practice and

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during games, um, that track like, like if
you, if you, if I asked you, how many

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miles do you think Ellie Brueggemann runs
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What would you say?

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No, about six in a game.

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So like we can track on an everyday basis
and it's different for kid to kid, how

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fast they recover, like how many miles
they're going or the load that they have

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on them.

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And then we can make some adjustments to
that with practice.

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And, you know, Julius, our strength and
conditioning coach, he monitors all that

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on a day-to-day basis.

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He tracks it all.

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And then...

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You know, we really look at that and talk
about that per kid and within our team,

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what that looks like, you know.

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Oh, we looked really tired this week.

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What was our load management?

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You know, how can we make some adjustments
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It's crazy, but it's something that, you
know, is important.

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You know, we're trying, you talk about
kids these days and how much they do,

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right?

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Keeping them injury free is really, really
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factor in that with what we try to do to
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Interesting.

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And again, we've talked about the season
winding down, and you've been with these

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young women and your staff for many months
now, day in and day out.

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Share, coach, one or two really neat
things from your perspective that have

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happened in this first season for you at
D1 and at Lindawood.

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Yeah, well, I don't even know, you know,
where to start with all that because I

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think there's been so many out neat or
special opportunities or special things

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that have happened this year.

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You know, I want one of the things that
I'm going to tell the kids, you know, when

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when it's all said and done is, you know,
I think a lot of people will look back

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from the outside and judge this team on.

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on how many wins, that's just how society
is, right?

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How many wins you've accomplished and what
that looks like, whether it's

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non-conference or conference with it.

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But the people inside our program and them
and us, man, I don't know if I've had a

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team that's made more progress, and they
should have, they should, right, they're

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young, but that's made more progress,
that's been more coachable, that's been

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more vulnerable.

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to losing and still wanting to be better.

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You know, they've just done some really, I
think, amazing things this year that go

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unnoticed and untalked about in a lot of
areas.

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And so I think that's probably one of the
neatest things is that, you know, a lot of

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people think that it's been maybe a bad
year, and I just think it's been such a

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great year and such a successful year for
our program.

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And not saying we don't want more and not
saying that we don't want to win more, but

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Man, it's been it's been a really good
year.

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You know, I asked Tay This was a while
back.

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This was actually like before we played UT
Martin and we had just lost the game

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before that Before we played UT Martin I
said Tay have you have you enjoyed

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coaching a whole group of women as much as
you've enjoyed coaching this group and and

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You know, she said, no, I said, me
neither.

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Like, I just really like these kids, you
know, and not that we didn't enjoy the

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other groups, but you just don't find a
group a lot of times when you're going

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through a lot of hard that is fun to coach
as much as this group has been.

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So I think that's pretty neat too.

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Yeah.

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And for what it's worth, as I drove home
after the game on Saturday, I was a little

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sad because I have to wait what, eight
months?

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Amy, unless you can get another game
sometime soon, I'm going to have to wait

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eight months to see these young women play
live again.

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I'm a little upset at that, but I'll.

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And then, of course, you know, changing
big topics here, court storming big deal

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last weekend, a couple of weekends ago.

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It could happen at Lindenwood someday.

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What are you talking about?

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Yeah.

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on.

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What are your thoughts on balancing the
joy of the moment with the safety of

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opposing players and officials?

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It's crazy because the radio station just
asked me that today with it, how I felt

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about it.

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I think, first of all, we have a great
student section here.

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We have a lot of kids that come to games.

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I think that's awesome.

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We talk about being the sixth man and that
kind of stuff.

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I definitely think we have that here.

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We're really thankful for that.

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It's going to happen here.

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You know, we're building right now, but
there's going to be a time where there's

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going to be some really big wins and some
really big things happen within our

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program.

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And so it may happen here if there's not a
rule to it.

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But I do think there does need to be
something, you know, you rewatched whether

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it happened to Caitlin Clark or the Duke
player, you know, this past week with

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stuff.

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I think there has to be something set in
place to protect the opposing team.

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I definitely think that like you.

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The last thing you need to worry about or
want to worry about as a coach is one of

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your players getting hurt in a post-game
set celebration.

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Do I want those celebrations to happen
because I think they're awesome?

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Yes, 100%.

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But I think there has to be something set
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I don't know what that is or what that's
going to look like, but it's going to have

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to come to that with it.

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So that's really kind of how I feel about
it and what I think, you know.

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I don't know the solution for sure to it,
but I definitely think there needs to be

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something.

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If I ever get the chance to storm the
court, storm will be a strong word because

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I will walk slowly.

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Coach, last question.

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I'm gonna focus on the University of
Southern Indiana.

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And your team could have had them down
late in the game on New Year's Eve, if not

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for what I'm going to lovingly call an
overzealous whistle.

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They came into D1 with Lyndenwood.

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They're doing okay.

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What do you like about what they're doing
at Southern Indiana?

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Well, I think every institution is
different.

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Every team is different.

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I think I have a lot of respect for Rick
Stein and his staff there.

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I mean, I think I played.

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We coached against each other for years.

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So I've known them for years.

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And they're just great people, first and
foremost, and are doing it the right way

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and doing it their way.

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They play a different style than probably
every other team in our league when you

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talk about.

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post play and like some high-low stuff
which you don't see very often anymore

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because so it's so hard to find post
players so a ton of respect for what

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they're doing.

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I think you know the university when you
talk about even the second year for them

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you know they knew they were looking to do
this and you know their facilities amazing

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all those things are just they have set in
place to really I think aid them in

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recruiting which is really big.

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to aid them in those areas and to help
them be successful.

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And I think if you ask them in the
conversations even I've had with them, it

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has really, really helped.

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The university is committed to it and
they're doing things the right way.

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So, you know, I would say the same thing
about us here, you know, with it.

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You know, our university and our
commitment is there.

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You look at, we've talked about the
practice facility already with that.

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We know we have other things that need to
be done with our locker room and so forth,

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but the commitment's there.

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And they're seeing a lot of those
benefits, I think, early in the second

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year.

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And I'm hoping we see the same thing next
year with stuff.

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But they're definitely seeing some of
those benefits early.

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Well coach, always a pleasure.

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I'll find a way to steal a couple wins
this weekend and sneak into that OVC

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playoff.

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Maybe I'd be willing to drive to
Evansville.

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You find a way to get into the OVC
tournament.

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I'll find a way to get to Evansville.

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How's that sound?

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I wouldn't complain about that.

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Two games left in a regular season and
just like we approached last week on

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Thursday and Friday, I mean, we just want
to be the best that we can be in each game

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and go out and try to find ways to win.

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And we're definitely going to do that for
these two games as well.

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We'll get together again next week and
talk about the season as we wrap it up.

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And we'll look forward to speaking with
you then.

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Hey, can I say one more thing real fast?

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Okay, for everyone that listens, and I
know we're gonna continue to do this and

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that, but I said it on the radio the other
day, and ending our home game at

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Lindenwood, I'd like to thank, obviously,
the people that come to our games, or the

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attendance that's been at our games,
whether it's the kids, or faculty, or

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community, or parents.

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You know, I think we have started to
create a very special atmosphere here with

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that.

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And I think that's really important for
not only our student athletes here, but

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for recruiting.

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So definitely wanted to thank everybody
for their commitment when things maybe

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haven't shown up in the win column the way
we want for their continuous commitment to

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our program.

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And I look forward to, you know, us
continuing those relationships, to

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building on those relationships, and for
next year for our home games.

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to restart and take that next step in our
program.

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So just wanna thank everybody.

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I know it's not the end of the year, but
it is the end of our home games for

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everyone that came out and supported us
and has poured some of their heart and

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watching some painful basketball as well
sometimes into who we are and better

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things to come for sure.

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Very good.

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Well, hey, we've come to the end of this
podcast episode with Lyndon Wood

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University Head Women's Basketball Coach,
Amy Egan.

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I encourage all of you listening to the
podcast to share it with friends and

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family and neighbors and your favorite
women's college basketball player to be.

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If you have questions or comments for
Coach Egan, send them to me, gsoccer,

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that's G-S-T-O-C-K-E-R at Lyndonwood.edu.

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Coach, best of luck, we'll talk soon.

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Thank you.