 Hello and welcome to the Jackie Boswell show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson women's basketball head coach Jackie Boswell Coach who an action once last week you had the midweek buy from the conference schedule and You hosted alvernia and what would end up being a pretty big big win a number of ways So just kind of take us through that game. Well, I thought our game plan was executed really well Couldn't be more happy right now with how we're playing defense. I think from the start of the year even to the messiah game You know our defense is looking better and better and that has to be the key And we just got to keep working in that direction to be where we want to be in the second round coming up with With you know, it's second round playing everybody. Yeah. Yeah, you talk about that defense And you know once again on Saturday, I was able to create some offense for you You know look at the conference standings, you know, you're second in the league I think in steals first and cost turnovers per game But obviously if you don't get lots of points off of that it's it's kind of for not You know, but so how encouraging is to see over these last couple games where you've turned that defense into some offense? Well, it's very encouraging because I thought that that you know when you go back and you watch us play messiah You know, I thought we did have some missed opportunities there I thought we did a good job on the defense then but like you said, we do have to convert So the fact that we are getting better and better and our execution in that area is doing well And you know leading some of those statistics was one of our team goals So, you know, we're just trying to take each day at a time and each step at a time and accomplish those goals One day at a time. Yeah, finally, um, you know with a score that game You were able to get some different players in some players the first time this year Um, and you know, they came in and did pretty well as well So how nice was to see those players don't get a lot of time come in and contribute? Well, it was really encouraging I mean this this freshman class is really talented all of them Even though some of them haven't really probably gotten the minutes that I know that they would like and they Worked just as hard as everybody else So it was really encouraging to see that, you know, our leader's only team got that big lead was able to allow us to make some substitutions and then how happy were that was that bench on that day too So I'm really proud of that bench, you know, our players that play a lot sitting down watching them cheering them on and just It was just an exciting day. Yeah And finally coach for you know, personal know obviously career win number 100 here, Stevenson Just like a little bit of what that means you're looking back on you know Your first seven years here and all the players that you've had to help make that happen Well, I mean it was really special It was a little bit of a surprise because you know as a coach you're not really that's that's not what you're doing And but it was really humbling to me to see how how much my team put into that day And to see all the alumni come back and just the response that we've gotten it's just been great and You know like I told our team too that no one is ever successful by themselves. So this is definitely not a You know a one-person thing. I mean coach Adams, you know to even give me the job here and everything Just to have that much faith in me. So I just appreciate everybody Here that's always believed in what we're doing and you know to my assistant coaching staff It's been with me the entire time. I mean, this is really everybody's 100. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely Obviously no coach. Nobody in life gets anywhere without without some help, right? So looking ahead to this week Obviously you go to hood on Wednesday and then host Arcadia on Saturday, you know start a second go around You know after hood's the end of the first half Arcadia start a second half Just looking to keep up the momentum in these two games and not maybe have a letdown against some teams that You know on paper kind towards the middle to the bottom of standings Well, you know, that's why you play the game and nothing in on paper is ever right You know hood's one of those teams that I feel like every year Toward this time of the season they upset one of the top teams So we just got to make sure that that's not us tomorrow And and then after we take care of business tomorrow then really focusing on the second go around with everybody Absolutely. All right coach. We wish you the best of luck this week and we'll talk to you next week. Great. Thank you For Jackie Boswell, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Jackie Boswell show