 Hello and welcome into the Jackie Boswell show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Jackie Boswell, head coach of the women's basketball team. And coach, you guys traveled to Messiah first last week, have a tough game, play real tight, lose that one, one nothing but the resiliency to come back, play at home, and get the win against Lycoming. Yeah, I couldn't have been more proud of our effort. I thought we executed our game plan really well and to have to go on the road at their place. They draw such a nice crowd and great community support. I thought we had some players really step up. Johnny Curry, that was her first game back from being injured. And she played with a lot of heart. It was probably the most heart I've seen our team play with all year. And coming up short, you're pleased with the effort, but we're not pleased with the outcome. So we still have some work to do, and we're determined, I think, to do it at this point. And that determination proved itself in the competition with Lycoming. You guys were back and forth for a while, and then finally we were able to pull away and get the win. Yeah, I mean, Lycoming's a great team as well. I mean, our entire conference is. And when you can bounce back, since it's such a physical mental game that we had on Thursday, it was just such a quick turnaround. Really proud of that effort as well. Just we just got to keep working to get better every day. And we do tend to shoot the ball a little bit better on our own floor. And I thought we got in the gym a little bit more outside of practice. And that definitely proves to help your shooting percentage. So we've been trying to tell them that and it proved very well for Sarah Downing, especially coming off the bench. That's one point that I was going to make, but Sarah Downing, putting in that extra effort, shoot arounds and getting that extra work in, definitely proved to help her. And she scored 16 points on Saturday, something that a career high for her. Yeah, I mean, there's so many different roles on a basketball team, I think. And you never know when that opportunity is going to come, but you have to be ready for it. And I think she is the pure definition of being ready for an opportunity that was put in front of her. I thought Lycoming did a great job of double-teaming Sarah, not letting her get very many touches. And so someone else needed to be able to shoot the ball or we don't end up on the wind column in that. So that was a great job on her part. They had to change their game plan midway through the second quarter to now come out and have to guard her. Which would open up the door for Sarah to be able to get the ball and get more points if that worked out that way. Now you guys have another quick turnaround. You guys are going to play this evening after playing on Saturday with a good opponent in Stockton. Yes, they're very good, but I think that just kind of goes with our out-of-conference schedule for this whole year. I don't think we've played anybody easy out-of-conference. So yeah, we're just going to host them tonight and welcome them in here. And just an opportunity to play some of my different, never played them in the time that I've been here. So a great opportunity to play a team that's getting some votes for the top 25. And across our conference as well are teams getting votes, and the teams that you've been playing, like you mentioned, out-of-conference are receiving votes or are ranked. Correct. What does that do in your mindset as you get ready for the rest of the conference schedule? Well, you hope that the mindset that it makes us tougher and makes us want to work harder and want to continue to get better. I mean, I think that you want to play the best teams. If you want to be the best, you have to play the best. And that's kind of always been our philosophy since we got here. And we don't worry so much about the win-loss column in those. We just want to make sure that we're getting better. And the mental part of it, to not get down when we're falling short, can we just get back into gym and learn from that? And so far, I think we've been able to do that. And hopefully, again, we'll find out in March if that plays out for us. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck this evening and with the rest of the conference schedule that you'll resume on Saturday. Great, thank you. She's Jackie Boswell. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Jackie Boswell Show.