 Stevenson beats Notre Dame 68-62 in the home opener Glen Clark with head coach Jackie Boswell coach I know you didn't want to see a big lead evaporate in the second half, but now that it's over. Do you feel like your team? Benefits from having to go through that a little bit and fight at the end of the game to make sure they came away with a win I do I mean obviously you never want to see it go away But I thought it tested us and you know to be tested like this on on game three I think is really good because we can go back and really learn a lot from this and Just really proud of how they kept together and stayed together and and some people stepped up We got some key rebounds at the end and that's what it takes We knew we had to get it done on the defensive end and thought we did a good job when it came down into the stretch Your freshman really stood out for me tonight Amanda Amani Aliyah like this is a group that was playing key minutes and had to come away with big plays and big spots How quickly have they gotten to this point and how have they gotten to this point so quickly? Yeah, I mean they're coming in working hard every day at practice You know, I think that everybody that has returned really wants to see some things move forward And they've pushed each other and they've pushed these younger kids to you know want to be good when we recruited them We saw something in them that we know that they we think they can be really special moving forward They kind of showed flashes of that tonight And and I just thought it was a really good great team effort You tell me about you know when when the lead was kind of evaporating a little bit You didn't seem to panic you didn't start calling bunch of timeouts and you seem to let the players work through that Can you tell me about why you had the faith in your team that they could handle that? Well, you know, we've seen a lot of growth in Erin Dixon just from in a year And I had a lot of trust in her that she was going to slow the offense down She was going to slow everything down take care of the basketball for us You know, Adam, Jayden Harris and that kind of experience as well So you just got it sometimes you have to put it in there. You only got five anyway I was gonna run out of timeouts before I could run out of salute but run in a solution So you had to trust him at some point. So that was no time then was better than that They got it done. They got it done Alright, so you guys are basically living on the road here to start the season I don't know who put together this schedule, but we're not gonna see you before Thanksgiving Give me your favorite thing coach on the on the menu. Every Thanksgiving. What is it? This is gonna be for Brandy. This is sweet potato casserole Brandy That's a winner coach. Congratulations on a big win. We will see you back here in like a month Thank you. It's Jackie Boswell. I'm Glenn Clark. Go Mustang sports TV