 Hello and welcome to the Jackie Boswell show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson, head women's basketball coach Jackie Boswell. Coach we're about months or so into the season. Just talking a little bit about how things have gone for you so far. Well I mean I think right now we're just in our learning stages and just trying to follow our process. Had a couple tough losses lately but I think that our schedule is always designed to challenge us and I think it's certainly done that. I do think we're learning from it and I think it's gonna benefit us in the long run if we keep at it. Yeah sort of like you said you've played a really tough schedule both non-conference and the first two conference games of Sargon's Messiah like homing to the teams projected to be up towards the top of the conference. Talking again about you know developing that consistency from game to game and even in the game to try to play a complete 40 minutes. You know I think we just keep working at it's got to be a lot of repetition we got to go back to a lot of basics I feel like in practice and we've done that and that team has responded really well. You know so we're just looking forward to seeing what this young team can do. I hope we can turn it around quick enough for our two seniors Hannah and Savannah. Yeah but you know our conference is gonna be tough this year we knew it. Not many people lost a lot of seniors and so you got to come and play every game. Yeah I talked about particularly the first conference home game this past Saturday against like homing now you're down believe 14 and third quarter able to come back make a few shots and it's got to be exciting coach to see that you have a team that wasn't didn't want to give up and was able to fight back and claw back in that game against a pretty good opponent. I think that's the biggest takeaway we have to we have to walk away from with that game is to be down so much and to show the kind of heart that we did and to be able to execute it wasn't just you know hard work it was the execution we can from the ball in the basket what we need to and hopefully that gives us some confidence and you know and and go into the next conference game with that. Yeah and also the defensive side as well I think you know like homing is one for 12 in the fourth quarter from the floor something like that so to be able to do that both sides of the ball offensively and defensively to kind of you're not just depending on all we got hit five shots in a row to get back in it you can also rely on your defense as well. Right I was watching the film and I thought our defense actually overall was really good you know again it's taking care of the basketball I think our Achilles heel right now has been even in the big losses to Christopher Newport Marymount has been not being able to take care of basketball you know we're giving up a lot of points that way it's not really our defense that are giving up the points so I think we just got to focus on that and keep watching ourselves and keep learning from it. Yeah now going in you guys are finals this week and go in one final conference game before the break here you play Arcadia home this Saturday again another tough conference opponent that should be right in the mix at the end of the season. Yeah they're gonna be really good again they return pretty much everybody from last year look really good on film so you know we're just gonna take these next two days and and again just follow this process and just try to keep at it and and see what happens. Alright coach we thank you for your time best of luck this weekend and move forward and we'll chat again soon. Great thank you. Alright for Jackie Boswell I'm Greg Royce this has been the Jackie Boswell Show.