 Welcome to the Gary Stewart show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with Gary Stewart head coach of the men's basketball team and coach You guys take a long trip up the SUNY new paltz last Tuesday and get a solid performance out of a number of players up there Long trip up but a quick trip back. It was a good experience for us We played really really well in the first half as well as we have all year defensively and got some separation and and then we're able to Continue our offensive on slot to put up 93 points 44 in the second half and All in all I thought we checked a lot of boxes and one of those boxes that you checked is defending the three-point arc on a Good three-point shooting team. Yeah, they're really really dangerous from three and They beat a Springfield team Earlier in the season and Springfield then goes and beats then the number one team in the country So they're certainly capable from three and we were we were able to Get them under control and that was a huge part of the game You guys check off another box of playing well outside of conference And then you guys come back play well inside of conference again another good three-pointing shooting team in Alvernia able to get that job done as well Yeah, very difficult very difficult to guard. We couldn't match up with them in the first half We tried to roll over our coverage on their on-ball stuff and and nothing seemed to work we did Close the half out well For the last two minutes they didn't score and we went in with a deficit of eight They hit a three coming out of half-time to increase the lead to 11 In a place that they haven't lost all year and our kids really fought hard and and we were able to to get some separation changed their defense and and And beat them up there and one of those we talked about a little bit earlier is Strong performances out of some individuals in that Alvernia game. Cliff Cornish comes down with 15 boards And that can't be a bad thing when you guys are trying to control ball. Yeah, Cliff has been Working his way back to what we know he's capable of and and you see the basketball getting better and better And we've told all of our guys, you know, don't worry about the blind horse Just load up the carriage and and so we learned a lot about ourselves in October November December and And now trying to apply those lessons and our guys have it fought hard and Improved and it's been a pretty long road trip for you guys last week. You turn around this week You've got a home game on Wednesday. Talk a little bit about that game. They're very very difficult opponent in hood college they Very very well coach. They'll play as hard as anybody has all year. They're very very aggressive With the ball trying to put the ball in the paint. They certainly Warrant your attention on the three-point line as well So they're tough coverage and then they offensive rebound so well They're gonna press you for 40 minutes and very very active in their zone So they present a lot of challenges and I'm excited to play them Well, coach, we're excited as well and we wish you the best of luck in these games that you got coming up this week Thank you, Joe. He's Gary Stewart. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Gary Stewart show