 Hello and welcome into the Gary Stewart Show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with Gary Stewart, head coach of the men's basketball team. And coach, it's been a while since we got to talk. It's been four games that you've played, two of them over the holiday break. Just talk about those games, all of them separated by two possessions. Well, first of all, Joe, happy new to you and everybody watching. We've played better. And so that's really, really encouraging. As you mentioned, we've had four two possession games, had the ball with an opportunity to go ahead or tie, or had the lead with less than 90 seconds left in all those games. And what you want to do is you want to keep putting yourself in those positions. Eventually, we'll close those out. I'm really happy with our progression. The program is in good shape. Joe, we've had our best academic semester since I've been here. We graduated three young men in December. So the last thing I think is to play a little bit better the last 90 seconds. And I think that better days are ahead for us. Well, certainly congratulations to those three men that did graduate. Now, what does it do in terms of momentum headed into the rest of the conference schedule, having those tight games, and maybe converting them into victories down the line? Well, the good thing is that you're able to go back and you can look at the tape and you can identify things that we can do better. And we can do those things better instantaneously, better decisions with the basketball. Our rotations can be better. We had a possession the other day where we had three guys go for the basketball on a defensive rebound. They knocked it out of each other's hands. Ball goes out of bounds in a tight game like that. Now you're giving a team another opportunity to score. And they did capitalize on that. So those type of things, you get that rebound. That's three points that they didn't score. So we're fully aware of areas that we can improve in. And I fully expect us to do that. And the shot clock resets on that rebound. They get an extra 30 seconds to maybe kill the clock if they wanted to. So that's a tough lesson to learn, but it's a good one to learn going into conference schedule. It is. It is. And yet that particular game is a 41-24 differential on the backboard. So we did some really good things there. We just needed to get one more. Any certain players that you're keying in on have a big second half of the semester or a second half of the season? Well, it's a long season. So you want to see how your young people handle that. Moving forward, obviously we're back in the conference play. And you want to continue to see the progression. We asked our guys to be obsessed with improvement. So that's very, very important. We see that in practice. We start to see the consistency in terms of the concentration, the effort, the attention to detail. So you want to continue that. All in all, I just think that we're on the right track. I think we just need to continue this journey. Well, Coach, we appreciate your time and wish you the best of luck in continuing that improvement. I've definitely seen it in the minutes that I get to see you guys out practicing. It's a real pleasure for me. Thank you, Jill. And happy New Year to you as well. Thank you. He's Gary Steward. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Gary Steward Show.