 Hello and welcome to the Gary Stewart show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson Men's basketball head coach Gary Stewart. Coach, you played twice last week. Let's talk about the first game first. You hosted the Lebanon Valley here on Wednesday night and had a couple of nice comebacks around 16 in the first half and down 11 in the second half. But ultimately we were able to come back and win. Just kind of take us a little bit through that game and how it went for you guys. Lebanon Valley is a tough outfit. They've got two of the better players, not only in our conference or region but in the country and Sam Light, their really really good perimeter player, got off to a fast start and they were in really good rhythm offensively and put us back on our heels a little bit. In the second half we were able to do some different things on him and again I thought that our guys put forth great effort but they also made a concerted effort to get the ball into Andy Orr on the interior. So now that presented a different challenge for us and fortunately for us we were one possession better. Yeah, there was a point in the first half there where Sam Light, it just seems like every time he touched the ball it was going in. But I will say a couple of guys I thought Corey Heyman stepped up, made some shots at our Marcus Steadling the first half to kind of keep you guys in the game. Yeah, as I stated we couldn't get a tourniquet on Gurley so we went to our bench and Corey who provides us energy was able to get a couple of baskets and that kind of got us going again. And his attitude is infectious and permeated our team and we were able to work ourselves back into a workable margin at halftime and then in the second half we were able to continue that. Yeah, the game was actually tied at halftime and then in the second half they came out and they scored the first 9 or 11 points but you were able to claw back from that. And in the second half guys that kind of stepped up all year, Dan Zellwright and Jaylen Johnson, Jaylen hit that big shot 30 seconds to go and put you guys on top for the first time since 2-0. Yeah, it was a big shot, late in the shot clock and he got a good look and knocked it down. And then that happened with 28 seconds left and then we were able to get a stop and Dan Zell made some clutch free throws down the stretch. We did a good job of getting him the ball and he's a 90-plus percent free throw shooter. So we were down with 30 seconds left in the game and then quickly within 10 seconds we were up two possessions. Yeah, and overall just a good win, like you said, battle back a couple of times. And then Saturday you guys go up to Arcadia and you were kind of in the game the whole time but at the same time couldn't really make that run late to kind of put you guys over the top. Well, unfortunately for us we got down again, double figures and our guys worked their way back again into the game and got a second half lead. But this is something that has plagued us a little bit here and we've got to address that because the teams at our conference are too good to get behind double figures and try to win, especially when you're on the road. Yeah. What do you do to address that as a staff to kind of look at, see what you're doing and kind of stress the importance of, hey, we can't come from behind every single game but just try to get up on somebody and try to maintain a lead rather than try to claw from behind time after time. Well, you have to look deeper and find out why you're getting in those situations and clearly there's some things that we are not doing that's required of us and that's putting us back on our heels and then again give our opponents credit. If you don't do certain things in this conference the teams are going to capitalize on it and they are and we've got to address those. We have to have a sense of urgency to get those corrected because it's the difference between winning and losing for us. Yeah, absolutely. You've got a few days to work on, you know, break for finals. Obviously you guys are going to be preoccupied with academics first but obviously you'll still be practicing and working on some things that gives you a chance to work on some different things having a couple of non-conference games next week. Yeah, we get out of conference for four games and starting next week, which is a very important period for us. We've got to keep bringing our bench along. We've got a lot of young guys there that we think very highly of and we've got to get them acclimated to extended play and then we've got to address the areas that we talked about here that I mentioned. We've got to get better. So this is an important time for our basketball team. Alright, well thanks a lot coach. Thanks for your time as always and we'll talk to you next week. Thank you, Greg. Alright, for Gary Stewart, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Gary Stewart Show.