 Hello and welcome to this year's inaugural edition of the Jackie Boswell show presented by Buffalo Wildlings I'm Greg Roy showing here with Stevenson woman's basketball head coach Jackie Boswell and coach You've had you've played about 20% of your season are you played five games at about a 10 or 11-day span? Three and two so far. Can I take us through the first part of the season how it's been for you so far? You know, I think it's been great. I mean it has been a little crazy It's hard to think about it the way you said it 20% but You know, I think it's been a really good learning experience for us And you know part of the reason that we do design these first couple weekends is you know with back-to-back games Like we told our team the other day we want us to be ready by the end of March You know we want us to everything that we do is trying to prepare for the end of the season and get us ready and see What we need to do and what changes we need to make at this point in the year And I think these first five games out of conference have been able to do that for us Yeah, and you know you're home in action three times last week and you take the first game then the last two and Completely different, you know Salisbury probably, you know Now you're strongest performance and then the two performance early against Stevens and Virginia Wesley and certainly looked a lot better So obviously like we've talked about in the past with a lot of freshmen those swings are going to be there definitely I thought that you know Salisbury was just a tough outing for us But I you know give a lot of credit to our team for regrouping taken a couple days off and coming back on Friday We watched some film We worked really hard on some of the things that we needed to make sure that we could accomplish and the most important thing to Me on Saturday and Sunday was can we execute the things the changes that we made in practice and not only we execute them I thought we you know really displayed how athletic we can be and how good our defense really can be Yeah, it seemed like a lot of defense was turning into a lot of offense You know a lot of transition a lot easy baskets on the other end And one of the things I noticed you on Sunday was just the balance you had you know five players and double figures I think no one over 15 Against some contribution not just from the freshman with some of the returners as well Right I mean you know one of the things that I thought that I noticed in those first couple games was that we were more focused on the Offense event and how many points we didn't score and what I wanted to try to change their mentality after Salisbury's I wasn't worried about the 40 something that we had against Salisbury. I was more worried about the 60 something that we gave up So I wanted to try to change the mentality to not worry But the scoring will all come if we can just play defense and and again I think they took that to heart a little bit because we were able to get a lot of people in scoring Both Saturday and Sunday's game. So it's gonna be hard to predict who's gonna be the leading scorer It's gonna be hard to predict Who you have to guard and and right now we're saying you got to guard everybody and I think that that's a really positive thing and and I think that they have now Realized that the defense can make some make for some easy buckets. Absolutely. Obviously transition, you know wide open lamps So the easiest easiest baskets to get And shifting gears now you played obviously on non-conference games this point You had in the conference play this week starting tomorrow night jump right in at Albright Team that's you know, usually right near the top of the standings and you've had some battles with over the last couple years Yeah, it's been a great rivalry and you know, just looking forward to getting conference play started I do think that the first five games that we set out of conference definitely has prepared us this point we've learned a lot about ourselves over the last couple weeks and now Great test tomorrow going into conference play with one of the top teams and then Saturday You'll have your home conference opener. You play wide in there here on Saturday afternoon I'm obviously excited to get that first of two conference games before the semester break at home. Yeah, definitely I mean, you know widener is gonna be good as well and I mean our whole conference You know, you just got to be ready to play in this conference. It's strong. It's great Again a lot of good rivalries a lot of good competition. So Guess we'll find out where you are a week from now Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure this week will tell us a lot about where you are at this point this season Well, thanks a lot coach. We'll see you on Saturday afternoon For Jackie Boswell, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Jackie Boswell show