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#UNC coach Courtney Banghart after the Tar Heels' upset of No. 12 #Duke
Mar 1, 2026
#UNC coach Courtney Banghart after the Tar Heels' upset of No. 12 #Duke
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Not only was it a sellout, but it was an
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engaged sellout. Um, I just, you know,
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we always say these are two basketball
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schools that are are really doing what
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they got to do. So, it's a great a great
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battle. Two really good teams. You know,
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we always say that the the most
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dangerous teams are the ones that keep
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getting better. Um, we're a whole lot
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better than we were in December. I don't
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know, we've won what 12 of 13. I'm not
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great at all that, but um, I'll tell
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you, they this is a we've become a
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really good basketball team. Um, hats
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off to Duke. They're hard to guard, man.
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They're hard to guard. You got a lot of
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good players. It's a really physical
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game. Um, but you know, a Duke Carolina
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rivalry, what else, you know, you guys
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got to come for that and see what it's
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about. So, happy to answer any
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questions.
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>> Did it somehow fit in after the one you
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did get to the line the first game, did
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you put the game away with 70 free
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throws in the
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>> quarter? Yeah, it was kind of
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fascinating the last game out obviously.
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Um but I thought the physicality that we
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were willing to play with and through um
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you know there's a lot of you know on
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and off ball um having to play through
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that and so they had to foul late which
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kind of skews the numbers a little bit
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but you know for a team that lost two
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games because they couldn't make free
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throws were they say we can shoot free
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throws and we're proving you guys we're
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proving ourselves right.
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>> Career high well then careerhigh 20
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points for the last outing then another
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career high 22 today. just what's been
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um the difference or what do you think
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has maybe allowed her to be just so
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effective these last two games
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>> and seven rebounds. You know, I think
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for E, you know, her being aggressive is
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critical. You know, she's a nice kid,
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really nice kid, uh from Finland. And
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we've really tried to impart how
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aggressive she needs to be to help our
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team win. And um you know, she's let us
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coach her. She's let us really push her
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uh to be more aggressive, to get on the
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glass, to um you know, to have more
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defensive presence. Um and she makes us
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a better team. So, uh, her maturation is
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is partly why we're getting better.
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>> There were two moments when you were
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down the, um, 103 at that first
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immediate timeout, struggling, and then
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>> again when they took the lead with about
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five minutes left in the game.
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>> Yeah.
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>> What did you Those felt like gut check
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moments to me side.
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>> Yeah, good point.
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>> Were they and what did you say? What was
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the message in the huddles?
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>> Yeah, I think that's a good point. I
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think especially when we were down 10
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three, I thought they had to make some
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really tough shots. I mean, Toby made a
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three. You know, I thought our um
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rallies were contested. I mean, I just
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felt like they I was like, "All right,
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they're giving you the best they got,
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right? This is a 40-minute game." And
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and to your point, that gut check as
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you've gotten more as we've gotten more
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mature and we've gone through more stuff
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together, we're showing more resilience.
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You know, we had our senior night last
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night and and India spoke about her
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experience and she talked about um how
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resilient and connected this group is
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and I just kept leaning on that, right?
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And so I said after the first media
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timeout like resilience and and
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connection is what we do and and we're
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what we're going to show. Um and then in
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the fourth quarter a little different.
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It was just kind of a heavyweight fight,
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right? And we said like our our last
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week it was separate. This week it was
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anything for the seniors. You know, we
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kind of theme it up each week and um we
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said like it might be a defensive
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rebound, it might be a putback, it might
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be a a charge, who knows? But it this is
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going to come down to possessions and um
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we said anything for our seniors prove
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it and they did. Can you speak to the
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three-point shooting Virginia today? The
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confidence that the team has now.
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>> Yeah, I mean, I hate to say it. I look
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at it and I'm like 34%. Why do we miss
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so much? You know, uh which I know
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obviously statistically that's pretty
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good. Um you know, these guys are they
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live in the gym. I mean, I don't these I
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don't envy our our facility staff on how
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many times they have to re have fill up
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these nets out here in the practice gym
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and in the game gym. Um and so we say
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that if we if it comes in the right way,
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it's a practice shot, right? And I
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thought we had uh in the first part of
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the game, we rushed some threes um which
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were then become game threes. We want to
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take practice shots. Um and so as we got
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into the gut of the defense a little
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bit, we were able to make practice
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shots.
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>> Courtney, you mentioned the seniors.
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>> Yeah.
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>> How fitting Nyla with 19 big points in
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India with with some really critical
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defensive plays down the stretch.
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>> Yeah, India kind of always kind of
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flirting with that
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>> triple double. Um you know, you just we
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said last night at the banquet, right?
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You always I always talk about how when
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you have heavyweight fights like this,
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it's a rock fight, you got to bring your
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rock. We've kind of changed that to say
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you actually have to bring India and
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Nyla Harris, right? Um and you know,
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when you bring India, Nyla Harris to a
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rock fight, you got a good shot, right?
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And so I, you know, I'm really proud of
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them. I I like you all, I've kind of
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come to expect it. Um but there's a
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resilience and a connection and the team
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has sort of formed into their their
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fearlessness and leadership. Um and so
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how happy I am for them. I mean, it's
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hard to win on senior night. the
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emotions. I felt really good about
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beating Virginia. So, this came a little
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bit less with it. Um, except it was an
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opportunity to beat Duke on senior
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night. Like, that's that kind of speaks
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for itself, right? And so, how happy I
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am for them. You know, if you treat
4:32
people the right way, you treat your
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journey the right way with grace,
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persistence, um, ball typically bounces
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in your way.
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>> The games now are one and done from here
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on out. Does that change anything
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mentality wise or how you coach the team
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or or does that how does that factor? I
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think if you get to this far far in the
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season, you kind of know a lot about
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your team. And what's most important is
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they know a lot about the team, right?
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And I think this group knows a lot about
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who they are. Doesn't make the games
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easier, right? It doesn't make beating
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whoever we have next any easier, but um
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it does make the fact that they know who
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they are. They've been through more
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stuff. Um you know, and so you know, the
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the oneandone mentality, I feel like
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we've kind of when you give up three of
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your first five ACC games, you're
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basically playing one and done the whole
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season. you know, we had to win. Like I
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said, 12 of 13 to even be in this spot.
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Um, and so, no, it doesn't it doesn't
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really change that. It's I'm just glad
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they know who they are because we've
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been through enough stuff.
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>> When you talk about the idea of them
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knowing who they are,
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>> I think you won 12 to 13.
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How long do you think it took them to
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maybe figure that part out, especially
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as you're coming down the stretch on the
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ascent? Mhm. Well, right after the Notre
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Dame game when we really felt like we
5:39
never even got off the plane, which has
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really never happened in my seven years
5:42
here, um we sort of we couldn't just
5:45
regroup. That was like a whoa, what just
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happened? Like why? Um and the captains
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kind of came together and created this
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term it's us, right? And so now instead
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of saying whatever else we've typically
5:55
said, I don't really create all that. Um
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they say it's us and it's just so them
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like it's a season by them for them, you
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know? Um, and so I think when that
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shifted and they got into it's us, I
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think they sort of recognized that we're
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not going to try to be so perfect. This
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is a team that we we'd lose, we would be
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so obsessed on every statistical
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category, like we've got to out rebound,
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we got to take more shots, we got to
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turn it over less, we've got to get more
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steals, we got to get more. It's like,
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no, you don't actually just win as many
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statistical categories as you can and
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we'll see how it all plays out. And so
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we kind of loosened them up. Um, to get
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them to as good as we are, I had to be
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really hard on them. Harder than I've
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been on any team I've been here and any
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team in my previous years. Um, but then
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I probably also shifted. I probably also
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uh not lightened up, but reminded them
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of it is us, right? And we're not going
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to win every Cisco category. That's not
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how we're built, but we're going to win
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enough of them. Um, and that that really
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is kind of how it shifted.
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>> Other than the obviously getting to the
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line more, what were the biggest
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differences between this and the first
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game? And what did you do differently
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strategically from the game in drone?
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>> Not a lot. I thought we played really
6:56
well the first time out, too. It was
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just you literally spot 17 points at the
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free throw line, right? That's a lot,
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right? And so I thought that their their
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physicality um it was it was just it was
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called differently and and I think they
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we our ball screen coverage was
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excellent. We didn't give we made mostly
7:13
outside of we lost her maybe twice. We
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made post finish over our bodies, right?
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These guys are so dangerous in ball
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screens that if you don't make them
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finish um and so I thought our
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physicality and guarding in the post.
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But listen, it's a really good team. I'm
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sure she already probably already went.
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I mean, it's how I felt the last time.
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like I felt like all right let's lace
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them up again right um and I'm sure
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that's how they feel let's lace them up
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again and and we hope that's we have an
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opportunity to do that
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>> talk about some of the stats plus 12 in
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rebounding nyl Harris was huge rebounds
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really physical kind of what was she
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doing down the stretch
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>> I think she started we missed that free
7:50
throw block out um and we sort of at
7:52
that timeout were like we said anything
7:54
that wasn't anything right um and so
7:56
there was a will to get the ball today
7:58
because she had to defend and rebound.
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It wasn't. Sometimes you're the offball
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rebounder. Oftentimes she was not the
8:03
off-ball rebounder. She was the defender
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into the rebounder. Um, you know, but
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when you have the discrepancy of, you
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know, you have seven, eight, three,
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seven, seven, I mean, you keep going
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right down the line. Um, it's us. We've
8:13
got to, we got to rebound together. It's
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not a oneperson job. So, um, Harris with
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34 minutes, you should rebound seven
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times, right? Um, and when you go right
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down the the roster, they should. And
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we're rebounding the ball a whole lot
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better than we were in December. Um
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thankfully
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>> realistically going into the uh ACC
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tournament like all top teams there's
8:31
good shot you can win it all but going
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to the which is different from you know
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being at home here in North Carolina.
8:38
Initial thoughts?
8:38
>> Yeah I don't even know where DUTH is.
8:40
I'll be quite honest. Um I thought it
8:42
was Atlanta. I'm hearing it's not
8:43
Atlanta. I don't I don't really know. I
8:44
hope it's closer uh to drive for our
8:46
fans than than further but again I don't
8:48
know. Um you know I think there's
8:50
there's always I think people wanted it
8:51
to move. I thought I think Greensboro
8:53
has been done a really good job. I know
8:55
it looks like it's a homec court
8:56
advantage for us, NC State and Duke.
8:58
Well, those have been the top three
8:59
teams a lot of the time, even before I
9:01
got here, right? And so, um, but our our
9:03
our teams travel. I at Virginia last
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night or two nights, whatever, however
9:07
many nights ago or at Wake, I mean, we
9:08
our our group travels, so I think we'll
9:09
still have fans. Um, I don't get to make
9:11
those decisions. I guess we'll see after
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it. Was that the right decision?
9:14
>> There was a top 16 reveal right before
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the game. Not on it. Do you think you
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should be on it now?
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>> I mean, we've won 12 of 13, right? And
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so you say and then three of those
9:23
losses were when we have I mean we have
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two upper classmen in a uniform right
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and so if you judge us for what we did
9:29
in early December or even mid December
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you know that's not when the tournament
9:32
is played. I wouldn't have said we were
9:34
that in December, right? But you win 12
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of 13 and the way you're doing it um you
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know it's it it I know to to do that it
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means someone else isn't. But I would
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say put your you know I don't know who
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else has won 12 of 13 and and you could
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say oh the ACC that well you wait and
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see how the ACC does in the postseason.
9:51
They're going to get we're probably
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going to get nine teams in. So if you
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get nine teams in and you're 12 you won
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12 of your last 13 seven of them on the
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road. I mean I don't know what more you
9:59
can do. So, uh, we felt like if we beat
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Duke, we'd be in into that. Um, we felt
10:04
like if we don't beat Duke, you're still
10:05
a three seed, but you might not be in
10:06
the host conversation unless you win the
10:08
whole thing. I feel like you beat Duke
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and you you've done what you needed to
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do.
10:11
>> Can you speak specifically to what India
10:13
did defensively today in this game?
10:15
>> India does what she does every single
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game. I think she takes it for granted
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and I think I do not. As a coach who who
10:20
can always have the other team's best
10:22
player and say India's got it for 40
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minutes if I need it, it is just I will
10:26
miss it more than you know. I mean, she
10:27
guarded Ashlin Jackson like it was no
10:29
one's business. She and then we switch
10:30
her over to other people. Um, her
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ability to be disruptive, active, and
10:34
attentive and concentrate and and do it
10:37
for so many minutes is remarkable. Um,
10:39
and so I just don't worry about the
10:41
other team's best players. If as long as
10:43
um India's in the game, she'll handle
10:44
it. And so she's done it all year. She
10:46
dealt with Kamora Johnson last game. Um,
10:50
the two times we lost her, she wasn't
10:51
honor. Um so I just feel really
10:53
fortunate that India's is I think you
10:56
know at least up there as one of the
10:57
very best defenders in the entire
10:58
country.
10:59
>> Obviously Alina with the 22 points but
11:01
how big were those those buzzer beers at
11:03
the end of the third quarter?
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>> Her being aggressive were huge right
11:06
their momentum plays maybe I think
11:08
probably a little bit like how Duke
11:10
plays is that it's just not one
11:11
possession right so it's really exciting
11:13
for the crowd I get it but for me it
11:15
shows how aggressive Elena is. I think
11:17
in December she's passing that, right?
11:19
She's getting two defenders and she's
11:20
waiting and trying and trying to find a
11:22
pass. Um, and I think now she's she's
11:24
seeing hers while looking for a pass
11:25
also. Um, so those buzzer beaters, it
11:28
means that the the ball's in my hands
11:29
and I know I've got to make a play, not
11:31
just I need to find a pass. So her
11:32
aggressiveness is is was on full display
11:35
today.
11:35
>> Apologies if I missed it, but is Kelly
11:38
are [clears throat] you still hopeful
11:39
about coming back?
11:40
>> Yep. I don't know when ACC tournament,
11:42
NCA tournament, but when you see her out
11:44
there moving around just fine. Yeah, we
11:45
hope so.
11:46
>> Can you talk about how executing your
11:48
runs in the final few minutes and the
11:49
confidence like if you
11:52
>> Yeah, I mean it's it's funny when we
11:54
lose the we lost those few ACC games by
11:56
missing so many free throws and turning
11:58
it over in and kind of endgame. You
12:00
know, there's people who are, you know,
12:01
gosh, Courtney can't coach. And then now
12:03
I'm sure people same people are saying,
12:04
wow, Courtney's a great coach. Like you
12:05
just can't worry about it. It's like
12:06
you're never as good as they think,
12:07
never as bad as they think. You know, I
12:09
still have got to go home and help with
12:10
homework. You know, it's just part of my
12:12
my day. But um I think our kids have
12:13
just been through more stuff. So they
12:15
know that you have to take one more
12:16
step, right? You once the ball you can
12:19
teach them in a in a non-game pressure
12:20
situation, this is our pressure release.
12:22
And until they actually do it and have
12:24
game pressure and mess it up, it's like,
12:26
oh, that's what you meant about a rock
12:28
fight, right? Um and so yeah, I I can't
12:31
stress it enough. We've just been in way
12:32
more of them. We've been we've won our
12:33
last two overtime games. These are
12:35
possession games. We've had a lot of
12:36
possession games. Um and and we're just
12:39
we're better at it. painful to I was as
12:41
hurt as y'all were in December. It's
12:43
painful to go through it. Um but the
12:45
only way to get is go through it and we
12:47
got through it.
12:48
>> First uh AP Rex or first win over an AP
12:52
Rex team this season if I'm not
12:54
mistaken. Just what's the importance of
12:55
that for you guys moving into AC
12:57
tournament and also building a resume
12:58
for potentially hosting?
13:00
>> Yeah, I mean I think when you look at
13:01
that how many teams we we played three
13:03
of the top five teams in the country,
13:04
right? And so when you look at a ranked
13:06
win, it's like, yeah, I'd love to play,
13:08
you know, 12 through or 10 through 25.
13:10
Let's give me 25 of those in a row. Be
13:12
great, right? Um, and so, you know, this
13:14
is a really good team. I think they're
13:16
better than than I think they're
13:18
underranked. I think we're underranked.
13:19
But you just got to play who's in front
13:20
of you, you know, and it was a big win.
13:21
It was the right time. Again, if the
13:23
committee has really stressed the most
13:25
recent play, right, they always have
13:28
because I thought we were good enough a
13:29
couple years ago to host and they were
13:30
like, "Well, it's how you've done most
13:32
recently. It's what kept Virginia Tech
13:33
out of the tournament last year, right?
13:34
Um 12 of 13 is hard to beat. So, I feel
13:37
like this was a a huge win um at the
13:39
right time um against a team that has,
13:41
you know, has has the respect to say,
13:44
"Is that good enough?" Like, what else?
13:46
You know, I think I think I think a lot
13:47
of teams we've played in this league are
13:49
really good.
13:52
>> How is that something coach?
13:55
>> Elena.
13:56
>> Yeah. You mean Elena?
13:57
>> Yes.
13:58
>> Yeah. You know, I'm I'm all over her, I
14:00
guess, is the nicest way to say it. I
14:02
mean, I just she's so gentle and so easy
14:05
and so kind and so and I just am like
14:07
just embedding myself all over her. I
14:09
mean, that girl, I'm all over her. I
14:11
just think she can be really aggressive.
14:12
I think she it's why she came here and I
14:14
told her that like I keep reminding her,
14:16
you came here because you wanted to be
14:17
pushed and I'm just never going to stop,
14:19
right? And so, I'm going to find the
14:21
three times she didn't get a rebound,
14:22
I'm going to say, you could have had 10,
14:23
right? And I'm going to find the the
14:25
times where, you know, and in some of
14:27
those late or early clocks where she
14:30
waited for a screen before attacking, I
14:32
just don't stop. That kid wants to be
14:33
really good and she lets me coach her.
14:37
>> I guess just another one really quick.
14:39
Um, you kind of talked earlier about the
14:42
captains stepping up after that Notre
14:44
Dame loss and, you know, pulling this
14:47
it's us phrase and seems like a lot of
14:48
just kind of play accountability there.
14:50
Obviously 12 to 13
14:53
>> just for them to have stepped up at that
14:55
moment and then have this moment now
14:57
with a win on senior night. Yes.
15:00
>> What are the emotions for you as a
15:01
coach?
15:01
>> Yeah, I'm just so I mean I'm so proud of
15:03
this group. I think it's easy as coaches
15:05
when things aren't going well to say,
15:06
"Oh, go meet about it." That's not what
15:07
we do, right? We're incredibly as as the
15:10
as the players would tell you, I'm
15:11
almost boringly consistent, win or lose.
15:13
Like this is I'm going to I will show up
15:16
tomorrow ready to go to whoever we're
15:18
playing to prepare them, right? And
15:19
there's there's comfort in that, right?
15:21
So, you don't get you can't get too high
15:23
and you can't get too low. You've got to
15:24
continue to get better. And so, we just
15:26
I I tweaked my my um my kind of
15:32
conversations with them just so they
15:33
understood the bigger picture and not
15:34
focused on one thing. But I've still
15:36
remained committed to resilience as a
15:39
part of this, right? And a college
15:40
season takes a lot of resilience. And
15:42
India and Nyla Harris are living that,
15:44
you know, I think they're living how
15:46
important resilience is. um you know,
15:48
having them sit for the pit game so the
15:50
young guys could get the experience they
15:51
needed. They they're seeing the big
15:53
picture here, you know. Um so I'm just
15:56
I'm so proud of them and I tried to tell
15:57
them last night and you know, as a
15:59
coach, you you want so much to have your
16:02
words be the right words at the same
16:03
time. And as I told them, I don't know
16:05
if you can ever be exactly what someone
16:07
needs, but you can always give someone
16:09
your very best. And I've given these two
16:10
seniors my very best, and they've done
16:12
the same in return. So it's easy to root
16:14
for them. Um, and you know, I I I want I
16:18
want them to get everything good that
16:19
can come their way.
16:20
>> You're on ESPN with this game, sold out
16:23
crowd, like you said, really engaged. It
16:24
felt like a sellout.
16:26
>> Lord,
16:27
>> and uh, you know, you get the win over
16:29
your biggest rival, one of the biggest
16:31
ones of the season, and then you got the
16:32
number one recruit coming out.
16:34
>> Isn't that so great?
16:35
>> What is I mean,
16:36
>> it's so great. So, Kate had never seen a
16:38
Carolina game here at Carolina.
16:39
>> Oh, wow. It's a good one. And so, you
16:41
know, we sort of her family sort of
16:42
said, I guess she should see a game
16:43
there before we actually go play there,
16:45
right? Um, and so she's got practice
16:47
tonight because she's still playing for
16:48
the state championship as well. Um, so
16:50
she flew up, flew back. Um, and then to
16:52
have Maria Gakden from Hungary comes, I
16:55
can't miss senior night, coach. These
16:56
guys mean a lot to me. Um, and so, you
16:58
know, she flies in from Hungary, she'll
16:59
go back to Hungary to continue her
17:01
season. Um, and then to have Kate kind
17:02
of right in the air, have Silia Hatchel,
17:03
Ivy Lada, those guys there. I mean, um,
17:06
you know, it's it's remarkable. I know
17:07
Kate got to see like you're joining
17:09
something really. She just said in
17:10
there, you're just she feels like she's
17:12
joining something that at a basketball
17:14
school and a place that loves
17:15
basketball. She feels like she's joining
17:17
not just coaches and teams, but a
17:19
community that really loves basketball
17:21
and she's really excited to to learn in
17:23
that process, but also to give it
17:24
everything she's got.
17:26
>> Just really quick on that note, I
17:27
believe um 14th ACU most since 2012
17:30
2013. Oh wow. Um so just in addition to
17:32
>> Yeah. Um
17:33
>> that's great. We wouldn't have thought
17:35
that in December, would we? [laughter]
17:36
Well, um I think just
17:39
>> I guess if you could speak to um that
17:43
and again with like just having Kate
17:46
here um just in terms of how you feel
17:48
the trajectory of this this program is
17:50
>> it is so hard to win one game. I mean I
17:52
I know every coach says that but I'm
17:54
telling you guys it's hard to win one
17:55
game. Everybody puts resources in,
17:56
everybody practices, everybody recruits.
17:59
Um and we have found a way to win 14 of
18:01
them so far. Um, you know, it's I I
18:05
probably need to reflect on things
18:06
better. I sort of I'm very much process
18:09
and next game oriented. I think I've
18:11
I've tried to get a little bit more
18:13
present. You know, I think I 14's a lot.
18:16
13's a lot. You know, 14's a lot and and
18:19
a double buy in the AC tournament is a
18:20
lot. Um, you know, especially when we
18:22
have two upper classmen in a uniform,
18:24
you know, I think a lot of people said,
18:25
"Oh, it's a rebuild." We trusted our
18:26
recruiting. We trusted our development.
18:28
We brought in two key transfers, but
18:30
otherwise, it's our team. Um, and these
18:31
guys have proven me right. Um, and it's
18:34
it's remarkable. It really is. Um, and
18:37
we've been led by, you know, even Raniah
18:39
being out, she's she leads this team as
18:41
well. We've just been led by the right
18:43
the right leadership as well.
18:45
>> Courtney, no game till Friday night.
18:47
What's the week look like?
18:48
>> God travel.
18:50
>> Yeah. My gosh. Thank God. I I think I
18:52
was really wanting that Virginia win for
18:54
that reason. I was like, if we have to
18:56
play again on Thursday, you know, um
18:58
because we've had, like we said, we've
18:59
had the urgency of having to win every
19:01
game for a month and a half, right? Um
19:04
and so I don't know yet. I'm very I go
19:06
with our sport performance team on what
19:08
we're supposed to do in terms of um what
19:10
what is Tuesday's load and outlook? What
19:12
is Wednesdays? We'll be off tomorrow,
19:13
what is Thursdays? I don't I don't
19:14
really know. I I I'll admit he sort of
19:16
tells me length. He tells me um
19:18
intensity. He tells me um you know,
19:20
based on their numbers so that game days
19:22
they're at their best. Um, but I think
19:24
first is figure out who we're playing.
19:26
Um, and then, um, treat it kind of the
19:29
same. It's just one day later. So, I
19:30
don't know. Our sport performance team
19:32
will make sure we're prepared.
19:33
>> Why Thursday?
19:34
>> Um, when's the game? Friday.
19:37
>> Um, I don't know. I It depends on what
19:39
time they let us shoot in their gym.
19:40
Again, I don't even know where DO is,
19:41
but we have to see if we can shoot in
19:44
their if we can shoot in their gym. Um,
19:47
I don't know what time they give us. I
19:48
think that would I typically you I ask
19:50
the the seniors like, "Do you guys want
19:52
to shoot in their gym?" And if so, we
19:53
have to be there in enough time to do
19:54
that. And I don't know what time that is
19:55
yet. Um and then if if not, then um I'd
19:58
love to leave Thursday, but if if the
20:00
time they give us is Thursday morning,
20:01
we have to go Wednesday night. So, I'm
20:03
not sure.
20:06
>> At this point, we'll play somebody that
20:08
we've played recently, I think. Yeah.
20:10
>> Last thing I heard was either Clemson,
20:12
Virginia, or Virginia Tech.
20:14
>> Well, we played all of them very
20:15
recently.
20:17
>> Well, guys, thanks for being here.
20:18
Great. And the ben for women's
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