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Speaker 1: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet. I'm Lance Pacallister. Let's
Speaker 1: do this, Kelly and I last night enjoyed you see
Speaker 1: women's basketball. We were there. They upset number eleven Iowa
Speaker 1: State seventy three sixty. I had that in front of me.
Speaker 1: They win last night, highs ranked win in program history.
Speaker 1: My next guest played for the Bearcats was a graduate assistant,
Speaker 1: was an assistant now in her third season as head coach.
Speaker 1: What a treat to welcome in the head coach that
Speaker 1: would be Katrina Meriwether coach lancemacallister, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Lance, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Man oh man, the environment last night, over three thousand
Speaker 1: on hand. Congrats on the winning. What a shot of
Speaker 1: confidence it must be for your team.
Speaker 2: It was a good night, and I think that we
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to show was that when we have
Speaker 2: our full roster, they will have a chance to do
Speaker 2: something really special. So we were just happy be out
Speaker 2: there and competing together with everybody who was available.
Speaker 1: Seventy one sixty three. The final score. I knew I
Speaker 1: had that written down somewhere. Man watching Maya Perry last night,
Speaker 1: twenty six points. I think she scored in double figures
Speaker 1: at eighteen sixteen straight games. Now what her performance she
Speaker 1: turned in for your group last night.
Speaker 2: She's amazing. You know. My favorite thing about Maya is
Speaker 2: her mentality. She works incredibly hard. She practices really hard.
Speaker 2: She is an example for our entire team, but especially
Speaker 2: our or sixth person of what it looks like to
Speaker 2: be a pro and to show up every day and
Speaker 2: be committed to your craft. And I could be happier.
Speaker 2: This year wears Brando and black.
Speaker 1: I believe you held the Cyclones twenty six points below
Speaker 1: their season average and going in the story. One of
Speaker 1: the storyline, maybe the biggest storyline in college basketball this
Speaker 1: year has been Audie Crooks, who plays for Iowa State.
Speaker 1: She leads the country in scoring twenty nine a game.
Speaker 1: Your group collectively holds her to twenty three, six point
Speaker 1: below her average. She is such a force. Tell me
Speaker 1: how you went about doing the job you guys did
Speaker 1: on her.
Speaker 2: I love how you said the group, because that's exactly
Speaker 2: what it took. We talked a lot about winning the position.
Speaker 2: And we have four or five players on our team,
Speaker 2: and they all give different looks offensively and defensively, and
Speaker 2: we just kept rolling them out there, one at a time,
Speaker 2: every couple of minutes. Mary Carden, whose minutes had been
Speaker 2: limited practice as Audie Crouks for the last two days,
Speaker 2: and then she turned around and went in there and
Speaker 2: guarded her destiny and alliance. They are very strong, but
Speaker 2: they're short in comparison to Audi. And then Delaney lacks
Speaker 2: a little bit of girth, but she's got long spaghetti
Speaker 2: arms that we think are pretty annoyed. So we just
Speaker 2: ran all for problematter and then just try to keep
Speaker 2: her off balance and then put an emphasis on everyone
Speaker 2: else and then the paint rebound in the ball boy.
Speaker 1: We were really interested to see the three time Miss
Speaker 1: Ohio basketball stand out from Priscell, Mary and d Alexander.
Speaker 1: She missed the first does her show games for you
Speaker 1: guys with an ankle injury. Seven big points last night?
Speaker 1: I remember early in the fourth the arena play for
Speaker 1: she scored what and those were big points she contributed
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, weren't they?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? And I mean everyone knows that these are McDonald's
Speaker 2: All American. And my favorite part about her is she
Speaker 2: very well could just tap out this season and say, hey,
Speaker 2: I know I'm not where I need to be in
Speaker 2: terms of, you know, having this surgery and being out,
Speaker 2: and say I'm just gonna wait, Maria, I'm gonna wait
Speaker 2: till next year. But what she realizes is that she
Speaker 2: can have a positive impact on this season for her team.
Speaker 2: And honestly, she's chosen Cincinnati and basketball and her teammates
Speaker 2: over you know, anything that anyone may say individually about
Speaker 2: her and where she may be in her journey. And
Speaker 2: I'm really really proud of her and grateful that she's
Speaker 2: making that decision for us.
Speaker 1: You know, there were moments last night I had to
Speaker 1: laugh at the legendary basketball coach Al maguire once famously
Speaker 1: said the best thing about freshmen they become sophomores. If
Speaker 1: she had big moments, then there are a couple of moments.
Speaker 1: I look to you and I think you may have
Speaker 1: mouthed what are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you if you come to our game, we'll
Speaker 2: see that a lot. I mean, you just can't help it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that every coach and every team
Speaker 2: has a university right, but join at Crawford, who does
Speaker 2: a great job for us coming off the bench, who
Speaker 2: played in one game then miss seven. It comes back
Speaker 2: in the first game she plays and Kalia de Vilasi
Speaker 2: is out, so she plays thirty five minutes. We Louise
Speaker 2: Kylie Torrance, who is our starter at the fourth spot.
Speaker 2: Like you mentioned, we didn't have d for twelve games.
Speaker 2: I mean, you name it. It has happened. And I
Speaker 2: only have the three people out of thirteen that played
Speaker 2: in every game so far this year. And all that
Speaker 2: matters to us is that we hear the people that
Speaker 2: support us and are positive and know that it may
Speaker 2: not look the way we thought it would or the
Speaker 2: way we wanted it to. But all we can do
Speaker 2: is keep taking steps forward every day.
Speaker 1: Coach, I'm big in to bang for your buck and
Speaker 1: the value of an entertainment dollar. You've got a huge
Speaker 1: one coming up Saturday at home two seventeen of No
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. My wife and I went last night. We
Speaker 1: sat I think ten rows up from the floor, ten
Speaker 1: dollars a piece for tickets, six bucks to perk and
Speaker 1: Corey Garage. Big win, big environment. That was bang for
Speaker 1: our buck.
Speaker 2: Last night, and that makes me feel good. I'm really
Speaker 2: happy you had a good time, and we tell people
Speaker 2: that all the time. Just come check us out. I
Speaker 2: think you're gonna love how hard we play. I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna love how gritty we are. And yes, you're
Speaker 2: gonna see some mistakes. And we're playing four of our
Speaker 2: six freshmen, heavy, heavy minutes, a lot of the situations
Speaker 2: that they're in therein for the first time, and there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a learning curve there. But you're gonna see
Speaker 2: a diving from loose balls. You're gonna see us flying
Speaker 2: through the air for rebounds, and in all of my
Speaker 2: hearing's knocking down shot you'll be able to see some
Speaker 2: good offense too.
Speaker 1: Hey, please, if you think about it, pass along my
Speaker 1: best to what are your assistants? Who was great seeing
Speaker 1: her on the sidelines last night, Abby Owings. She's one
Speaker 1: of my all time favorites, A feisty point guard from
Speaker 1: my part of the woods in Independence, Kentucky and Simon
Speaker 1: Kenton and Thomas Moore. I'm a big fan of her.
Speaker 1: It was great to see her on the sidelines last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a champion and such a great coach, and
Speaker 2: we talked a lot of the time about how you know,
Speaker 2: when we're recruiting, I'm like, find me. We call her Ao,
Speaker 2: you know, find me in Ao, right, somebody who can
Speaker 2: knock down shots, that's quick, fast, athletic, that can handle
Speaker 2: the ball. That's the nation's on defense. And she probably
Speaker 2: killed me if she knew. But I mean we throw
Speaker 2: her in practice sometimes and she she gives these kids.
Speaker 1: Hell.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that she is. They don't pay attention
Speaker 2: to her, so knock down the free in their face.
Speaker 2: He'll take the ball from them. You know, it's just
Speaker 2: a I can't tell you. This is the first time
Speaker 2: that we've had a losing non conference record, right, this
Speaker 2: is the first time that we've had this type of
Speaker 2: adversity with being young and being injured. And I cannot
Speaker 2: imagine feeling this good about the season and the team.
Speaker 2: And I know it's just because of the people that
Speaker 2: we've recruited and the people that I've hired.
Speaker 1: So well said hey, I'm so happy for you. It
Speaker 1: was a cool scene seeing everybody celebrate on the court
Speaker 1: and on the postgame TA cameras on the court and
Speaker 1: just to look on everybody's faces. It was a really
Speaker 1: cool vibe. Last night, congrats and best of luck the
Speaker 1: rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We look forward to seeing you again.
Speaker 1: All right, Take care, coach.