Basketball - February 3, 2025

Guests: Martin Ingelsby, Macon Emory, Sarah Jenkins, Chloe Wilson

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
You are listening to the Klondike Kates Blue Hens Basketball
Coaches Show presented by First State or the b Dix,
featuring men's basketball head coach Martin Inglesby and women's basketball
head coach Sarah Jenkins on ninety four to seven wdsd FM,
the Fox Sports twelve ninety and the iHeartRadio app. Welcome
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Street in Newark, Delaware.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
And welcome into the Blue Hens Basketball Coaches Shows.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Then my first day Orthopedics.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's been so long since the broadcasted live from the
heart of Main Street, but it's good to be back
at Klondike Kates. You're tuned into ninety four to seven
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm Scott Klatskin.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Tonight we'll talk hoops with both the men's and women's
basketball team starting at seven point thirty. We'll hear from
women's basketball head coach Sarah Jenkins as well as her
leading rebounder Chloe Wilson in the building as well. Plus
I'll be chatting in just a little bit with a
promising freshman making Emery.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Is in the building.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Get it up for making, but first keep it going
for our men's basketball head coach Martin angles Bus here, everybody,
it is it's been a while since we've been in.
We got snowed out at Kate's the one our first
time schedule here, so it's been since November since we've
had the coaches show here. During football season. Usually I'll
open up with just like a hey, how are you doing?

(01:19):
But that's more of a loaded question that this day, so.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
We should flip flip the angle of everything.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I do know, you know it is a tough span
of the schedule right now, and you guys are fighting
your battle and you're you're in games right now.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
So you know, you get home from New.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Jersey on Saturday and whether it's Sunday or Monday, getting
the team together after that, what's kind of what's the
message to the team. Let's start there, like, what's the
message to the team right now when you guys get
together for practice?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Act we having the first thing we do.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
We practiced at six am this morning and I told
our guys, you know, we're not where we need to
be as a basketball team on February third, and you
know we all take respond. It's ability for that me,
as the leader of the program, take ownership of that.
I know our coaching staff does. And you can eitherr
fad feel bad about yourselves or you can come in
every day and attack it.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
And that was my message to our group.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
So we practiced at six am this morning, had a
good workout, and came back in the afternoon and had
some skill work and some shooting, and then we're gonna
practice again in the morning. So the guys seemed to
like it, so just had to maybe change the karma
a little bit. We have a tough stretch, three out
of four on the road, lost a really tough one
to thousand. But you know, we've been playing good basketball.
I think we just haven't been as consistent as we

(02:32):
need to be, and we got to find ways to
be more consistent and finish games. You know, this group
is needs to learn how to win, and I have
to help them down the stretch. But we need to
get back to practice and have a couple of good
tuneous before we play again.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I feel bad for making Megan and say up so late.
Now I know he had practice.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Somebody guys probably slept in the locker room. They didn't
want to miss it because they knew they needed to
be ready to go this morning.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'm sure they were ready to to get going. I mean,
the team has lost four games in a row. I
was looking it up to see. You know, this is
not the norm. You know, you guys have set the
standard here at Delaware and it's not like this is
a regular occurrence. You guys have not lost four games
in a row since the last four games in twenty nineteen.
So it's not just new for this player. You guys

(03:17):
have been winning consistently. It's new for you and your
coaching staff too. How are you adjusting to having to
snap out of a streak like this?

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, I mean I haven't slept a whole lot in
the last two weeks.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
I'll tell you that, but just trying to, you know,
continue to stay positive. We're in this together, continue to
teach in these moments of adversity, and trying to keep
perspective with our group. And there's times where I got
to be really hard and get after these guys, but
also they know we really care about them and we're
going to figure this out. And we got a lot
more basketball to play. We got eight games left. Our

(03:48):
focus really was just having a really good practice today
and then coming back tomorrow punching the clock and see
if we can have another good day. We have a
stretch of five of six games in a row in
our home building. We played really good basketball here, and
you know, it's more about what we need to do
and the consistency and the level that we have to
play at to win games in the CIA.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
And you touched on a little bit but coming into
you know, we talked to your post game and there
are some really good things that we've been able to
talk about that has occurred in the last couple of
games as well. For the sake of argument, let's say
that Towsand's the best team in the CIA. They were
picked first, and they're in first place, and with three
forty three left to go, you're in a position where
you are at the free throw line and a chance

(04:30):
to go ahead by three and unable to do that
to finish it out. The margin of error is so
thin in conference games.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
It really is, and every game is different.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
You know, one game against thousands in the fifties and
then we play a game at mamoth Is in the eighties,
and you know, our ability to just kind of find
that sweet sweet spot of how we need to play.
And you know, a lot comes down to like our
ability to get stops on the defensive end, and that
is an area where this group has to get better at.
We got to be more consistent with our habits, our fight,
our tough our ability to rebound the basketball. We can score,

(05:03):
but we can't get into these games where it's eighty
to ninety points, you know, so many possessions and putting
so much pressu on our defense. And then you know,
finding different ways to play and win games. And do
we have to play a little slower maybe to take
a step half step back offensively to be able to
help us a little more.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
On the defensive end.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
But again, you continue to show film, You continue to
show the good stuff that we do, and then the
breakdowns we have and how do we minimize the breakdowns
to be able to win a game and set us
a long time ago. It's amazing what one win can
do for the confidence of a group. So to be
ready to go on Thursday night against a really good
UNC Wilmington team, could I think give us a boost
as we head into the latter part of this conference.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Play.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, as we talk about finishing some of these ball games.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
The last five minutes against Drexel, only four points in
the final eight minutes.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Excuse me against Drexel, Townsend outscored like it was close games.
Then it's a ten point loss.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
It kind of ballooned at the end, and then Monmouth
struggled from the field a bit at the end of
the beast Do you feel like your team, you know,
what one win can do for a team on I'll
take the flip side of that, what one loss can do?
Are they are they feeling we lost two, we can't
lose this. When we lost three, we can't lose this.
What do you feel like they're feeling some pressure down
the show?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
I think a little tightness.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
I mean, we we practice those situations and and you know,
for me, it's trying to figure out, like who do
we go to from an offensive standpoint and at the
end of the game, or we get into some ball
screening situations as a cabin and era coming off stuff,
do we have to try to post up John Camden teams?
You know how they're guarding us, and you know, we
got to take care of the basketball too, you know,

(06:34):
valuing the basketball. We got to be able to not
beat ourselves. And I think as we watch these films
and give feedback to our group, a lot of times
we're like beating ourselves with whether it's a turnover or
a poor shot selection. I think you've seen that the
last couple of games, and you know, continue to work
on those situations every day we go to practice. Tomorrow,
we're gonna have a four minute segment and the game
and our ability to execute and me giving our guys

(06:56):
a little more direction of like where we need to
exactly go with the basketball is something that I have
to do a better job of and just kind of
controlling that a little more than maybe previous groups we've
had where you could trust that, hey, we're gonna work
to get a good shot. We know who we're going
to and you know that is something that hey, sometimes
the ball doesn't go in, but actually we're going to

(07:16):
execute and work to get a great one.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Here is there And this is not on Hey, if
we had Niles, we would have won both these games
or anything like that. But the fact that that Niles
has been out, he missed the final four minutes of
that that Towson, that very tight Townson game, then was
not able to go at mommth.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
He is your top defender.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
He would have been on a guy maybe like Dylan
Williamson or maybe dur the other the other night against
mom Myth. And you know, going back to even like
the Campbell game, I think of last year on the
road or Northeastern. I know that the shot didn't drop
up in Boston, but he was the guy with the
ball in his hands, Like when you're talking about trusting
a guy with the ball in their hands down the stretch,
kind of missing the guy that probably would have been

(07:55):
in his hands.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah, I mean he's, you know, a leader out there
or a captain for us. He's got a great presence.
Unfortunate against Tows and he got a hit point or
really sore, but not having one of your most experienced
basketball players, college basketball players out there to be able
to make winning players for us down the stretch. It
is important for our team and we need him out there,
whether it's on the offensive end, or he's guarding the
kid Basher, he's guarding Williamson, or you know he's taking

(08:19):
one of their you know, go to guys away on
the defensive end. And you know, you know, we've been
dinged a little bit. I know women's basketball has been
danged harder than anybody, but you know, not having guys
at key times for us has hurt us in some
of these, especially road games.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, and as you go towards the bench and having
guys having possibilities of moving up. Niles Lane was out
of the game against mom Kevin Cogbara got his first start.
He certainly earned it. It was some really solid minutes against Townson.
But going back to just like a conversation we had
in the beginning of the season when you were working
on some lives. Think Houston started one game, making them
started the next game. But we had a conversation of

(08:54):
like you you wanted to see who that next, that
first big off the bench would be when when John
Cannon comes out, nobody necessarily took the reins.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Really grasp that opportunity.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
When you look at Gabe Moss and Kevin Kagbar and
and Houston Emory, like a chance to be that guy?
What are you saying to them, like, this is what
we need from you to be able to be in
the rotation to get more minutes. What do you need
to see from.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
I think it's pretty simple the guys that can defend
and guys that can read on the basketball, and that's
what we preach every every day. And the guys that
do that consistently day in and day out at practice
are going to be rewarded with the opportunity to be able.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
To do it.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
You know, Kevin's physical, He's got some size. He'd look
great as an offensive lineman or d lineman with his
you know, feet and his size. But we're just looking
for some consistency out of those guys on the front line.
And you know, I do think Kevin had a good
two days for us to be able to do some things.
And you know, Gabe's a young guy, he's still learn
and he had an opportunity.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Houston's been dealing with some.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Stuff a little bit off the court, but we're getting
him back into practice and he can be active.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
So you're just trying to mix and match.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
I think that is an area where we just need
somebody to kind of take ownership and be like, k
that's that's my spot, right, I'm gonna play, I'm gonna
get better, and we're gonna continue to best in that guy.
And you know that's earned throughout practice.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
And We've got a guy that we're gonna talk to
in a little bit that seems like you can play anywhere.
He can play a little bit on the wing, you
can play big. He leads a team in blocks, and
he can shoot the ball as well. We're happy to
have him on the squad. I'll talk to a little
bit more about him in a little bit, but we're
gonna take a time out. Thank you very much, coach,
and we'll come back making Emery will join the program
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Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm Scott class Can, so happy to be joined now
by making Emery Macon.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Thank you so much for being here.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
All right, Macan, welcome to Delaware. First off, your first
year on campus here a Delaware and I think the
rest of your classmates got back to campus today as well, right,
classes start back up, all right, fantastic. Well, how have
you enjoyed being on campus, being at Delaware so far?

Speaker 11 (12:48):
Yeah, it's been amazing so far. I've had a lot
of great times here, and you know, especially going from
high school basketball and transitioning in the college basketball, it's totally different.
But you know, I've been blessed with a lot of supports.
Half and you know, my brother's here, so that makes
it a lot easier. And then especially Isaiah makes it
easier too. The other freshmen. You know, we're roommates, so
we're always getting wrong hanging out. So yeah, just being

(13:08):
with him makes it like.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's good to have somebody else going through it at
the same time. Adjusting to college life and college basketball,
what has been the biggest adjustment for you kind of
going from high school basketball and now playing at the
Division one level.

Speaker 11 (13:20):
I'd say the biggest adjustment is just the pace and
the speed. I think I was blessed with a great
high school coach who prepared me well, but nothing can
compare you for the speed of the game. So yeah,
it's definitely the biggest thing. But yeah, I think I've
taken my time and been able to adjust.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, yeah, it does, and it takes some time, right Like,
I think that once the calendar turned twenty twenty five,
something clicked for you right there. I think as soon
as we turned the page and got into twenty twenty five,
got into conference play, you reeled off like three straight
double figure games coming off the bench and just getting
a start as well. What maybe clicked for you once
we got into conference play.

Speaker 11 (13:53):
I think what clicked is I was just overthinking a
lot of things. My coaches just told me, like I
need to just shoot the ball, like Kevin Rye, Like
I have no care. So I started to try and
do that, and just I started hitting and stuff started
to falling in as well. Just with Martin being so
he emphasizes the rebounding and defense. So I've just been
trying to do my best to rebound and stay in
front of my in front of my man. So yeah,

(14:16):
I think that just just collectively been able to give
me some time in minutes.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Well, we have loved watching you play and the energy
that you bring to the team, and there's been games
where you're you're scoring on one end and blocking shots
on the other, and you're able to do so many
different things.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
You're a versatile player.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
You talked about shooting the three ball and being able
to defend and and do things that guys can do
at different positions. Is that part of the what what
brought you to Delaware in the sense that like they
allowed you to maybe be a guard forward instead of
as a taller guy play the four or five position.

Speaker 11 (14:46):
Yeah, No, that was it was very appealing from Delaware,
just especially on my visit, Martin was telling me that
we're gonna get a lot of shots up and a
lot of shots for me. So that's, yeah, obviously that's
what I want to hear. But yeah, it's just been
It's part of the game I want to play.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'm sure that it helped also that your brother is
a part of the Delaware basketball roster as well. You
took visits to other schools, you went to Florida Golf Coast,
you went to your parents' home matter as well, to
check that out.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Was that always part of the plan or just kind.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Of worked out that he was at Delaware and that
was a bonus but not necessarily that the plan all along.

Speaker 11 (15:18):
Yeah, No, it was definitely a bonus. I think it's
kind of worked out with this how I fit and
you know, what they wanted from me, So I think
it was just the best choice out of the three.
And then you know, obviously having Hughston here is just
another huge bonus and it definitely compelled me to commit here.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
What is it like playing with your brother?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Because you bounced around a little bit in high school,
din't nessarily play all four years of high school basketball
with your brother.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
What's it like being on the team again and rejoining him.

Speaker 8 (15:39):
Yeah, it's been great.

Speaker 11 (15:41):
Looking back when we used to play in high school,
it was always like it was always special being able
to grind it out with my brother and you know,
have him by my side. And then you know, he graduated,
I went to my thing, and then now I'm back
with him and we're both grinding it out and we're
both competing.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
So it's just a blessing to be honest.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's fantastic that you are here talking about your high
school days though. And if you remember going back to
the social media that goes out in the graphics and
just watching some of your video from high school. When
you originally signed with Delaware, you had crazy long hair,
and please go back and look at the grab I mean,
like down to past your shoulders for sure, Well past

(16:16):
your shoulders.

Speaker 6 (16:17):
Where did it go?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Why did you cut it?

Speaker 8 (16:20):
Well, I've had that for my whole life.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I'm sure you started growing it as a baby, that's
how long it was.

Speaker 11 (16:25):
Yeah, So my senior year, I was just I kind
of got tired of it. I was tired of having
to you know, hold it out of like hold it
out of the way. When I was trying to eat
food and you would get in my food. It was
just annoying. So I decided to cut it, and you know,
I think it worked out for the better. My parents
like it a lot more. They say, I'm much more presentable.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
So yeah, as well, you look you do look great now.
But it was certainly it was a look. It was
a decision for sure, But you look great. We're glad
you're here. Short hair or long. We're talking with making memory.
A freshmen leads a team in block shots, and you
are from a basketball family. Obviously we know your brother.
This is a ed laferge stat Houston and make An

(17:00):
Emory are one of seventeen sets of brothers to play
together and two of just five players in the country
to have a parent play for a conference opponent. So
the fact that you are in the same conference at
where your parents played they both played at William and Mary.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
How did they influence you growing up in the game
that you love.

Speaker 11 (17:19):
Yeah, they introduced me to basketball when I was really young,
so it's kind of just something I stuck with. And
you know, I think my dad loved watching me play,
and I just love seeing my dad, you know, be
happy about me playing. So yeah, it's always been part
of my life and it's all even something I loved. Yeah,
growing up, just my dad would tell me, like his
stories about how he would always be like sitting in
a bene and he wouldn't play much. But you know,
I still look up zoning that aspect of basketball and

(17:42):
just how he's been able to, you know, take his
life and just create something else from it and you know,
allow us to be part of this game.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well, he was still able to play college basketball, which
is more than what ninety nine percent of high school
basketballs can say. Your mom, there was no sitting on
the bench, that's for sure, because she was William and
Mary's all time leader in block shots. How how proud
is she knowing that her son right now, with fourteen
blocks on the year is leading this programs.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
They're both super proud.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
But or how did she maybe teach you some timing
on the block shots as well?

Speaker 3 (18:15):
I'm sure she impacted your game.

Speaker 11 (18:17):
I think she impacted my game more from just yelling
in the stands.

Speaker 8 (18:21):
She was always yelling in the stands and like.

Speaker 11 (18:22):
Middle school, high school game, so now I just hear
my mile scream and it kind of just motivates me
to push myself.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
A little bit harder.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, it is awesome that they are there to cheer
you on. Your dad did grow up in Delaware, though
he's from Milford, Delaware. That's about I think thirty minutes
or so from Rehobe with Beach. Have you been to
the Delaware beaches at all?

Speaker 6 (18:39):
Did you ever?

Speaker 11 (18:39):
Was that a vacation spot of yours. I have our grandparents.
They have a house in Rohoba's Beach, so we'd head
down there all the time and you know, hang out,
have a good time.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
This summer, it's a good spot.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well, we'll have the I guess the team will come
down to the beach house in the summer and hang out.
Another unique thing about you, and I could be wrong,
it's in terms of my memory, I think you have
the first nil deal that has been promoted like during
a game in the stadium. I could be wrong, but
it's it's certainly noticeable at at the Bob Carpenter Center,

(19:08):
which is awesome, and I think there's a different clientele
and different so I think it's okay to be at
Cloina Kates and talk about across the street. Helen's Sausage
House is the nil deal that you have. It is
making for bacon, which is fantastic. Tell us how it
came about. It really came out of nowhere.

Speaker 11 (19:26):
We were on the bus about to leave and coach
just called me up and I was like, why is
he calling me up?

Speaker 8 (19:30):
He called me up.

Speaker 11 (19:30):
He's like, hey, Helen, Helen's Sausage House wants to do
a deal with you. I was like, what he said,
making for bacon. I was like, oh, okay, that makes
a look more sense. Now, that's that's probably why.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Have you have you thanked your parents for the game,
because if your name was Carl, you would not have
an nil deal.

Speaker 11 (19:46):
No, that was like the first thing I said to
my mom. I was like, yep, give me the right name.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Can you just walk in there and grab breakfast at
any point in time?

Speaker 8 (19:52):
I think so, I have yet to do that. Actually,
give it a try.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm sure they have a card with your face on
it or a picture of you somewhere if you walk
in free food.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
But I think that's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
And we're living in an age where where players can
can make money or make whatever deals they can off
their image and liked it. So I think it's fantastic
and it's fun as well. I think there's gonna be
some type of a shooting contest as well at.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
One of the games.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
People that registered, so really awesome stuff. Talking with Nakan
Emery as you wrap up with this segment, a couple
of questions just for fun, rapid fire at the end
of the segment. Here, all right, if I'm talking basketball
and I'm talking NBA players, and I say, and I'm
referring to Mellow, who am I talking about Carmel Carmela?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
That's the right question for me.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Many younger people will say, LaMelo ball, that's the new
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But yeah, a lot of people, that's a popular that's
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So the Grammys were this Sunday. Next Sunday, we've got
the super Bowl. You got the Chiefs or the Eagles?

Speaker 8 (21:14):
The Eagles?

Speaker 6 (21:14):
The Eagles.

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Speaker 2 (21:23):
And then lastly, your favorite part of being a Blue
Hen and part of this program.

Speaker 11 (21:27):
I think we're all just connected really well. I love
the guys on the team. We all you know, especially
like after practicing the hard practice, we all bond in
the locker room and you know.

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Chat it all out.

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We are so glad that you are here and you
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(24:00):
job up here.

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That was fun fabulous.

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Speaker 5 (24:03):
On the ship or had him on the radio after
some nice performances.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
But he's a great addition to the ball club and
really a great contributor in year one. Coach, let's talk
about the upcoming schedule as we go Thursday Saturday, of course,
but this time of both home games with your reference,
which is great for the Hens. They played so well
at the Bob Carpenter Center. I know your focus though,
is on UNSW first and foremost on Thursday night, So

(24:27):
I want to start with Then, they've won six in
a row. They've scored eighty points in each of those games.
This is a very talented basketball club. They're pretty deep
with guys that can score it. What do we need
to know about the Seahawks.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, I mean they're a talented group. They got some transfers.
They play fast. They got a kid, Donovan Nuby who's
a fifth year, maybe a six year senior who's been
on the team the last couple of years, who can
really shoot the basketball.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
They got some size.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
They're gonna try to pick us up and push the pace,
whether it's full core man a man some three quarter
court pressure. They switch a lot of stuff in the
half court, and they have a lot of guys that
play and a lot of guys that contribute. So we
got to really be locked in on scouting report in
our preparation. And you know, it's a great opportunity for us,
a team ahead of us in the standings, to be
able to knock off on our home floor.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Well, there are teams at the top of the standings
the rest of the way, as the CIA kind of
gave you a good written down the stretch here the
final eight games, your opponents have a fifty three and
twenty four can bine record.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Twelve of those losses are Drexel in Hofster.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
You're playing the first place team on the road, the
second place team twice, the third place teams both the
third place teams, one of which is defending champions on
the road, and then the fifth place team, and then
two teams that you played before in Hofstra and Drexel.
Knowing that is so such a daunting task, like how
do you take it one game at a time?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
I guess there's no other way.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah, I mean, you know, our focus is obviously day
by day and see if we can get the want
to know on Thursday night, that's all our focuses, and
everybody wants to talk about what lies ahead. We know
what the challenges are, the lives ahead against great basketball teams.
You know, I think when a conference schedule came out
at the beginning of the year, when you get coaches
in the league texting you and calling you, said hey,
I thought we had a hard schedule. Then I looked

(26:11):
at your schedule. They the league did us no favors
on the way out, I'll tell you that. But you know, again,
it's about us what we need to do at seven
am tomorrow to be able to have a great day
of practice and then see if we get the one
to know on Thursday night.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
That's all our focuses.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
That's our singular you know, approach and focus to be
able to get ready to go on Thursday night.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
And in case saying listen is like, well, how were
they supposed to know who was going to be good
this year? The final eight games of your schedule six
games against twenty win teams from last season, which is
just unheard of. I mean they really were like, all right,
well we'll see on your way to conference. You us say
they did us no favors, but you know, I know you'll.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Be ready to have unbalanced scheduling. You know, when you
had more teams in the league, it's not always equal.
They show TV games, no money night games, and yeah,
you know, no, Sarah and I talk about it all
the time, but you know, they they're they're they're not
happy with the Blue Hens leaving.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
They were not and they showed on the calendar. But
let's talk.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I want to take just a quick step away from basketball.
As the Super Bowl is coming up. I know you're
an Eagles fan. Are there any other big Eagles fans
on the team? Making said he was going for the Eagles?
I know, like Air was like obsessed with Was there
anybody on this year's team that is invested into the
Super Bowl?

Speaker 5 (27:26):
I don't know Dieharts, No, no, but we do have
some conflict in our family. My little guy Ben, who's
you know, the youngest, he's seven.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
He's a big Pastrick Mahomes fans.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
He got a Mahomes jersey for Christmas. He wears it
around the house all the time.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
You're gonna make him watch it?

Speaker 6 (27:44):
Does he have to sit in?

Speaker 5 (27:44):
He was rooting against the Eagles because you think he
didn't think the Commanders.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Could beat the Chiefs.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
So he's gonna get a little nervous on Sunday night,
him and he and my son can can watch the
game together.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
They're both He's for the Chiefs as well, so but
everyone else will be. We wearing green, I suppose to.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Speaking of Philadelphia, we had our last visit to Drexel
the other day, our last visit to Hofstro will have
our last visit to Towson coming up.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
So those are some historical rivals.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
I know we're not quite in the phase where we're
talking about games and upcoming seasons, but is there a
possibility perhaps or would you like it if we could
continue that rivalry matchup with Drexel.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, I mean every school that you just mentioned, they've
reached out and to start a home at home. The
interesting thing is, you know Conference USA is going to
twenty league. It's twenty league games moving forward, so that's
two less non conference games for us to schedule, and
then just depends on what we have on the books
and then what the MTE is, so things that we're evaluating.
But you know, some of the scheduling takes you know,

(28:45):
years in advance, so we already have locked in some
games for next year, so you know, I have an
open mind to it, just trying to figure out what
best for us moving forward. Definitely staying in this geographical
region I think would be important for us in these
non conference games. You know, we're talking to an A
ten team locally about doing a home at home next year,
which I think would be great to have in our building.
So you know, maybe not next year playing one of

(29:05):
those teams, but definitely down the road, would like to
continue to keep them on the schedule.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Fantastic.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
And then lastly, speaking about your building, we will be
there the next two games. Students are back on campus.
It would be huge if the Hens could get a
nice home court advantage with some fans in there to
get the Hens back on track on Thursday and seven.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
We need it, you know, we need some energy on campus.
The students are back Thursday night, six thirty against one
of the best teams in the CIA, So come on
out a little happy hour and go go support the
Blue Hens.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Coach, we know you will have them ready. Thanks so
much for coming on here. Thanks all right, that's our
head coach, Martin Englesby. We'll take a break When we
come back, Matt Janis takes over. He's with Sarah Jenkins.
You're listening the Blue Hens Basketball Coaches Show at ninety
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Speaker 6 (32:08):
And Welcome Back Clondike Cats Main Street in Newark. It
is the University of Delaware who has Basketball Coaches Show
on Matt janis joined by the head coach of the Hens,
Sarah Jenkins. Fresh off a win on Sunday. How good
does that sound?

Speaker 22 (32:23):
Amazing? I don't know the last time we came on
the show, and I got to say that.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
It's been a few weeks. I'm not going to lie.
The beautiful thing about you. You know, you are somebody
that you interact well with people. You love talking to people.
You are a people person, but not necessarily after games,
especially when it goes the wrong way, and yet people
gravitate towards you. So we will be in these airports

(32:48):
at the end of tough road losses and people will
just magically start coming up to you and ask you
how the game went, and you kind of work your
way through the conversation. You explain in painstaking detail how
the game unfolded. But yesterday we were sitting at the
restaurant waiting for the flight to leave from Boston as
Delaware beating Northeastern on Sunday afternoon to get back into

(33:09):
the win column, and you were just booking for conversations.
You were trying to get people to come over so
you could tell them how the game went.

Speaker 22 (33:16):
I could not wait for somebody to ask me, Hey,
how to go. I was like looking for people. I
was like, hey, we had a game today. We won.
People were like, okay, great.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Last at one stage, she just stood up and said,
I'm a basketball coach. That's what I was walking around.

Speaker 22 (33:28):
I coached basketball my team one to day.

Speaker 15 (33:31):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (33:31):
No, it's a it's a great feeling. It's been a
it's been a while, you know, as we know, this
year has been tough.

Speaker 12 (33:36):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (33:37):
And our kids are learning, you know, how to battle
and how to fight, and they were extremely resilient to
win on the road. You know, I tell you all
the time. Martin and I's offices are right next to
each other, and I know he hates me because I
go in there every morning and complain about something, and
so he's like, hey man, you just gotta If you

(33:57):
can get one game on the road, that's a good weekend. So,
you know, tough one on Friday. We should have had
it and we blew it. But I'm proud of them
for Sunday going back. Had to travel, you know, late
game Friday night, had to get up early, practice, travel,
and for them to get up early Sunday and play
and compete and come out with a W. I'm very

(34:18):
proud of them.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
So the game on Friday at Towson, you get out
to a twenty six thirteen lead. First, why would you?
You brought it up?

Speaker 3 (34:27):
But I just brought it up.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
I was transitioning to the positive, so.

Speaker 22 (34:32):
I circled around it. Then you went into detail like
with the score. Wow, I just said, we played Friday,
we blew it, but we won on Sunday. You should
have just stayed on Sunday.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Just give me a moment here. I'm gonna I'm gonna
yarn this into a positive situation. But I do have
to give one more negative stat first. One of the
reasons why it went the wrong way in that game
on Friday, a devastating performance on the glass from Towson.
They out rebounded you by nineteen the final twenty minutes
of that game. And I know that was something that

(35:03):
you've been talking to with your team all season long,
but certainly came into extra focus on Saturday as you
had a quick turnaround to try to prepare for that
Northeastern game. You guys went out against the Huskies on
Sunday probably turned in your best all around rebounding performance
of the season, led by the person we're going to
talk to it a little bit, Chloe Wilson. I think
she just pulled down another rebounding She got seventeen in

(35:24):
that way.

Speaker 22 (35:25):
Unbelievable performance by her. Now she's got to do that
every game or she's gonna hear it from me. But
phenomenal rebounding performance for her. And yeah, I mean I
keep talking about it, but rebounding has been our Achilles Hill,
you know, And a lot of it is strategically. You know,
we play a lot of zone now. You know, everybody
doesn't know the difference. But man to man and zone

(35:47):
are two different types of defensive schemes, and we just
have low numbers, and with us playing forty eight hours apart,
it's hard for our kids to play man to man
with seven or eight kids, you know, for forty minutes
back to back nights, and so as coaches, we've got
to try to preserve some of their legs and shift
more to playing some zone. And it's really hard to
rebound out of a zone because of the rotations and

(36:09):
where you end up, and so we've really been struggling
on that front. So to see them Sunday, we played
more man on Sunday than we usually do, so that
probably helped us a little bit.

Speaker 6 (36:19):
It worked out pretty well. It seemed like every move
you guys made in the second half is Northeastern made
three different rallies to try to get it back within
a single score. You guys always had a counter punch,
and that's something that you've been talking about as well,
about responding to adversity. You guys have done a good
job of a big picture because you keep getting knocked
off of this scheduled plan and you have to keep

(36:39):
kids keep coming back and working and doing everything you
ask of them. It's with end game where you've struggled
a little bit. How big was that to be able
to take a counter punch and then find one yourself.

Speaker 22 (36:50):
Yeah, you know, it's just I'm proud to see our
kids do it, and I think it was important for
them to see themselves doing it, you know, Like it's
devastating this for me to get news that somebody's out,
Like earlier this week we got news that another kid
was out and sick and out for two weeks, you know,
and so we every week, I feel like this team

(37:10):
is getting getting a blow or just hearing some news
that doesn't that you don't want to hear. And that's
been our story all year. And as devastating as it
is for me, it's tough for them too, because this
is another moment where they have to be required to
do something outside of what they're used to doing. And
so for them to handle the adversity, to handle the
run from Northeastern and to really come out with a win,

(37:31):
I couldn't be proud. And I think that I think
that was our step. I hope that was our jump
and that we can learn from that and feel good
about that doing that on the road and propel us
this weekend coming up.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
Well, that piece of bad news that you got was
another point guard loss. Sydney Boone goes back out, so
that moves Tar Cousins to your starting point guard position,
and then Jia Perry having to come off the bench
and play some backup point guard. I'm not sure that's
something that she did a lot coming up in a
game of basketball. How about the effort she was able
to give you a few minute channeling the basketball and

(38:05):
then Tara played out of position yet again did a
great job on Sunday.

Speaker 22 (38:08):
Yeah, neither one of them play point guard.

Speaker 6 (38:09):
Ever.

Speaker 22 (38:12):
We're in such a tough spot. But again, I just
I appreciate the kids just being willing to do what
we need them to do to try to get to
try to get some w's and to help us compete.
And they've been working hard. We've been doing a lot
of stuff off court, like ball handling and decision making
to kind of help them get a little bit more
comfortable playing in the role because you know, like like

(38:32):
playing with a point guard. I know I keep saying this,
but it's like playing a football game without a quarterback.
And we've been doing that all year long, and it
is such a difficult task. And so I am super
proud of these kids, Tara Jaya for just coming in
and stepping up and doing the best they can.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
How about the effort that you got from Chloe Wilson,
somebody that sometimes plays the game like you thinks she
might be a point guard. The way she's dribbling up.

Speaker 22 (38:55):
And down, I get where every time she does it,
she looks at me out the corner of her eye
and then she just keeps going. But I'm giving her
the side eye every time she does it.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
Worked pretty well on Sunday. I think maybe she's got
a guard future in her, But.

Speaker 22 (39:08):
Don't tell her that because she wants to be a
point guard, So don't tell her that when she comes up.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
Point guard mindset, everybody, all hands on deck. Door eye
contact is a critical thing. But the open communication that
you have had with her during her two years at Delaware,
and just the kind of kid that when you need
something you're talking about sliding over to make eye contact.
You guys just kind of have a nonverbal way of

(39:33):
getting your message across.

Speaker 22 (39:35):
Yeah, I would. I want to tell you about this kid,
Chloe Wilson. She has grown so much since she walked
through the doors here, and I couldn't be any more
prouder of any kid on our roster. And our relationship
has gotten so close, and I really depend on her
a lot. And she's a kid that I trust. I
hold her a super I hold her to a very
very high standard, and sometimes I get on her nerves.

(39:56):
She's like, coach, why you always on my back? You
always on me. I am on her because she's a
special kid, and she's come in and she's brought into
the culture, she's brought into the vision. You know, she's
been doing great in the classroom. She's great on the
court for us. She's very vocal. And every day I
never go on my office and say, man, Chloe Wilson
didn't practice hard. To dear Chloe Wilson didn't play hard.

(40:17):
She works hard for us every day and I am
so grateful for the opportunity to coach her and to
build a relationship with her. I mean, she she makes
my day better because the girl is funny. You know,
I thought I was the funniest person. The girl is
really funny.

Speaker 6 (40:32):
Is she is also the woman of a thousand facial
expressions over the course of one game as well as
she always has a way of making her point with
the official, but finding that line, not crossing that line,
never crosses it, but always well.

Speaker 22 (40:45):
She crossed it a couple of times we worked on that.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
You know, you tell me that I'm not allowed to
be negative, and then you keep teared to this pack.

Speaker 22 (40:51):
I just want to give her credit because she's matured.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
Okay, that's a good way to spend it. How about this,
What is the most lasting memory for where she has developed?
You talked about where she's come off the court, but
on the court, her game is taking some big strideses.
What was there a moment where you realize, oh, this
is gonna be different this year for Chloe.

Speaker 22 (41:11):
Yeah, it's just so many things, you know, Just again,
like when she stepped in early a year ago. You know,
she was always working hard, but now I see her
taking more of a leadership role in coaching other people
and bringing people along and talking and every day she's
one of the loudest people you know, in practice every
day and on the court, and now sometimes she might
not even be saying the right thing, but she's talking,

(41:32):
you know, and just getting everybody involved and getting everybody engaged,
you know, and so like it gets to the point
where when she's not talking, I noticed that she's not talking.
And so, you know, when you're coaching a team and
you're building a culture and you're trying to build chemistry,
communication is key. And she has just been such a
great leader on the floor for us from a communications standpoint,

(41:52):
and an example of effort and hard work. And I mean,
like I said, seventeen rebounds is crazy to be able
to do that in the game. And that's just the
type of motor and the type of effort that she
provides us day in and day out. Now she doesn't
do it on Friday, Yasha, I'll write letters and tell
her that she better step it up because she needs
to have seventeen to twenty rebounds again on Friday.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
And I'm the negative one. All right, Let's let you
rest your voice, because it sure sounds like you need it.
We'll talk to Chloe Wilson on the other side of
this break. This is the Blue's Basketball Coaches Show from
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Speaker 6 (44:13):
And Welcome Back Blue Men's Basketball Coaches Show. I'm mad Jannison,
We welcome in now the senior and the rebounding extraordinary
for this Telaware women's basketball program. Chloe Wilson got it
up to make our way out to cakes and Chloe,
that was a phenomenal performance from you guys. On Sunday,
as a team, we talked to coach Jenkins about the

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bounce back, the tough game on Friday, needing to get
that win, and having to go on the road playing
without a point guard. What was the team's mindset coming
into that game on Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 23 (44:43):
Honestly, it was like a will to win. We knew
that we really needed that win. We knew that we
we came up short on Friday and that was something
that we needed too. So Northeastern Northeastern game was like
a given, like we knew we had to There was
no way we're going to leave that gym without a wins.
So everybody was Everybody was bought into that game and

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was willing to put their bodies and everything on the line, and.

Speaker 22 (45:07):
That's what we did.

Speaker 6 (45:08):
You were the perfect example of that, the player that
stands up most. There was a situation where they had
cut the lead to two, and it was in a
fourth quarter and one of your teammates went in to
take a shot. You came in on the weak side.
There were three Northeastern players there in perfect position to
get the rebound, and you just kind of bullied your
way through all of them, grabbed the board, went back up,

(45:29):
got fouled. You seem to have a really good feel
for positioning in terms of rebounding. Is that something you've
always had, Is that an innate thing, or is that
something that you've learned over the course of your five
year career.

Speaker 23 (45:40):
Honestly, I think it's like both, Like I think it's
something that I had to get better at, but it
was something that I just had like a gnat for
just being able to find the position of where the
ball is going to fall. But yeah, it's something that
I've worked on for years and yeah it still helps
me to this day.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
So you know, Sarah has a lot of rules about
what questions we have to ask, and the one question
that she said we had to ask you if you
came on the show tonight is why don't you rebound
like that every single game?

Speaker 23 (46:08):
Honestly, I try, I really do try, But like you know,
a lot of teams know that I am somebody that
is very aggressive on the board, so it is kind
of hard.

Speaker 22 (46:18):
I'm not gonna lie in games.

Speaker 23 (46:19):
There are a lot of people looking for me, trying
to box me out every single possession before shot even
goes up.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
So you know, I do try.

Speaker 22 (46:25):
I try.

Speaker 23 (46:26):
I try hard, and I knew Friday I didn't. I
came up short on my end too, so I knew
that I had to like make it up, make it
up on Sunday. So that was something that I try
to do.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
I just like to note that question came from Jenkins' commissaria.
That was not for me. I try, I had give
an effort every single day. But you know, one of
the things that you are very fun to watch. On
top of your effort, you're also a scorer of the
basketball fifteen hundred career points. Now you're able to accomplish
that a couple of weeks ago on the road. How
good did that feel? A career milestone that you know

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a lot of players can only dream about it. Thousand
is a big deal for a lot of players.

Speaker 23 (47:01):
Yeah, honestly, it was an amazing feeling, and my teammates
made me feel even better.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Everyone was there supporting me.

Speaker 23 (47:08):
But just knowing that that was something that I wanted
to accomplish and I was willing to accomplish.

Speaker 22 (47:13):
It was just a blessing.

Speaker 23 (47:14):
And I just thank God every day that he put
me in this position and he's allowed me to excel
in this position.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
So it was a really great feeling.

Speaker 6 (47:22):
So I got the scoring, you got the rebounding. The
other thing that is fun to watch in terms of
the way you attack the game is your effort, but
also the way you wear your emotions on your sleeve,
particularly with the officials. You never have to doubt whether
you think it's a good call or not a good call.
I think the best analogy for you you are Delaware

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basketball is Charles Barkley. You always have the most sarcastic smile.
Do you practice those facial expressions in the mirror going
into the game.

Speaker 22 (47:52):
No, I think I practiced it.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
I practice, but.

Speaker 23 (47:57):
No, I honestly, it's something that I've definitely had to
work on. I need to leave them alone, I know,
but I know, I just I don't know. I do
wear my emotions on my sleeve, and I've tried to
tone it down, but I've noticed that that's just the
kind of player that I am, and I just have
to learn how to do it in more positive ways.

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And that's something that me and coach I've been working
on and I think, yeah, my teammates have been helping
me too.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
I think you've done a great job of it this year.
I mean, as Coacheck it said, you know, one or
two times last year, maybe there was a call or
two that that you just couldn't deal with. But this
year you just seem to have an open dialogue with
the officials. I've seen them crack up.

Speaker 23 (48:37):
I try to become best friends stuff. I have to
say hello, Hello, mister official, how are you doing today.
I hope you are having a great day. Like, yeah,
I try to, you know, be like a people person
with them, and like maybe it helps. Sometimes it helps
and sometimes it doesn't. But at the end of the day,
I just got to play my game and just leave
them alone. That's something that I'm still take making steps

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every day, taking steps every day. That's something we talk
about in practice with the team. We've got to just
take a step every day.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
For those listening on the radio, that was direct eye
contact with her head coach in the back of the
room that she was making sure that that was maybe
more for her than for the listening audience. But how
about it's working at least pretty well. You have the
second most free throws attempted in the CIA this season.
You realize you have more free throws attempted than if
you combine the totals of your second and third place teammates.

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I mean, you live at the line. Has that always
been a part of your game? That is something that's
always been a part of my game and something that I've.

Speaker 23 (49:36):
Made sure that I've made an impact on because a
lot of people cannot reguard my physical.

Speaker 22 (49:45):
Body, so I get fouled a lot.

Speaker 23 (49:48):
So something that I've tried to allow myself to excel
in so that I could get a lot of points.
This year, I have not been doing the best, but
it's something that I still try to keep working on.
It's more of a mental than anything I think. But yeah,
free throws are then I definitely pay attention to a
lot and try to get to the line.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
A lot in the game.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
I hear you being careful with your words because you
want to brag on yourself too much. You're allowed to
brag on yourself here. That's why we bring you out
here to this Blue You're amongst friends the Blue and
Basketball Coaches Show. Let's talk about some of your friends.
Your family. You came up with a very interesting background.
Both of your parents were involved in sports, but unique sports.
Your mom was a national team player in netball. What

(50:27):
is netball?

Speaker 23 (50:28):
Netball is kind of like basketball, but you're just candribble
and you don't have a backboard, and you have like
a certain person that shoots the ball, a certain person
and you have defenders.

Speaker 22 (50:40):
It's like a whole thing.

Speaker 23 (50:40):
You can start it up if you guys every want
to see.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
It's something that's it's.

Speaker 23 (50:43):
Really it's played in all parts of the country Australia, Germany, yeah,
all types of places.

Speaker 6 (50:49):
But it's just interesting.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
It's a really interesting sport.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
And your mom will take netball and kind of jam
it into basketball and she'll still coach up a little
bit sometimes, right.

Speaker 23 (50:58):
Yeah, she tells me that the reason why I'm a
good defender is because of her, and I'm.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
Like, okay, okay, period.

Speaker 23 (51:05):
But yeah, I think she tries to implement it a lot,
especially with the rebounding, how she was able to jump by,
you know, kind of things. She tried to teach me
a little kind of like a little stuff. But yeah,
I think that that was amazing that both of my
parents were able to play overseas and play in different
sports and stuff. And I think that that's definitely helped
me and being able to with my physical attribute to

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being able to be an athlete. I think that they've
definitely added to me.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Your dad was a professional cricket player, correct, so that
that's the sport. They can last multiple days if it
goes on love it up right, Yeah, some some games.

Speaker 23 (51:36):
A lot of the games I went to, it didn't
last multiple games, multiple days. Sorry, but yeah I can.
There's some games that can. They're different kind of games,
different kind of tournaments.

Speaker 22 (51:44):
But yes they can.

Speaker 6 (51:45):
Do you know the rules well? With cricket, I know some,
not a lot.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
I was really young.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
I used to go every Sunday.

Speaker 22 (51:50):
I have my mom and my dad.

Speaker 23 (51:52):
They had like a whole national tournament here in like
New York, and we would go all the time. Like
I'll spend summer watching cricket, but I was young, so
I'll be running around with other kids doing a bunch
of stuff, playing other sports and stuff. But I know
a couple of the rules, but not really the whole thing.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
I mean, I'm not even sure that the players know
all the rules. Is a very complicated game, it seems like.
And anything that can last three days, it just seems
too long. But yeah, that's just me to each their own.
How about for you, you are going for your master's
degree right now, talk about what you're studying, what you
want to use it for when you're done playing basketball.

Speaker 23 (52:28):
Yeah, I'm studying right now, international business, and I want
to just I still want to be a police officer,
and I want to use it towards my policing. So
I was in between strategic communication and international business, and
I just felt like that one would have helped me
more and it could have expanned me more to outside
of the US and stuff. But yeah, I think I
just want to go with that, and it keeps taking

(52:49):
steps forward to that.

Speaker 6 (52:50):
It's a beautiful thing. It's been so much fun to
watch you play. And I hope that you didn't set
the bar at seventeen rebounds because that's going to be
pretty tough the rest of the way. But you know
you can keep trying, right, yes, trying to take the
steps every day. We'll try to negotiate with Sara Jakinson
to get you a little bit lower bar. Appreciate it.
Thanks so much, Chloe Wilson. We'll take a break. We'll
get gets back with a fluent basketball coaches show.

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As you were listening to.

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The Blue Hen's Basketball Coaches Show on ninety four seven
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Speaker 6 (55:30):
And Welcome Back Blud's basketball coaches Shaw our vital segment
here tonight and Sarah Jenkins, head coach of the Blue Hens,
welcome back in and Chloe Wilson. All of your players
really so impressive. Chloe near the top of the list,
no doubt about it, what she was able to do
on the floor, but also, as you said earlier, how
she has grown as a person during her time here

(55:51):
at Delaware. You got her out of the transfer portal
from Fairleigh Dickinson, do you know what netball is? Though?
Have you figured that out? I'm still I've asked her
like four times. I still don't quite understand the rules.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Yeah, I'm really good at it, really, but why because.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
You're a natural shooter?

Speaker 21 (56:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (56:13):
M hm.

Speaker 6 (56:15):
Do you know how many points you get per basket?
And nepple I get a lot. All right, let's talk
about what's coming up this weekend. You got unc W
coming to down on Friday and then, uh, you know
we're on the road super Sunday. Of course we are,
because what else would we do on our last year
in the conference but missed the Super Bowl? But it
is unc W on a Friday, and you know the

(56:38):
UNCW coach really well you know all the coaches really well,
let's be honest.

Speaker 22 (56:41):
Yeah, I'm very popular, but.

Speaker 6 (56:43):
You're you're very close friends with her, and you know
that program and they've been playing really well. I know
you're proud of her forgetting things turned around.

Speaker 8 (56:50):
I am.

Speaker 22 (56:50):
I mean when she took over that program, it wasn't
in the best of shape. And you know last year
they weren't awesome. And what they've done and what she's
been able to do with them and they year, you know,
has been great. I hope they play absolutely awful on Friday.
I hope in this every shot, I hope they turn
them all over fifty times.

Speaker 6 (57:08):
But no, I am.

Speaker 22 (57:09):
I am extremely proud of what she's done with the
program and how she's got to move it in the
right direction.

Speaker 6 (57:14):
And for you and this team right now, you talk
about you can't take anything for granted. Got to keep
building upon what you were able to do on Sunday.
But you know, we talked about the rebounding the offense
though Rebecca Debaca coming up making some big shots. What
clicked there in that second happened? What can you build
upon that that maybe can carry over the next week.

Speaker 22 (57:36):
You know, that big thing is just you know, and
this is, to be honest, has been the thing that
we've been working on all years, just building our kids confidence.
And when you have people doing things that they're not
usually used to doing, their confidence takes a hit because
they're just not very good at it. And so we've
been working really hard to build our kids confidence and
the best thing they could do is to continue to
see themselves doing things well. And you know, we we've

(57:59):
want to every game where we've had four people in
double figures, and so all the games, the five games
that we've won or whatever we've won, we've had four
or more people in double figures. And that's the type
of team that we are. We don't have a star,
we don't have a batman, we don't have a best player.
We have a group of people that work collectively together
to achieve a goal. And for us to win moving forward,

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we've got to have three or four people in double digits.
And when we have that, it's been well for us.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
So last time we talked to you, you were very
optimistic about your new found love affair again with the
Washington Commanders and how that was going to turn out.

Speaker 22 (58:41):
I mean, first of all, what we've accomplished has been tremendous.

Speaker 6 (58:45):
It's back to we. It's still we even after the loss.

Speaker 22 (58:47):
Yeah, I mean, okay, you guys won, but we made
it to the championship. We had a great year, and
I mean, and that's what gives me hope. You know,
like we're gonna have a great year too. If the
Commanders can do it, the Blue Hens can do it,
and we're gonna have a great year, and we're gonna
go to the championship and we're gonna win it.

Speaker 6 (59:04):
The Commanders didn't do it though, you remember.

Speaker 22 (59:06):
That, but they made it to the championship, all right.

Speaker 6 (59:08):
I hate I'm all for the Blue Hens making it.
But Mark will still remind you they did not make it.
It did not happen.

Speaker 22 (59:14):
We didn't. But it's okay. The best is yet to come.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
We're for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 22 (59:18):
Not the Eagles. I'll tell you that. Not the Eagles.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
Got a prediction.

Speaker 22 (59:22):
I'm room for Taylor Swift. They say she might perform
at halftime.

Speaker 6 (59:29):
My four year old son told me that he thought
that he was very worried about Taylor Swis's boyfriend having
a big game in the Super Bowl. That's how he
described it, so I think that that is a good
thing to worry about. How about the halftime performance, you're
looking forward to that?

Speaker 22 (59:43):
Yeah, I always look forward to the halftime performance and
the commercials. The game is good too.

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Do you think that the team will be back home
by halftime?

Speaker 22 (59:52):
We're gonna get with Clark on the bus and tell
them to put the pedal to the medal.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
Every ten minutes he cuts off the trip. It's a
little extra.

Speaker 22 (59:59):
It's a love better for him if you can do that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
All right, coach, we really appreciate it.

Speaker 22 (01:00:03):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 6 (01:00:04):
All right the Blue Hens Basketball Coaches Show. Our next
one comes your way February the seventeenth at Lcassa Pasta
until then for Coach Jenkins, Chloe Wilson, Meekon Emery, Coach
Ingles B, Jay Hollihan back at our studios, and of
course the voice of the Blue Hens, Scott Kladskin, Matt Jannis.
Thanks so much for being with us. Mannor Home on

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