Women's Basketball Growth In NCAA Tournament, March Madness

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00:00but it's really buying it into women's basketball.

00:03And they said yes, and they backed it up which way along the way.

00:07Now when I got there, that first year was a lot harder than anything I'd ever experienced

00:11because when it's not a winning culture, it shows up at different times in different ways.

00:16It's not bad people and it's not people not wanting to win, it's just you don't know how to.

00:21And so I really felt like that game was significant because we weren't a great team that year.

00:25But to beat the number two team in the country, I couldn't get recruits at that point to choose us

00:32over the schools in the Pac-12 that were better than us at that moment.

00:35But then eventually I had to get people that were willing to see the vision even before we were good.

00:41And so I just think there's been so much work that has gone into the infrastructures

00:47that then when we could get the talent and all the pieces and the people here committing to the culture stuff,

00:54then we were ready to go.

00:55So I don't know a time frame, maybe faster than what people thought,

00:58but to me like the work that went in to build it and then the right people coming

01:01and the people investing in it every day, it kind of feels like where we were supposed to be.

01:06This is where we wanted to be.

01:07And we now feel like disappointed that we didn't take this step this year, but obviously, you know.