No one – I mean no one expected East Carolina go into that gym and get a win.
Micah was ready to take the reins and that's just what she did as the team ventured to the banks of the Mississippi River for a road date with the Memphis Tigers. And we made that change going on into Memphis, the next game, with Micah going in taking the point."Īnd so, it was time – a changing of the guard at the point.
At that point, we had put Jayla in the lineup, and I felt there was one more change that we needed to make. "And I felt like at that point, there was some other changes that we needed to make in line up. I still felt like it was a winnable game. I just looked at it as this is a part of the process. I didn't look at it as 'oh, this is a setback.' I didn't look at look at it that way. "You know, we always tell the team during games: you can't get too high, you can't get too low – you've got to kind of stay even keel. "In that process, there's going to be highs and lows," she said. ECU Women's Basketball being ECU Women's Basketball. To an outsider it looked to be a reversion to the mean. It simply wasn't a complete effort – a team effort. MyMy had a tremendous day with 16 points and 16 rebounds, but Danae slid into the background with four points while the team limped to a 55-47 defeat. It was only an eight-point loss, but ECU trailed by double-digits after a quarter and never seemed to be truly in the game. It was not a shocking loss, but looking back, it could have been a troubling one. It was a Tulsa team expected to have a good year. 30, the Pirates dropped a tough competition to a skilled Tulsa team. They had won, but according to Coach Kim, they didn't yet understand what they could be… Then they hit a speed bump. It had been the program's best start in some time, but they still had a daunting label to shed. They picked us last, indeed.Īfter a successful run in non-conference play, the Pirates had shown some ability to win tough games. "They picked us last!" she would infamously exclaim five months later. Sill, I can't describe Coach Kim's demeanor as anything other than Resolute. She understood the logic of it, I suppose.
Not exactly the moment you want to hear bad news.Ĭoach Kim was, perhaps, not surprised. It was moments before she went live on air for the AAC's media day on ESPN+. I was in the room when Coach Kim found out that her 2022-23 Pirates had been picked last, 11 th of 11 teams in the American Athletic Conference preseason standings – as voted on by her coaching peers.
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