Speaker 1: Big day, big day for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2: Spotify unwrapped right, that's out today, all over social media.
Speaker 1: So I was a little surprised to find out.
Speaker 2: Porter my number one band this year. Lord Huron, I
Speaker 2: thought they'd be on the list. You got yours, right,
Speaker 2: you got your Spotify.
Speaker 1: And rap today? I did.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: Our old boss, Cavon is a nerd. He was texting
Speaker 2: me about mine, but he's all about Amazon Music.
Speaker 1: So Amazon, Yeah, he's a nerd. Cavon's a nerd. Pandora too.
Speaker 1: Probably give me your number one band this year. It was.
Speaker 1: It's surprising. It was Willy Nelson, Willie Nelson.
Speaker 2: All right, well, we're gonna play a little music from
Speaker 2: our Spotify and rap today.
Speaker 1: I don't know if our next guest is a music fan.
Speaker 2: I've never interviewed him, but he's a hell of a
Speaker 2: basketball coach Gavin Peterson on a Thursday, Coach, how.
Speaker 1: You doing.
Speaker 3: Doing great? Thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker 2: So the question obviously is are you a Spotify guy?
Speaker 2: And then the follow up is did you get your
Speaker 2: Spotify and raped?
Speaker 3: No? I am not annoy I did not. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't think I've had much time other than focusing
Speaker 3: on the task at hand. The last couple of days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, Coach, I don't know you.
Speaker 2: This is the first time interviewing you, but I know
Speaker 2: coach doesn't have my whole life. You guys are lunatics,
Speaker 2: and so are you one of those grinders all you
Speaker 2: doing is watching tape getting ready for the next one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. We choose to do this, We get
Speaker 3: to do this, right, it is. It's definitely one of
Speaker 3: those things. I'm an early morning arrival guy at the office,
Speaker 3: have been for many years, and that's not going to change.
Speaker 3: It's just now there's a lot more added to the
Speaker 3: plate of responsibilities, and I welcome that. It's just trying
Speaker 3: to find that balance to focus on in between the
Speaker 3: lines basketball stuff that pertains to our team and our opponents,
Speaker 3: and then also wearing the hats that you need to
Speaker 3: in order to lead this program from all different facets.
Speaker 3: So yeah, still trying to figure it all out. But
Speaker 3: for the most part, I'm having fun doing it, and.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. Coach.
Speaker 2: And since this is my first opportunity to interview you,
Speaker 2: I will ask you some questions about yourself. I know, coach,
Speaker 2: you don't love to talk about themselves, but you've been
Speaker 2: at Utah for nine years and I just want to
Speaker 2: know about your background. When did you get the basketball bug?
Speaker 2: And then when did you know that you wanted to
Speaker 2: get into coaching. How did that all kind of come about?
Speaker 3: You know, I think just basketball has been a part
Speaker 3: of my life ever since childhood. My father, Craig Peterson,
Speaker 3: referee collegiate basketball for twenty plus years, and so my
Speaker 3: first introduction to Salt Lake City was during the Whack
Speaker 3: Tournament back in nineteen ninety or nineteen ninety one something
Speaker 3: like that, where it was at the Delta Center and
Speaker 3: he was appreciating that and he brought me along to tagalong.
Speaker 3: So basketball has always been kind of a part of
Speaker 3: my growing up. I was always around the game, always
Speaker 3: loved the game. Then it wasn't until after college when
Speaker 3: I went to graduate school at the University of Hawaii
Speaker 3: and I got to work with the legendary Vince Goo
Speaker 3: who is the all time winning his coach at the
Speaker 3: University of Hawaii. But he gave me a chance to
Speaker 3: be a manager slash grad assistant, and it was at
Speaker 3: that point where I thought, man, this is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: A lot of the detail that goes on behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: a lot of the game prep, the practice planning, player development,
Speaker 3: relationship building with the young women, everything. I just kind
Speaker 3: of gravitated towards that right away. And you know, being
Speaker 3: the only show in town in Hawaii, at the University
Speaker 3: of Hawaii, It's just I didn't know that opportunities would
Speaker 3: present themselves, but lo and behold, it did, and I
Speaker 3: was able to be at the right place at the
Speaker 3: right time capitalized on those and you know, fast forward
Speaker 3: twenty three years later and here I am so just
Speaker 3: It's always been a part of my life and grateful
Speaker 3: for the breaks that I did receive along the way.
Speaker 2: I read that your wife, Karen also has coached basketball.
Speaker 1: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Hi? Yes, my wife Karen, my better half. She actually
Speaker 3: played three years at the University of Oregon. Then she
Speaker 3: transured back home to Canada to finish off her playing
Speaker 3: career in Canada, and then she started coaching. That's how
Speaker 3: we met. She was coaching at Sacramento State while I
Speaker 3: was at Idaho State, and then we both worked together
Speaker 3: three years at the University of Idaho. So yeah, she
Speaker 3: totally gets it. She gets the demands and the time
Speaker 3: it takes to be successful at this level. Doesn't always
Speaker 3: like it, but she's understanding about it. And I'm so
Speaker 3: thankful to have her in my life in terms of
Speaker 3: allowing me to pursue my goal of my dreams and
Speaker 3: at the same time allowing the family to have some
Speaker 3: excitement and give them something to be proud about.
Speaker 1: Two basketball coaches as parents.
Speaker 2: I wonder if your daughters wake up to whistles and
Speaker 2: clipboards in the more, what what's that like as a
Speaker 2: partnership with two coaches?
Speaker 3: You know it is, And it's funny. Karen's coached our
Speaker 3: girls junior jazz team. Now they're in the Bantham League
Speaker 3: and she's coaching still our youngest, but she's ready to
Speaker 3: hand them off. Sometimes we just want to be parents
Speaker 3: and cheer on and love up our kids. But yeah,
Speaker 3: our kids don't know how good they have it in
Speaker 3: terms of my wife has a great basketball mind, was
Speaker 3: a great player herself, and so it's just funny they
Speaker 3: still look at us, at mom and dad. So if
Speaker 3: we ever get into the gym and hey, let's work
Speaker 3: on this today, I get the eye roll. I get
Speaker 3: to like, you don't know what you're talking about look
Speaker 3: and it's like, Okay, this is cool. I'm a parent.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: Hey, give me the origin story of your relationship with
Speaker 2: Coach Rob. You know she came on the show a lot.
Speaker 2: She was a good friend of the program, and you
Speaker 2: know you were with her prior to Utah.
Speaker 1: How did you guys connect? How did that come about?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So you know, back when I was that Idaho
Speaker 3: State I actually met Lynn in Tasmania, Australia, when we're
Speaker 3: recruiting at an under eighteen national event down there, and
Speaker 3: I remember that vividly because the gyms have no heat
Speaker 3: and she was freezing her tail off. She had to
Speaker 3: go to the store to buy blankets and gloves and
Speaker 3: all these things. And I'm coming from, you know, working
Speaker 3: at Idaho State up the road in Pocatella. What's cold?
Speaker 3: And she's, you know, coming from Stofton, California, where it's
Speaker 3: not that cold. So I just was like, this is
Speaker 3: not that bad. So I always remembered that, and then
Speaker 3: we've had some common friends that kind of kept us
Speaker 3: in touch. So when she did have an opening on
Speaker 3: her staff at the University of the Pacific, I've always
Speaker 3: respected her from Afar. I was at the University of
Speaker 3: Hawaii at the time and we had just competed in
Speaker 3: the Big West Pacific was leaving for the West Coast Conference,
Speaker 3: and I just I was intrigued about the chance and
Speaker 3: the possibility to join her staff, and unselfishly I wanted
Speaker 3: to learn from one of the best in what they
Speaker 3: were doing offensively, and at the time, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of dribble, drive off and pour out one in things
Speaker 3: that we started to do here at Utah but have
Speaker 3: kind of gone away from a little bit. We still
Speaker 3: have some tendencies that we do run. But it was
Speaker 3: just kind of a great opportunity for me to join
Speaker 3: her staff, learn from her and also bring something of
Speaker 3: value to the table in which I was able to,
Speaker 3: you know, head up the defense at Pacific and kind
Speaker 3: of did the same thing here at Utah. And it's
Speaker 3: just a relationship that you know, we started out as
Speaker 3: you know, working alongside one another, became good friends, and
Speaker 3: now she's one of our family members, her her family,
Speaker 3: it's just they're part of our family. And so excited
Speaker 3: for her and her opportunity. And at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, I get a great opportunity as well, so
Speaker 3: it's a win win for everybody.
Speaker 2: So it really is such a wild industry because I
Speaker 2: believe coach Rob hopped on the show forty eight hours
Speaker 2: before she received the job offer to go to Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and you know, she had received a very well earned
Speaker 2: contract extension through twenty thirty prior to the season. So
Speaker 2: when I got the alert and look, that's that's an
Speaker 2: opportunity you got to take. And I totally understand and
Speaker 2: I'm very thrilled for her because she is She's dynamite,
Speaker 2: she'll be great. But but what was that what was
Speaker 2: that time? What was that timeline? Like for you, Gavin,
Speaker 2: when did you hear the news and what was the
Speaker 2: process that ultimately led to you moving over a couple
Speaker 2: of seats on the bench.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We I found out Sunday morning, the day before
Speaker 3: our McNee state game. And you know, she called me
Speaker 3: into her office and which you know sometimes happens but rarely,
Speaker 3: like it was random. She after practices here, I need
Speaker 3: to talk to you to come to my office. So
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh crap, Well, like what's going on? You know,
Speaker 3: like you just got to start thinking, like I know,
Speaker 3: I didn't do anything, so it ain't me. But she
Speaker 3: sat me down and she goes, Okay, I'm well, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell you it's gonna blow your mind. And it
Speaker 3: really did. So she broke the news to me. I
Speaker 3: immediately stood up off the couch and gave her a
Speaker 3: big hug, and I was like pumped. I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, that's awesome, like WNBA, like professional head
Speaker 3: coach in LA, like that is awesome. And then I
Speaker 3: sat down and I'm like, okay, now what that mean
Speaker 3: for us? Like, are you know? Then there are a
Speaker 3: lot of questions, and so she just basically hinted at
Speaker 3: the possibility of me being able to take over here
Speaker 3: and that our administration wanted to talk with me. And
Speaker 3: so it was a whirlwind of emotions. Excited for her,
Speaker 3: kind of concerned about what the future was going to be,
Speaker 3: not only for myself before our players. And then later
Speaker 3: that afternoon, after meeting with Mark and Charmel from our administration,
Speaker 3: they basically said, hey, you're our guy. There is no
Speaker 3: interim tag. We believe in you. And so it's very humbling,
Speaker 3: very gratifying to know that the hard work and the
Speaker 3: loyalty that I've shown over the course of my career
Speaker 3: went noticed and it was just a proud moment for me.
Speaker 3: And then so we have to go through Monday versus
Speaker 3: McNee State without being able to tell anybody until we
Speaker 3: told our team Tuesday. And the reason we did that
Speaker 3: was we wanted our players to be able to focus
Speaker 3: on the game not be distracted. Also, give us one
Speaker 3: last go at it together. Uh, And it worked out great.
Speaker 3: And I know when you have to enter into contract negotiations,
Speaker 3: you know in the professional level, all those non disclosure
Speaker 3: agreements and all those type of things they have to
Speaker 3: enter into, So I get the sensitivity sensitivity of it all.
Speaker 3: But I think we handled it the best we possibly could, uh,
Speaker 3: and everything came out for the better.
Speaker 2: Gavin Peterson as our guest head coach of the Utah
Speaker 2: women's basketball team off to a great start. I wonder, Gavin,
Speaker 2: as you know in in the industry, as they say
Speaker 2: that it's always a little tenuous when you take over
Speaker 2: for a legend and and coach Rob changed the standard
Speaker 2: around here, right. I mean, we have three straight NCAA appearances,
Speaker 2: we have three straight twenty plus win seasons, we have
Speaker 2: players being drafted in a pro basketball So I wonder
Speaker 2: how much of your stamp you will put on this
Speaker 2: program and how much of just the continuation, you know,
Speaker 2: the old saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 2: If that makes If that makes sense, So just kind
Speaker 2: of walk us through that dynamic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, being alongside her for the
Speaker 3: nine years that she was here, I was given a
Speaker 3: lot of freedom, a lot of responsibility to do things
Speaker 3: that would better our program. With those responsibilities and with
Speaker 3: the leadership that Lynn provided, she you know, without knowing
Speaker 3: and maybe she was intentional about it, but it's prepared
Speaker 3: me for this moment. And so I'm excited to kind
Speaker 3: of continue the legacy that we started her nine years
Speaker 3: ago and have you know, has built into a national
Speaker 3: brand and when you talk about Utah women's basketball, it
Speaker 3: resonates with people, and people immediately start to think about
Speaker 3: our high powered offense. So, yeah, what my stamp is
Speaker 3: going to be, That's the farthest thing from my mind.
Speaker 3: I feel like we have great people in our program,
Speaker 3: from our players to our coaching staff and our support staff,
Speaker 3: and my job is to make this as smooth as
Speaker 3: a transition for everybody and keep the stability of the
Speaker 3: program going in the right direction, and whatever my stamp
Speaker 3: may be, it will organically happen. It's nothing that I'm
Speaker 3: going to be setting out to do intentionally. It's just
Speaker 3: going to happen naturally. And you know, I'll let people
Speaker 3: in the media and the people in the stands figure
Speaker 3: out what that's going to be, because I'm not concerned
Speaker 3: about that at all. The one legacy that I did
Speaker 3: hear from people that they want us to continue is
Speaker 3: dressing up, and so I'll still be in my suits,
Speaker 3: our staff will still be dressing up, and we're going
Speaker 3: to look the part when we take the floor.
Speaker 1: Love it now.
Speaker 2: As you referenced earlier, from what I've read about you,
Speaker 2: you have made your name as a defensive basketball mind.
Speaker 1: Is that fair to say, Gavin?
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny how some of those rumors get started,
Speaker 3: but no I have. I've been given that. But over
Speaker 3: the last few years, we do a lot of basketball
Speaker 3: talk behind the scene offseason, so I'm equally as much
Speaker 3: of an offensive mind as a defensive mind. It's just
Speaker 3: Lynn really trusted me to handle a lot of the
Speaker 3: defensive decisions that have gone on over the last nine seasons.
Speaker 3: But to be honest, our biggest change or our biggest
Speaker 3: jump on defense when we improved, Lynn had a lot
Speaker 3: of hands on in that. And so you know, she's
Speaker 3: selling herself short too if she doesn't give her some
Speaker 3: credit for our defensive improvements over the last three years.
Speaker 2: Sure, And the reason I bring it up just for
Speaker 2: context is I wanted to ask you because you know,
Speaker 2: the thing that always has stood out to me when
Speaker 2: I've watched teams play the Linn coaches. She's clearly, very
Speaker 2: very bright with how you guys execute offensively with your
Speaker 2: spacing and share the ball. And so I wondered if
Speaker 2: if you could kind of explain, and you you just
Speaker 2: did in a way. But you know, as a guy
Speaker 2: who was tasked with helping out on the defensive side,
Speaker 2: combined with what you learned from coach Rob offensively, how
Speaker 2: do you combine those two nolge you know, those two
Speaker 2: pieces of knowledge that you do have to maximize the
Speaker 2: potential of your roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's kind of being consistent with how
Speaker 3: it has been over the last few years. With my
Speaker 3: voice being heard by our players in the gym, I've
Speaker 3: had a lot of people say like, well, how's it
Speaker 3: going to be Now you're going to have to be
Speaker 3: the disciplinarian. Well, ask every one of our players. I've
Speaker 3: done enough disciplinary action or holding them accountable to some
Speaker 3: of the things that we do, so that's nothing new.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of experience with Lynn, both of us.
Speaker 3: I mean, we worked so well together. So like the
Speaker 3: whole good Cop Bad Cop analogy, We've done that really
Speaker 3: well over the course of our twelve years together at
Speaker 3: Pacific in Utah. So I think just staying consistent. I
Speaker 3: think our kids know when I'm gonna you know, if
Speaker 3: I'm being quiet or not calling them out on little
Speaker 3: detailed things, they know something's wrong, and they've pleaded with me,
Speaker 3: do not change. You keep being on us, get on us,
Speaker 3: don't let anything slide. They actually love being pushed to
Speaker 3: reach their potential. And again, I am so fortunate and
Speaker 3: lucky to have this situation unfold in front of me
Speaker 3: because I know every one of our players. I know
Speaker 3: their families, we've recruited them here, I know our coaching staff,
Speaker 3: I know our administration. So it's really I won the
Speaker 3: lottery in moving over a seat, and I'm just so
Speaker 3: thankful and humbled and honored for that. Off community so
Speaker 3: I wanted.
Speaker 2: To get your take on the dynamic of how collegiate
Speaker 2: athletics has changed over the past few years. You know,
Speaker 2: we talk about it a lot with you know, the
Speaker 2: football side of things, and how some really high powered,
Speaker 2: powerful coaches have tapped out of really high paying good
Speaker 2: jobs because they don't want to deal with the new
Speaker 2: reality of what college football or college basketball has become.
Speaker 2: You're a new head coach, Gavin, but you're not a
Speaker 2: new coach. You've been doing this two decades, so as
Speaker 2: you've watched the changes from your prism in your kind
Speaker 2: of piece of real estate, how have the changes in
Speaker 2: collegiate athletics affected women's hoops?
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's a great time to be
Speaker 3: women's basketball player at the Division IE level. I think
Speaker 3: a lot of opportunities are opening up for people, not
Speaker 3: always just within the lines, but outside of the lines
Speaker 3: with nil and all these good things that come with it,
Speaker 3: revenue sharing coming down the road next year. So it's
Speaker 3: a great time to be a part of women's basketball
Speaker 3: as it continues its trajectory. With that said, though, it
Speaker 3: really has become a lot more complicated and in the
Speaker 3: recruiting process, it becomes a little more complicated as well.
Speaker 3: Our strategy, our foundation, and our principles with recruiting. It's
Speaker 3: not going to change. We want recruits to pick the
Speaker 3: University of Utah for our program, our university, our city,
Speaker 3: everything about the program. What you get on top of
Speaker 3: that with NIL and revenue sharing, that's just the icing
Speaker 3: on the cake. And you know, I've got to get
Speaker 3: updated with a lot of the you know, rulings that
Speaker 3: are happening, you know at the court levels what that
Speaker 3: means for us as we move forward. So when I
Speaker 3: do get in front of recruits, I can be as
Speaker 3: clear and you know, to the point and be truthful
Speaker 3: with what I'm telling them because you hear a lot
Speaker 3: of stories about people being promised promised X amount of dollars,
Speaker 3: which is not the case because nobody knows what that's
Speaker 3: going to look like yet. But yeah, it has changed,
Speaker 3: and you know, I love what I do, so I'm
Speaker 3: going to change with it, and I'm going to try
Speaker 3: to do my best to make sure that Utah women's
Speaker 3: basketball stays nationally recognized and stays relevant as a perennial
Speaker 3: Top twenty five program.
Speaker 2: So Craig and his men's basketball team with the jump
Speaker 2: to the Big twelve. I mean, the Big twelve on
Speaker 2: the men's side is just a nightmare, and it's good
Speaker 2: on the women's side too, Gavin, But the PAC twelve
Speaker 2: for the women's basketball side of things, I think was
Speaker 2: a little bit deeper and probably overall in my opinion,
Speaker 2: better than the Big twelve on the women's side. So
Speaker 2: it's not going to affect you as much, at least
Speaker 2: from the outside looking in. But I did want to
Speaker 2: get your take on how changing conferences has affected the
Speaker 2: program and the challenge that you now have in front
Speaker 2: of you with this new Big twelve slate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's affected us too much. Now,
Speaker 3: you know, our recruiting has stayed the same. We recruited
Speaker 3: a lot of Midwest to begin with. I think that
Speaker 3: just helps solidify our name recognition in those states. So
Speaker 3: I'm excited about that to continue to recruit that area.
Speaker 3: And then it's kind of an exciting time. It's new.
Speaker 3: There are new cities, college towns that we're going to
Speaker 3: have to fly into and get acclimated with. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the competition is the competition, and we have some really
Speaker 3: good teams right now in the top twenty five, and
Speaker 3: it's cool to be not mentioned because I think that
Speaker 3: puts a chip on our shoulder and keeps us hungry
Speaker 3: and motivated to keep climbing that mountain. And you know,
Speaker 3: we were just in the Cayman Islands and TCU is there,
Speaker 3: so we got a good close look at them, and
Speaker 3: they're a great team. I think they play South Carolina
Speaker 3: either tonight or tomorrow, but you know, they're still undefeated.
Speaker 3: We played Baylor a year ago. We lost I think
Speaker 3: by seven points early in the year to them, So
Speaker 3: you know, we're familiar with and we're excited to face
Speaker 3: some of those top twenty five teams and they're going
Speaker 3: to be great opportunities for us to get that you know,
Speaker 3: key victory, key win on our resume come postseason time.
Speaker 3: So again, great opportunity in front of us once we
Speaker 3: get to Big twelve, Big twelve play, we're going to
Speaker 3: be excited about it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was really cool to hear Kennedy last
Speaker 2: night talk about, you know, growing up in Utah going
Speaker 2: to jazz games and having the opportunity to play at
Speaker 2: the Delta Center. You guys, you stopped Utah stay pretty good,
Speaker 2: but what was that experience like for you guys to
Speaker 2: go down into an NBA arena, play in front of
Speaker 2: your fans and come out with a win.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was awesome. I was like on cloud nine
Speaker 3: from the morning I woke like I woke up at
Speaker 3: about five thirty six am. I'm like, I'm ready, let's go.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't have to get motivated to get on
Speaker 3: my pelotone bike and ride like I was just jack.
Speaker 3: Then we got to shoot around and I was walking around.
Speaker 3: It's just like, man, two months ago, I was at
Speaker 3: a UFC fight right here. I was a huge Bulls
Speaker 3: fan when Michael Jordan was playing growing up in Honoluluoy
Speaker 3: It's like, this is the bucket he made. Like I
Speaker 3: just was. I was in heaven, just taking it all in.
Speaker 3: I've been to jazz games, I've been to many other events,
Speaker 3: concerts and whatnot in that arena. So it was really cool.
Speaker 3: And then before the game, you know, I lost eyes
Speaker 3: with Kennedy and I'm like, how cool, man, You're the
Speaker 3: homegrown kid from Utah and you get to play here
Speaker 3: in the Delta Center. So take it all in, have
Speaker 3: fun and just try to stay as focused as possible
Speaker 3: while having fun. And they really did. They came out,
Speaker 3: locked me into the game plan, and they sustained that
Speaker 3: for forty minutes, which is not always easy to do
Speaker 3: when you're up big. But I'm so proud of our
Speaker 3: players the way they did that, and again, cool experience.
Speaker 3: I'm telling anybody who give me a listen, I think
Speaker 3: that's something we need to do annually and would love
Speaker 3: the opportunity to do that to promote women's basketball and
Speaker 3: women's sports here in the state of Utah.
Speaker 2: Well, Gavin, I appreciate the time, congrats on the promotion.
Speaker 1: Off to a great start.
Speaker 2: We always have space for you here, so if you
Speaker 2: want to hop back on, please let us know and
Speaker 2: best of luck the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Okay, awesome.
Speaker 3: I look forward to the next time. Always appreciated, guys.
Speaker 2: And go you all right, Gavin Peterson, head coach of
Speaker 2: the Utah women's basketball team.
Speaker 1: They're off to a seven and two start there.
Speaker 2: L's came at Northwestern and then at home against Mississippi State,
Speaker 2: but two very close games.
Speaker 1: It's a good team.
Speaker 2: They beat Notre Dame, the number three team in the country,
Speaker 2: smoked Utah State last night at the Delta Center. Back
Speaker 2: in action on Sunday, against Princeton at not rice cycles.
Speaker 1: That would be different at the Huntsman Center.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, let's fill rice cycles for the
Speaker 2: Utah women's basketball team. But Princeton is the opponent coming
Speaker 2: up Big twelve on the women's side is good, but
Speaker 2: not as not as much of a gauntlet as Craig
Speaker 2: and his men are going to be facing. And of
Speaker 2: course cheering for Gavin and also cheering for a good
Speaker 2: friend of the show, Lynn Roberts and her new gig
Speaker 2: at Los Angeles as the head coach of the Sparks.
Speaker 1: So good stuff there.
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