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and welcome in our first guest of the program we have.
He is a BYU TV sideline reporter. He does the
Cougar Sports Ander updates every day. We got the wonderful
Cam Clark on the line. Cam. How are we doing today? Brother?
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, doing pretty good. Glad to join
you guys.
Speaker 1: Of course you were there last night, saw you in action,
caught some pictures of you. Sorry to spy on you
a little bit but I couldn't I couldn't help, but
see how gorgeous you were in the in the suits
and doing your job. BYU women's basketball defeated Missoo last night.
What did you see from the lady Koogs. I believe
this is the only team in the state that's still
playing basketball. But they they dubbed Missouri last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a blowout in the first quarter, twenty
eight to seven at one point in the first quarter eight.
Missouri didn't do much to keep it close early on,
and they clawed their way back later on, but b
YU pulled away early in that first quarter. Cambrie Barbara
and Delaney gibb were a large part of that, and
listening into the Son of the Huddles, one of the
big takeaways just from that first quarter alone is Missouri
their shot selection was just not great shots. Lee Kamard
has talked about how he he prides himself in their
defensive ability, and Missouri knew that coming in, and they
just bought the pressure on Missouri and Missouri couldn't find
any good shots and they were leaving BYU wide open.
So that's why they jumped out twenty eight to seven early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they jumped out really fast. The threes were falling,
and it's interesting because it looked like Missouri didn't want
to let by You play in transition and once once
they put up a shot, they were just getting back.
But Byu still was able to play and transition the
way they won it and blew the doors off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of that too. You talked about, you know,
just get a shot and head back, you know, I
think even on the offensive side of the ball, b
Yu was getting a ton of offensive rebounds. Cambrie Barber
came away with three offensive rebounds in that game. And
you may not think or you might not think that's
a whole lot, but for her, she grabbed a double
double eleven points, twelve rebounds and doing some of the
prep for that game. She's in the ninety seventh percentile
in the nation and offensive rebounding opportunities meaning you know,
the available offensive rebounds when she's in the area. She's
one of the scrappy players that's going to go in there,
grab the offense or grab the offensive rebound and kick
it back out. And you saw a large part of
Byu a lot of second chance points coming because of
Barber and GiB even got an a couple offense rebounds,
but only gotten offense rebound late in the game. Everything
was just working on all cylinders for BYU. And as
far as the transition goes, BYU averages over ten steals
a game. You know, it's a lot of back and
forth in the Big twelve, lots of turnovers from both teams,
but it was really nice to see BYU won not
turn the ball over much themselves. And two, like you said,
get there quick, a lot of three pointers went up
Glenn and gibb career high seven three pointers in that game.
She was money from deep.
Speaker 1: She's ridiculous. She hits a thousand thousand points in her
career in fifty seven games. Cam describe what was the
atmosphere like for her. It feels like it was a
weight lifted off of her shoulders to finally have that achieved.
It seems like that was in the back of her
mind coming into the game because you're a player, you know,
but they never want to focus on it. They want
to win the contest. But it seemed like after I
don't think she was going out for that, you know,
I think she just played a great game because she's
a phenomenal player, but it seemed like that was in
the back of her mind. It kind of could have
been poking the poken, poking her a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she knew kind of at least, you know,
maybe not going into the game. Maybe at halftime when
she had sixteen points. I believe at the half she
probably had the idea of, hey, I'm pretty close to
a thousand. When I was talking with her after the game,
you know, she she didn't sound surprised. I asked a
question about her seven three pointers, and she had no
idea that she'd made that many. So with not having
as big of a reaction when asking her about her
thousand points, makes me think that she probably had a
little bit of a little bit of an idea just
on what the you know, what the occasion was. Again,
those seven three pointers helped her a lot, and it
was just a great atmosphere last night. Still not a
whole lot of people in the crowd. I know coaches
are hoping that you know, here coming up at least
for this next game, that they'll be able to get
a bigger audience there in the Marriott Center as they
take on Stanford, and we'll get to their preview a
little bit later, but it was it was just exciting
to see how much energy was able to be there
with how empty almost the Mariant Center looked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was crazy because the vibe of when I
was sitting there, you know in the media section, is
still felt like when Bolli was hitting threes, you could
hear people. You know, obviously Maszoo kids behind me have
missed the free throw. So it seemed that way for
not a lot of people. But there's a lot of
the big dogs in attendants. When I said big dogs,
I mean obviously the BYU athletics personnel or you know,
those of the University Bron Santiago court side saw him.
A VP of Advanced Mkeith Vorkin and his wife were there.
Tom Homo and Lorie Homo were there. Obviously President Shane
Reese was in attendance. You had Hadeen Boop and John
Lennehant court side. Robert Wright the Third and Tyler Russ
and Xavion Staton were present as well. A lot of
people were in attendance to watch this game. It felt
like at least at the court side level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a large part to what Leak
of Alreadys done with the program this He's at twenty
four wins now on the season, ties Judkins for the
most in the first year in the UYU history. And
Lee's done such a great job with this team, turning
it around for a team that really struggled last year
and even the year before that. They had a hard
time adjusting to play in the Big twelve. You know,
they were comfortable with the play in the WCC when
they were playing teams like LMU and Saint Mary's, Gonzaga Portland,
but that transition to the Big twelve was really hard
for this team. They seemed to take a little bit
longer to adjust than the rest of Cougar Sports. And
so this transition now with Lee Kamar here in year
one has been incredible. He's pushed the girls, Delaney said
in her postgame interview last night, He's been very personal
with them. Impersonable, I guess is a better word. That
he gets to know them. They're not just his players,
but they're you know, they're they're a team, including himself.
And so Lee's done a great job at Their offense
is very fast paced and they dropped ninety points last night,
and granted, Missouri's defense is definitely not a strong suit,
ranking two hundred and forty eight out of the three
fifty five Division One teams, but still to put up
ninety three points knocked out fourteen to threes last night,
shooting forty one percent from the three point line. If
you're gonna do that, you're gonna win ball games.
Speaker 1: You are gonna win ball games. They're gonna need that
as they can go deeper into the w B I T.
We got Cam Clark on the line with us A
by TV Sialine reporter and he does the Cougar Sports
and our updates here for us FED ESP and the
fan fan excuse me, Cam? How far can this team go?
Can Lee take this team? You mentioned Cambri Barber, they
call her along with Brinley Canada Twins. I feel like
you're gonna need those two like to be the X factor.
You know what you're gonna get out of Banali. You
know what you're gonna get Olivia Hamlin. Delaney's always on
the scout and report regardless of what it is. But
I feel like it's those other two that really can carry,
not carry, but really helped by you add to the
stat sheet if they want to really go out, go
out to win this thing.
Speaker 2: You know. Cambrian Barber is an interesting story. She was
injured at the very beginning of the year. They mentioned
that she could barely get through, you know, and you know,
just a couple practices earlier in the year without having
to to take arrest again. But I loved watching and
even I'm blinking on her name. Cannon, Britley Cannon, She
like both of them, were on the boards all night long.
Britley Cannon at one point was on triple double watch.
And so it's it's a fun team to watch, especially
those two. But I think the X factor to this
team is their centers, Laura Rocal and bullet Yusa. They're
sixteen and oh when either one of those two score
ten plus when they're double. When they're centers in double figures,
b Yu has won every single game. I think. I
think it draws the defense all of a sudden, The
defense has to start looking down low, realizing that that's,
you know, a viable option to kick it down low.
And you know, they're not drawing up you know, most
teams aren't drawing up plays for their center to score
but when those opportunities come, Rocal's top five in BYU
history and single season field goal percentage, so she's gonna
make it when she gets the ball down low. Bullet
Yusuff has been incredible. She's, in my opinion, one of
the most one of the more what am I trying
to say, one of the most improved players on this
team from beginning of the year to now. Just as
a freshman watching her, she really struggled to even just
with the fundamentals at the beginning of the year to
now where she's star coming off the bench, she can
provide valuable minutes. She had six rebounds last night, two blocks,
and only kept it to three fouls, which has been
a struggle for her and Rocal with only two fouls
as well last night, they stayed in the game while
they only combined for ten points for two of them.
Like I mentioned earlier, you get one of them to
ten plus buys won every single game this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a good stat and they're gonna need
that in a play from those because you said, you said,
you know they're sinners. Well, they're about to play a
team that has won a national championship in the last
five years that has been there. They have a team
that you know, you think of Cameron Brian. You go
back to that like there's a there's a lot of
talent that's come through Stanford that's played. This is a
team that's kind of on it down here, right. They
were eight and ten in conference, you know, twenty one.
I think in like thirteen or fourteen. Overall, not a
bad basketball team they have. You know, they're about five
hundred on the road. But give us the scout on
report on this team. I feel like the bigs are
gonna be I feel like they're top heavy. I could
be wrong in that assessment. What has your your preparation
told you about who the Stanford women's about excuse me,
Stanford women's basketball team is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you mentioned, you know, a national championship within
the last five years, you think of Cameron bring This
team's a lot different than than those teams. And I
just mentioned that they no longer have Tara Vanderveer at
the head, one of the all times grangious coaches in
all of college basketball. She retired after the twenty twenty
four season. But Kate pay their head coach, has been
with the team. You know since two thousand and seven
in an assistant coaching role. They promoted her after vander
Beer retired. She was player on the team under Vanderveer
and from ninety one to ninety five, and so it's
not like the program changed a whole lot. But obviously
when you lose a head coach like Terra van Derverer,
who's one of, if not the greatest coaches in women's
basketball history, you know there's there's gonna be a bit
of a drop off. And that's what you've seen from
them over these last two years. You know, they're not
quite as strong moving from the PAC twelve And it's
still shocking to me that they're in the ACC. With
all the travel that they have to play, especially with
basketball where you're playing multiple games a week, that's got
to be tough just on the wear and tear, and
so it's tough just to get in a rhythm when
you're traveling that much. But their most recent game against Quinnipec,
they had six players in double figures, and so they're
a team that they may not have one big start,
but they have lots of girls who can get in.
You know, they want that game by twelve and lots
of different players can make a difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely do. I mean Courtney Ogden can light
it up. You know, the junior from Atlanta, Georgia. There's
a bunch of people, Chloe Clardy like, they got a
bunch of girls. I think they got what one, two, three, four, five,
six players that come in average in above ten. So
this is gonna be a good test. This is a
good test. You have to wonder cam if they are
able to get Stanford and go to the semi final,
can they win this whole thing like this? I think
this is gonna be their biggest test, not just of
the tournament, it's one of the seasons. Just when you
think of the history, what do they need to do?
What's the keys to the game to be able to
get a victory on Thursday?
Speaker 2: I think a lot of it's gonna come again from
the defensive side of the ball. Stanfords can score, all right.
They've proven that they are averaging a similar not of
points per game as Missouri. Who we know has you know,
it didn't almost it didn't look like it a lot
last night, but they got a killer offense. Stanford's got
another one as well. You have player coming off a
career high and alex Eschmeier their center who's in there
at six five, so a little bit taller, and some
of the players BYU has faced so far this year.
So you're going to have to watch out for number
four again, that's Alexander Eschmeier. She played twenty six minutes
last game, eighteen points, only grab five rebounds though, but
she was six for seven from the field, two for
three from three point land. So they can stretch out.
They've got bigs that can stretch out the floor and
hit those threes. And so with Stanford, really it's just
going to be how much can you limit They're almost
the spread of the ball right if you can. If
one person goes off, you know that's not the end
of the world. But you have to be sound defensively.
You have to be able to know who you're guarding,
whether you're a man or zone, be able to make
sure that multiple players aren't going.
Speaker 1: Off, make sure the scouter reports locked in. Hopefully we're
able to talk with VAU Women's assistant Paisley Johnson as well.
Cam You've giving us a great scouter report and a
recap of the game before we let you go. What's
the best way We and the listeners can support you
what you do and how you do it. Man.
Speaker 2: We Yeah, I'm kind of new to this whole business,
so it's been a lot of fun. But you can
follow me on X Clark Cam twenty seven. I think
Lenny double check. I changed it recently. I used to
be BYU work stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta change that.
Speaker 2: Changed it recently and so yeah, it's Clark Cam twenty
seven on X. Can follow me. I'll be doing sideline
again on Thursday for the ESPN Plus broadcast. So it's
been an exciting time. I appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 1: Of course you can check them out at Clarkkam twenty
seven on X. He also does all the Cougar Sports
and O updates that you can hear play throughout our
show from two to six pm, and he's going to
be doing sideline again Thursday, March twenty six. BYU Women's
basketball take on number two seeded Stanford in the WBIT
tip off set for seven pm Mountain daylight time at
the Mayor out Center. CAM. Thanks for your time today.
By Women's basketball advances to the semi final. We might
have to hit you up and have you back on.
Speaker 2: I was good, look forward to it.
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll let you go. That was Cam Clark.
That was a little college basketball segment. No, we didn't
have an opportunity to be able to discuss BYU. But
Lee Kamard want to highlight lead does a great job.
Fantastic job with this program. They've come a long way.
I think the biggest thing about Lee's retention and the relationships,
Like Cam says, you don't retain all these players if
you don't have a relationship. And I know there was
always some skepticism about the higher in the beginning, but
I'm gonna say it right now. I was always a fan.
I thought this was the right move. He's great, he's
cut his time and look, it was the right decision.
Lee Kamar was the right high for BAU women's basketball.
And it's playing out well and you hope that they're
able to make a deep run and they get Stanford
and go to the semi final head to Witchita. That's
gonna make some national headlines, I believe for sure. Let's
take a quick time out. Let's get into a quick
Cougar Insider report on the flip before we welcome in
Matt Brown of extra points in our four o'clock hour
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