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Tuesdays, middle of the 8 o'clock hour reserved for our friend, Michigan women's basketball coach Kim Barnes-Rico Tuesdays with KBA. And she joins us right now. Kim, good morning. How are you? Good morning, Sam. Good morning, Ira. I'm doing well. I'm back on my pickleball game. There you go. Shout out to the pickleball crew. I know they love it. Would you give them some shot in the morning, Kim? So were you good today? You're off injured reserve, so how was it being back?

Were you on your game or were you rusty?

A little rusty, a little rusty for sure, but I ended on a win.

So it's always good.

I have a good taste heading into the office for practice.

Yeah, that's outstanding.

And so, you know, last two games, wins propel you into your Thursday matchup with IU.

But I want to reflect for a moment at least on the game on MLK Day, nationally televised on Fox.

And it was, it was it.

I mean, this was what you want a matchup of top 10 teams to be.

It was an outstanding game, but one that you came up just short in, Kim, despite having

opportunities.

To me, it was a, I mean, boy, it was the start.

But the second half, you guys came on and really, really came on and made it, obviously, a nail-biter game.

Yeah, they got off to a really hot start.

They have a transfer from Tennessee, a New Jersey kid that was home, a six-four shooter,

and she knocked down some shots early.

They made some really, really challenging shots at the end of the shot clock, and they forced

us into turnovers early. It took us a minute to settle for sure. And then we came storming back

in the third and fourth quarter, and we had a chance. I mean, we were down too. We got an open

three and we had a chance to take the lead with under a minute to go and we missed it. But just

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