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Interview With Notre Dame Women's Basketball Grad Transfer Forward Liatu King

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Irish Breakdown

Sports, Football, Big Ten, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Notre Dame

4.5 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Irish Breakdown has an exclusive interview with Notre Dame women's basketball graduate transfer Liatu King. The forward averaged 18.7 points and 10.4 rebounds at Pittsburgh last season but she is Irish now. King joins Sean Stires to discuss her decision to transfer to Notre Dame, Irish head coach Niele Ivey, Irish point guard Olivia Miles' passing, playing tackle football with the boys growing up and much more! Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We are joined by one of the newest members of the Notre Dame women's basketball team.

0:19.6

Leotou King, who transferred to Notre Dame,

0:21.9

of course, from Pittsburgh this off season. She was the ACC's most improved player and first

0:28.8

team all ACC last year. Thanks for doing this today, Leah, too. How are you? I'm good. And yourself? I can't

0:36.6

complain yourself. I'm doing pretty good. I was just looking And yourself? I can't complain yourself.

0:39.4

I'm doing pretty good.

0:40.5

I was just looking outside.

0:41.3

I don't know about you.

0:44.0

It looks like we're about to get more rain.

0:47.9

That's kind of the thing this last few weeks, it seems like, anyway, in this area.

0:51.0

But, you know, I guess things stay green anyway.

0:51.7

Right.

0:57.8

You know, I wanted to ask you, first of all, I heard that you played football growing up. Is that right? That is correct. I did. Like up until, like, eighth grade,

1:06.0

so up until middle school, I was definitely playing tackle football. Yeah.

1:12.4

Were you, it was, okay, so not just, not just like football, but like,

1:16.8

full-blown, like with the guys kind of football?

1:19.9

Yeah, helmet and shoulder pads, all that stuff.

1:22.2

Man, so were you, were you into, were you into it enough that, you know, like if there had been a path to go to college and play football, that would have been something that maybe would have interested you?

1:33.3

I probably, no, because like I said, I stopped in middle school.

1:36.8

But, I mean, I was pretty decent.

1:39.1

But I knew, like, basketball is what I really wanted to do.

1:41.9

And when I got to high school, because I played multiple sports in middle school,

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