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She's the head coach, women's head basketball coach at Iowa.

Lisa Bluter and her 24th season is the Hawkeyes head coach.

Kind enough to join us.

Coach, how much sleep last night?

Not a lot, and that's okay with me

the voice sounds like uh you you were coaching that's a coach's voice right there

yeah it's a coach's voice in april for sure a little gravely uh but that's okay it's it's working

and that's all it matters what did you learn personally from the loss last year in the title game to LSU?

You know, I really learned what I learned the most about being in the final four last year

and being in that game was the amount of, this is going to sound, like the amount of rest that you need.

It's just like it's so tiring going through this process in the

in the sweet 16 to the lead eight to the final four. It's extremely exhausting and just making sure

that we spend less time on X's and O's and more time on recovery and rest. Well, that's what I marvel at

that you see these scores. You know, it's Kobe, it's Alan Iverson.

Every night they have to go out there and have more energy than the opposition.

And that's another thing that amazes me about Caitlin.

She doesn't come out of the game and you're playing at a really fast pace.

How do you kind of coach her so she's not her own worst enemy?

Well, you know, we play like that all the time. And it's not like we just started playing like

that now. We've been playing like that for years. And that's her style. She loves it. She's

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