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Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Championship Sunday, March 10, 2019 Kim Mulkey Q. Juicy, they came out pretty hot. They hit like 7 Kalani Brown of their first 11 shots, and in my mind, Kim may see it differently, looked like y'all were playing good defense, hand in the face. When they're doing that, Juicy Landrum is there any panic, any sense of nervousness? JUICY LANDRUM: I wouldn't say nervousness. She Lauren Cox said that in the huddle, that they were pretty hot. But Baylor Lady Bears our hands were up. But they're pretty good shooters. Baylor 88, Kansas State 60 Q. Lauren, 8 assists. I would imagine most of them were to Kalani, but were you looking for that? Is THE MODERATOR: We are now joined by the Baylor that anything that you really try to pad your assist Bears head coach, Kim Mulkey, and her student- total? athletes, Lauren Cox, Juicy Landrum and Kalani LAUREN COX: I think it's just something that happens. Brown. Coach, would you like to make a comment I'm not like -- when I catch the ball I'm not like, I'm about the opening? going to do that and then I'm going to pass it to Kalani. I would turn to the middle and she would have the lob KIM MULKEY: I don't. and he with just work really well together, kind of have that unspoken connection. I know where she wants Q. Lauren, you had a double-double before the half. the ball. Tell me why were you so aggressive and able to make those stats before the half? Q. Kalani, can you guys feel when a team starts to LAUREN COX: I was trying to be aggressive going to wear down a little bit? The opponent? Because it the basket and my shots weren't falling, but the refs seemed like at second quarter, you guys started to were calling fouls and I was knocking down my free pull away and impose your will a little bit. throws and being aggressive on the glass and KALANI BROWN: In a way, yes. I just think when attacking it. somebody hits a big shot or we have a great player and one we just took the momentum and ran with it. When Q. Tomorrow is the big day, Finals. How are you we play with energy we play a lot better. guys feeling? What are the emotions? What's going on in your mind? Tell me. THE MODERATOR: Ladies, congratulations. Thank KALANI BROWN: I'm pumped. I'm excited, playing for you. Coach? another championship. That never gets old. I'm excited for our freshmen to experience a big game like KIM MULKEY: Let's go! Hit me with your best shot! this. They haven't had one in a long time. Q. Kim, like I said, obviously they did come out Q. Kalani, you played a very, very good basketball hittin' shots with hands right in their face. What team today and you drilled them in just about every was just kind of the message in the timeout? category. How many games have you guys played KIM MULKEY: Weather the storm. You keep playing where you played better than this, if any, this year? good defense. You keep running the floor, shooters will KALANI BROWN: I don't know. I think we've playing fatigue. Usually you lose your legs first when you good basketball all together. When we're all in sync shoot a lot of perimeter shots like that. Just stay with like that I can think of a few games, the UConn game your defense and weather the storm. They were for example, I can't name 'em, Texas at home, thank shooting 60% at one point in that first quarter and if you. It's just a few of them, but we've been playing you look at the stat sheet which is one of the things I good basketball. So I think most of our games have circled, they went from 44% in the first quarter to 18 in been good games. the second. That's defense. We're not doing anything different in the second quarter. There was nothing Rev #1 by #189 at 2019-03-10 21:18:00 GMT page 1 of 2 different defensively. It was just continue to guard 'em and she made everybody around her better. Freshmen like you've been taught to do. came in, she would give them easy shoots. She would always defend the player where she could be the one Q. Coach, congratulations on the win. This team helping the most. I think Lauren, she was so close to a has been aggressive throughout the tournament, triple-double. I think she was looking for that when I throughout the season. What's the key to put her back in I told her shoot the ball. You're passing maintaining that offense? Do you guys practice up layups to get an assist. Score the ball. She just differently for each team, or is it the same game kinda took over the game when Kalani was out and plan? then Kalani comes in, plays, what, 20 minutes and look KIM MULKEY: Back-to-back games is very difficult -- in at her stats. fact we didn't have a shootaround or anything today. When you come to conference tournaments you get Q. Kim, there was a lot of discussion yesterday about forty minutes before your first game and now after the TCU game and the West Virginia game, tomorrow we will get some time on the floor. You don't some pundits have said that maybe the Big 12 may really go through anything extremely hard. You walk get as few as three teams in the tournament. What through things. You don't change a whole lot this time do you think about K-State, West Virginia, TCU and of year, you tweak a few things. what are their chances? What do you believe they should do with them? I've got a basketball team that can score a lot of points. KIM MULKEY: I'm going to be partial and I'm going to I've got a basketball team that's got a lot of depth. The always promote the Big 12. The second place team in more that I can get them on the floor, the better we will the SEC was who? See, y'all don't even know. be down through these playoffs. I have to keep coachin' them. I had 5 new ones on the floor and I Q. South Carolina. wasn't real pleased and I took 'em off the floor for a few KIM MULKEY: Thank you. You're not even a media minutes. I have to coach them like I do everybody else. guy. That's why I love you. You know more than they If I don't get their attention and let you know why you do. Here is my point. Did Baylor play South Carolina came out of the game you're going to get your on their home floor earlier in the year? Look at that opportunity to go back in and they did. We're going to score and then look at the scores of Baylor and who see these in the playoffs, very physical. They make they played in this league and see if they were tougher you think. They are 1-3-1, which is really a 2-3. Made games. Those are things I would compare things to. the new ones think a lot and that's why they created a I'm going to always promote the Big 12. I know how lot of turnovers, but put them in a position to see that. tough it is. The styles are so different. Playing West Virginia is different than playing Iowa State or Kansas Q. Once you find out who you guys will play State. Our league is as good as anybody. Now, we against tomorrow, what's the strategy? Do you don't have big numbers like the SEC, what, 16, I don't start looking through film again? know how many is even in the SEC, but you got some KIM MULKEY: We will watch half of this game if not good teams that I hope they don't leave out. more. I would say probably a half. We will go back and we will go to dinner and then after dinner we will THE MODERATOR: Thanks, Coach. get in the film room. We will go through a scouting report and go to bed. Then tomorrow we will come and walk through and shoot a little bit. I don't know how much we will shoot. How we're going to guard 'em. Most of the time when we do things it's usually more defense than offense. I know where we can score points. But it's two different kind of styles, two totally different teams that you would play. We've played both twice and we will be prepared for either one. Q. Kim, Lauren struggled with her shot early. You talk about don't let your offense affect your other play. She kept playing defense but she finishes with 15 rebounds, 8 assists, just the way that she played today. KIM MULKEY: She had to because Kalani was in foul trouble. Did Kalani play maybe a minute in the second quarter? I don't know. But Cox took over down there Rev #1 by #189 at 2019-03-10 21:18:00 GMT page 2 of 2 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Championship Sunday, March 10, 2019 Jeff Mittie being the team that's a little longer and a little bit taller on average than everybody else and I think that was a Peyton Williams big challenge to try and move the ball against length.