Junior guard Ellie Brueggemann joins us on the podcast. She discusses academics, career plans, balancing athletic and academics. She also talks about the 2025 Thanksgiving trip to Hawaii.

Coach Eagan talking about in-season recruiting and upcoming games against SEMO and UT-Martin.

Coach Eagan talks about the challenges of a long college basketball season with some exceptional wisdom. We also look at recent games including the January 6th game at SIU-Edwardsville and the press-breaking success her team has had.

We also revisit her focus on 'fresh legs' for her players as the season progresses. To date, none of the LU players has logged even 30 minutes per game on average.

Coach also discusses the long-term potential for players Anna McCarn and Valerie Norwood; along with how Brooke Coffey and Ellie Brueggemann can 'take it to the next level'.

This Saturday the University of Arkansas Little Rock comes to St. Charles for a 1:00 p.m. start.

Coach Eagan talks about 2 sets of games in consecutive 10-day periods in the past month. Her team made the long trip to Hawaii to play 3 games in 3 days and then made a tough trip to Drake University (IA). Following that came a period of games again Top 20 Iowa and 2 OVC games against Western Illinois and Eastern Illinois.

She talks about Gracie Kelsey's growth and development that we witnessed during the season so far, and how unique it was that 13 players scored for LU against EIU on Sunday.

Amy also talks about post-holiday conditioning for her players.

Finally, Coach Eagan discusses the main differences in teams and talent in DI. She uses the Iowa State-Iowa game, the LU-Iowa game, and last weekend's Iowa-UConn game. She offers an interesting take on talent and teams.