Tomekia Reed On The SWAC

Jackson State head women's basketball coach Tomekia Reed talks about the competitiveness of the SWAC conference.

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00:00 I think our conference is at a great competitive place right now.

00:05 A lot of our coaches are bringing in junior college players.

00:08 A lot of our coaches are now bringing in transfer quarter players,

00:12 which is giving us a lot of experience on the floor.

00:15 And it's making us extremely competitive in our postseason,

00:19 I mean our preseason play out of conference.

00:22 And when you think about our conference,

00:25 people should know that we have coaches who can coach.

00:28 We have coaches who our players work extremely hard for.

00:32 And it's a new day, our SWAG conference is making great strides.

00:40 We have a lot of our teams are rated higher in the APR and

00:45 the national, let me take that back.

00:48 Our teams are rated higher in the net rankings.

00:53 And so we're just really pumped up about where we are in terms of moving up that

00:58 line because when you get those higher rankings,

01:01 that tells you that our conference is extremely competitive.

01:04 We're no pushover.

01:06 I think our coaches are all on track and

01:09 they understand what it's gonna take for us to get that national publicity.

01:13 And so our teams are not pushovers.

01:15 So I'm just really excited about where we are as a conference.