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JANE SELVIG: There's
a generation of women

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that didn't have any opportunity
to play sports.

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There was no such thing.

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SANDY SELVIG SULLIVAN:
My oldest sister
was real athletic,

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and she didn't
get to play basketball.

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Women mostly had the option
of being a nurse,
a teacher or a wife.

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ANITA NOVAK SELVIG:
In seventh grade,
I had to play boys' basketball

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because we didn't have
a girls' team at the time.

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Women's basketball
was not even thought of,
probably as a sport.

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COMMENTATOR: And introducing,
from the University of Montana,
Lady Griz, Robin Selvig...

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LUCY FRANCE: Rob Selvig
was a pioneer
in providing opportunities

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for women
to participate in athletics.

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Women's sports
were not as prominent,

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but boy,
the Lady Griz were prominent.

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STACEY EDWARDS:
The expectations
of Coach Selvig

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were the same expectations
that were expected
of the men that were playing.

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TRICIA BADER BINFORD:
Looking at Robin's record,

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it's like inventing something
for the first time.

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He did something
that had not been done.

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Rob reaching 865 wins
is not only astounding,

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it's almost unbelievable.

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COLLEEN McNALLY STONE:
A lot of teams
underestimated us,

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not even knowing
where Missoula, Montana was.

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They would say that,
you know, that you had
to look us up on the map.

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JULI ECKMANN: Oftentimes,
they thought we were
a cheerleading squad.

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No, girls' basketball team.
[CHUCKLES]

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You've got to understand
that women's basketball
in a lot of places,

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you know, they'll get
two or three hundred people
to their games.

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Now you go to Montana
and play the Lady Griz

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and guess what,
you're playing in front
of thousands,

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and they're right on top of you.

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KRISTA REDPATH PYRON:    I was
part of a tradition that took
many years to build,

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and the girls before me
were the pioneers.

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GIRL 1: I just think
it's so fun and inspirational

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to see these amazing
and talented women playing.

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GIRL 2: I, like, love
their competitiveness

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and how much courage they have.

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GIRL I like it
because you can be athletic

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and you can, like, show
what you're capable of.

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I just love playing basketball,

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and playing on Lady Griz
is just my life.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SKYLA SISCO: "Small"
means different things
to different people.

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In eastern Montana,
small can anywhere from...

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two hundred people
in the town to,

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you know, 3,000.

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I went to a one-room schoolhouse
until fourth grade,

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so when we're talking backwoods,

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I was it.

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LAURA COTE GUNDLACH:
If you got detention,

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you had clean up poop
on the football field,

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bison poop,

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because it's a national park.

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KRISTY LANGTON SCHLIMGEN:
Typical ranching lifestyle...

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Changing pipes,
bucking bales, feeding cows.

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Learning how to drive
when you're six...

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JORDAN SULLIVAN:
Closest mall, four hours.

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Closest Costco, four hours.

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We used to go to North Dakota
for Walmart and a movie.

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MALIA KIPP: Sports were big.
I mean, what was there to do?

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We didn't have a movie theater,
a mall, or anything like that.

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KATIE EDWARDS:    I was always
playing with the farmer
down the street in his sixties,

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or, um,

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the kid that drove 30 miles
from the other town

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just to play five-on-five.

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SCHLIMGEN: I had a backboard
that my dad pieced together
out of some steel,

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that hung over our garage
that didn't have a garage door,

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and I had a little one-by-four

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for my free-throw line
that I nailed into the ground.

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SISCO: To be offered
a scholarship at the U
was just...

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It's just a dream come true
for a small town kid.

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Just a chance.

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I didn't want to play
for anybody else

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like, I wanted to play
for the Lady Griz,

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and, like, Robin Selvig.

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I remember, that's just
all I dreamt about.

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ROBIN SELVIG: My hometown
is Outlook, Montana,

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population of 75.

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And I had seven brothers
and sisters,

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so you just were real active
in everything.

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I grew up
from the time I was little

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with a box up above the door

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and you're playing basketball
with your brothers.

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SCOTT HOLLENBECRobin came
from a high school

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that barely had
enough males in it
to field a basketball team.

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There was fifty kids
in our high school,

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fifteen in my graduating class.

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ROALD SELVIG: Sports were
very, very important

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in Outlook, just like they were
in all the little towns.

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AGNES SELVIG: Our town
was just hyper
about basketball.

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The whole town would shut down
and take off.

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Everybody went
to the tournaments.

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ROALAfter the games,
we met at the bar

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and explained to the coach
what he did wrong and so forth.

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ROBII got recruited
by the University of Montana.

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And to be able to go on
from little old Outlook
and come to big city Missoula,

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chased the station wagon
down the street

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when they dropped me off,
I was...

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homesick before they left.

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My sophomore year was
when Jud Heathcote came,
he was tough,

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I wasn't used to
his coaching style.

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Jud is kind of considered

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the godfather
of Montana basketball.

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And obviously,
Jud coached Magic Johnson

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and won
a National Championship

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and had an unbelievable career.

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HOLLENBECK:    Jud was on him.

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Judd saw his potential,

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Jud saw how good he could be,

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especially as
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First of all, told me
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and I wasn't a good defender.

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I didn't particularly like that,
but I wasn't.

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He should have
let me take more shots

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'cause I could shoot, too,
but anyway...

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HOLLENBECK: There was a time
and a point at which
I can still recall

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that Jud made references
to Robin playing like a girl,

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and Robin exceeded the challenge

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because he became
an excellent defensive player.

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Then he taught me
the game of basketball.

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HEATHCOTE: Rob, as a player,
always listened
to what the coaches said.

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He was an ideal guy to coach.

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He kind of had a charisma
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even though he came from,

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you know, Outlook, Montana,
which is almost in Canada.

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ROALD: I tried to listen
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and I remember one time
they were playing at Weber,

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and amongst the static
I heard the name Selvig.
[CHUCKLES]

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So, uh, I stopped right there
and I listened.

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HEATHCOTI've always
said that if he hadn't
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he would've played
professional basketball.

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I thought he was that good.

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ROBIN: We lost a playoff game
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Sitting in the locker room
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it just came upon me

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that basketball needed to be
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and I couldn't play anymore,
so I was gonna be
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In 1978,
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the women's basketball job
came open
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and I decided to apply.

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Well, it's kind of sad
because I did play here

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and I don't think
we were aware even
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I was offered the job.
Oh, I was excited.

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I was a little nervous,
because, I mean,
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so you didn't know
if it was going anywhere.

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When Rob was hired in 1978,

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women's basketball
was not even recognized
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There was starting to be
some rumbling.

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Title IX was
definitely in the news.

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It was something
that there was
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but it was something
that was coming.

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In 1964, Title VI
of the Civil Rights Act
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in it the protected classes
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and national origin.

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Prominently, sex was not part
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Title IX was passed in 1972.

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In 1975, the regulations
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and that's really where,
sort of, the rubber
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It became prescriptive
on what steps
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It made sure that women
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uniforms,
scholarship opportunities,

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publicity, equipment,
good facilities.

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Which seemed like
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If you're federally funded,

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why aren't my daughters

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getting the same opportunities
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The disparity
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before Title IX
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ANNETTE WHITAKER ROCHELEAU:
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We bought our own shoes.

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We basically wore
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The locker room we had
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it was down at the end
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We were lucky
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carpeted our locker room
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ROCHELEAU: The shower
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I mean, there was one toilet
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Our weight room was this
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I don't even know
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LINDA DEDEN SMITH: There were
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practicing
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There wasn't heat in there
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MORRILL: When I got here
the same year as Robin,
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and they hired me for $16,000.

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Now this was way back when.

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Robin was hired
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'cause the head women's coach

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That's how backward times were.

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ROBIN:    And I think
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moved rapidly
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and I like to think
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that it was
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Rob demanded things,
and so it was a lot better
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FRANCE: With respect
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many of these women
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They suddenly had
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and that's opportunities
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but it's also the opportunity
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We went from, like,
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It's really
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I knew nothing about
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Rob saw me, a 6'2" girl.
You're probable not gonna
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I don't know if college would
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had I not had
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FRANCE:    As much as
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about the government
interfering with
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in the area of civil rights,
and particularly Title IX,

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I'm afraid that
we wouldn't have seen

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the kinds of progress
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It really took
the regulations, to, um...

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make sure
the cultural change happened.

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SANDY: Rob spent
a lot of time watching film.

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He just studied
and studied and studied,

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because he really was dedicated,
very much a scholar of the game.

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He was a really good
fundamental coach.

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We're never going to be perfect,

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but he has that desire
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ROCHELEARob was just
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that I just loved,
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and that great, nice guy
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ECKMANN: He was
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both offensively
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ROCHELEAU: He was
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You were going to get coached.

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The first game with Rob
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ANITA:    We just got shelled.

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And at halftime,
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We lost.
I'm pretty sure we lost.

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He would probably
be able to tell you.

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ROBIN: And we got
a pretty good thumping
in both of them.

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Really good thumping
at Weber State.

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And, uh, [CHUCKLING]
I was going, "Whoa!

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"Maybe I should
call the high school

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"and see if
I can get my job back."

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And I remember, you know,
going in the locker room
afterwards,

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and they were talking about,

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"Oh, wonder where
we're gonna eat
after the game,"

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and all this stuff,
and... [LAUGHS]

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and I wasn't.

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I wanted to leave
the impression.

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And I said,
"We're not gonna eat."

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They shouldn't have
been worried about

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where they're gonna eat
after that thumping.

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They should have had
been sitting there
waiting to talk about,

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"Hey, what we got to do better."

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He coached us the way
he would have coached
a men's team.

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There was no cushioning
the blows or anything like that.

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So the idea back then,

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that he would treat
female athletes the same

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as someone would treat
a male basketball team

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is pioneering.

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There's a certain
school of thought

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that you don't want to
shout too much,

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you don't want to
hurt their feelings.

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SMITH: Rob felt that
an athlete is an athlete,

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which is a wonderful thing
for a female athlete.

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It elevates you.

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ROCHELEABack
in the old days...
[CHUCKLING]

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we played a lot
of prelims to the men.

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A lot of people wanted prelims.

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MICK HOLIEN: For most people,

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if they got there,
they might have got there

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'cause they wanted
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general admission
for the men's game.

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It was boyfriends,
girlfriends, family.

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Hardly anybody else.

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ROCHELEAU:    He wanted people
to come to see us.

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And I think
getting away from prelims

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changed our identity immensely.

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ROBIN: Hardly anybody
was coming.

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Hardly anybody was interested.

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And it wasn't easy,

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because it started
from a baseline of zero.

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COMMENTATOR: This is how
the program looked
in the late 1970s.

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The early years
of Robin Selvig's
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Empty stands,
second rate uniforms,

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and no conference on a par
with the men's Big Sky league.

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ROBIN: The 1984 game
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was a big launching pad
for our program.

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Oregon State at the time
was big powerhouse.

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ROBIN: Because of
the success we had that year,

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we were awarded a home game
in the NCAA tournament.

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CHERI BRATT ROBERTS: We went
into the locker room,

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and when we came back out,

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the janitors were pulling
the stands out

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because more people
were coming in.

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We had no idea the 4,000
or whatever people showed up
would show up.

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JANE: Just seeing
people pouring in...

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It brought tears to my eyes,

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just to see people
are really turning out
to see these girls play.

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ROBERTS: And wow, it was...

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[VOICE BREAKING]
really good to see
that many people that

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wanted to come watch us play.

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It was so loud

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that we could barely hear
each other in the huddle.

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It was like being
at a college men's game,

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and at the time,
that just didn't exist
other places.

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ROBIThe atmosphere,
that was electric.

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I mean, you have to be there
to actually feel it.

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It's just, uh, goosebumps
and electricity in the air,

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and the deafening
roar of the crowd
when you do something well.

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ANITA: The crowd
is what actually got us
through that game,

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and I think the reason we won.

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ROBINobody thought you could
ever produce revenue.

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You know, "Okay, women's sports,
nobody's gonna ever come watch."

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What we did,
what my ladies started to do,

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was show, "Oh.
Oh, they're good.
They're talented."

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"Oh, they compete!"

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"Oh, they're fun to watch."

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COMMENTATOR: Coach Selvig
with win number 224,

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becomes the winningest coach
in Grizzly history.

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ROCHELEAEvery year,
for the first seven
or eight years,

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our attendance doubled.

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FEMALE REPORTER: The game
sold out days in advance,

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but if you were lucky enough
to get a ticket,

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you had the honor of being part
of the largest crowd ever

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for women's basketball
west of the Rockies.

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ANDY BASKIN: It's a tough place
for the Lady Kats to play in.

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The last time they won here,

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Jimmy Carter was in his
second day of his presidency.

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So winning in Dahlberg Arena

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is nothing that the Lady Kats
are used to.

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MALE NEWSCASTER: It has been
simply a phenomenal year

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for the Lady Griz
basketball team.

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They would shatter
individual scoring
and attendance records.

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They would remain
the only major undefeated team
in the country,

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thus establishing
their national ranking
at number 14.

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We took great pride in being
a good defensive team.

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I developed a mentality

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that that's how you win
basketball games
and win a championship.

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The tough thing is,
you have to go then

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win the conference tournament
to go to the NCAA.

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So not only did he dominate
the regular season,

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he dominated by winning
the conference tournament

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that then got them to the NCAA.

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STONThe first round
against Stanford,

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you couldn't have put
another human being in here.

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ROBIN: The atmosphere
in that game,
the band playing,

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I mean,
it was a back-and-forth.

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FEMALE REPORTER: The game
was over sell-out capacity,

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and people were stacked up
to the ceiling.

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Some lady grabbed me
by the shoulder and said,

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"Did you come to see
what it's supposed to be like?"

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[LAUGHS]

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And I had to chuckle at that,
'cause, you know,
we weren't doing badly,

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but Robin was doing
so unbelievably that,

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uh, we paled by comparison.

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HOLIEN: It was
one of those games
that was beyond belief,

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down five, the end of the game

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to try to get it into overtime.

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When you're doing
a game up high,

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you can tell
that the ball's going in.

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I have that on video
with my audio on top of it.

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The ball's in the air
and I screamed,

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"Bang!"

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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You know, the last shot
of the game, then overtime,

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that would have sent us
to the sweet 16.

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MALE NEWSCASTER: Montana lost
that night in a heartbreaker,

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but the tradition
had been established.

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And who knows
where it might go next?

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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MORRILL: Just the climate
around the country was changing
for women's basketball.

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I think he actually took Montana

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and moved it ahead
of the rest of the country.

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It got better faster.

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COMMENTATOR: The opening
tip-off between
Wisconsin and Montana

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is just around the corner.

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JOY ANDERSON KENDALL:
It was the largest crowd
women's NCAA had seen

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for a first round game, ever.

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I mean, for us,
we were right at home.

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Uh, women's basketball,
you can't beat it.

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COMMENTATOR: Jodi Hinrichs
in there

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against the Big Ten's
Freshman of the Year
Barb Franke.

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Opening tip controlled
by Wisconsin...

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HOLLENBECShannon Cate
was a senior

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and played lights out that game.

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COMMENTATOR: Cate using a pick,
coming off the pick,
and Cate has four,

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the Badgers have nothing.

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Cate over Williams,
got it to drop.

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Cate is excellent...

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COMMENTATOR: It's nice
to have a thoroughbred

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like Shannon Cate
in this situation.

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Good defense by Williams,
as she went right over...

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SHANNON CATE SCHWEYEN:
Every time we would
make a basket,

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just silencing the crowd,

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and then the crowd
would get back into it,

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and get back into it,

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and then we'd make a basket
and silence the crowd.

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They never truly thought
Montana would come in there
and beat them.

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COMMENTATOR: Runner, no good,
rebound is good.

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Nice position rebound...

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HOLLENBECK: We handled
the Badgers.

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It was, start to finish,
Lady Griz...

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COMMENTATOR: The Lady Griz
have flown into Madison,

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and they have
conquered the Badgers.

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They've been led
by Shannon Cate

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with 34 points
and 11 rebounds.

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And they celebrate
the spoils of victory

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under their veteran coach.

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WOMAI think
it gets fun to bring
my daughters to see it.

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It's fun for them to see
powerful, successful women,

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and, uh,

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doing good things
for Missoula and the university.

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I love, like...

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I heart the Lady Griz a lot.

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Like, so much.

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Lady Griz basketball
is the best,

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and I love it.

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And as a fan,
we are part of the team,

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we're the sixth player.

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I like watching them play
because they're so good,

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and I want to be
a Lady Griz basketball player
when I grow up.

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I missed women's basketball
by about three years,

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and so, maybe I live...

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I live vicariously through them

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'cause I would like
to be the bask.

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I would love to be a Lady Griz.

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MORRILL: There aren't
very many universities

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that the women are called
something a little different
than the men.

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And to brand "Lady Griz,"

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uh, different
than just "The Griz,"

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I thought was
a little bit genius.

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MALE NARRATOR:
They are made in Montana.

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Livingston,

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Kalispell, Browning,

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Fairfield, Havre,

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Miles City, Philipsburg,

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Malta, Stevensville
and Missoula.

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This team will
search for victory.

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The quest will be guided
by a man from Outlook.

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ROBIN:    When we hosted UNLV
in the NCAA tournament,

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we were made up of
all Montana kids,

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which is pretty unique.

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We were really
representing Montana

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and we were representing
Lady Griz basketball.

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MALIHow many
Division I basketball teams

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can say that
they're all from one state?

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There probably hasn't been one.

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ROCHELEABeing from Montana,

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they're looking, thinking,
"These guys got no chance."

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Montana, we're still using
outhouses, you know?

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It's like,
"Do you guys fly or bus?"

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MALIA: To think that
we're all from small towns,
reservations,

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small ranch towns,

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pretty amazing.

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I remember
the excitement of winning
and being able to go on

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into the second round
of the NCAAs.

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It was fun
to show that, you know,

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a small school from Montana
can go compete with the best.

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ROBII think
the fan base likes

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that we have a nucleus
of Montana players,

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but, believe me,

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they cheer and are just as proud

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of our Washington girls
and our California girls
and our Oregon girls.

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Missoula became a women's
basketball central, capital.

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To have a women's
basketball program

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at a school that's
generating revenue for you
through ticket sales

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is unusual
at the Division I level.

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The sport became popular here

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because they won.

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Make no mistake about it.

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If you're not winning,

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people still
aren't gonna come out.

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You gotta win.

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TOM STAGPrior to the games,

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Selvig would take a ride
up the Rattlesnake

472
00:21:58.083 --> 00:21:59.685
and listen to, you know,

473
00:21:59.685 --> 00:22:01.320
some opera music
and be calm as heck.

474
00:22:01.320 --> 00:22:03.188
ROBIN:    Soon
as the ball went up,

475
00:22:03.188 --> 00:22:05.724
it was like someone hit me
with a cattle prod

476
00:22:05.724 --> 00:22:08.193
and all of a sudden,
I was back to being
psycho coach.

477
00:22:09.961 --> 00:22:13.999
AGNES: Watching Rob coach
was fun and exciting,

478
00:22:13.999 --> 00:22:16.201
and, uh, scary. [LAUGHS]

479
00:22:16.201 --> 00:22:18.503
There's a picture
in a lot of papers

480
00:22:18.503 --> 00:22:20.072
of Rob down on all fours.

481
00:22:20.072 --> 00:22:22.741
SMITH: The sport coat
comes off,
it goes on the floor

482
00:22:22.741 --> 00:22:24.142
and then we jump on it.

483
00:22:24.142 --> 00:22:26.511
Well, sometimes
I was watching him
and not the game

484
00:22:26.511 --> 00:22:29.314
because he was different.
[CHUCKLES]

485
00:22:29.314 --> 00:22:32.217
One time, when he went to
sit down, and missed the chair

486
00:22:32.217 --> 00:22:34.820
and got right up
and didn't even know
he'd missed the chair.

487
00:22:34.820 --> 00:22:36.621
SUE HABBE:    One of the lines
he always told me,

488
00:22:36.621 --> 00:22:40.559
I made up for my lack of height
with my lack of speed.

489
00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.594
MARGARET WILLIAMS: He's like,
"Williams, I sure wish

490
00:22:42.594 --> 00:22:43.628
"I could've played you more,

491
00:22:43.628 --> 00:22:45.564
"but we simply
could not afford to

492
00:22:45.564 --> 00:22:47.165
"have you on the floor for us."

493
00:22:47.165 --> 00:22:48.567
And it was true. They couldn't.

494
00:22:48.567 --> 00:22:49.835
[INAUDIBLE]

495
00:22:49.835 --> 00:22:53.839
"We are the dumbest
team in America." [LAUGHS]

496
00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:57.042
GRETA KOSS BUEHLER:
"Pretend you're fast.
Put your hands on."

497
00:22:57.042 --> 00:22:59.244
I got called Wendy Weak a lot.

498
00:23:03.181 --> 00:23:06.451
JANE: For most of those games,
I was behind the bench

499
00:23:06.451 --> 00:23:09.721
and I would cringe.

500
00:23:09.721 --> 00:23:13.225
AGNES:    And he said,
"I knew my mother
was behind the bench."

501
00:23:13.225 --> 00:23:14.960
[CHUCKLING] Oh.

502
00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:17.829
Then he calmed down a little.

503
00:23:34.846 --> 00:23:38.483
MAN 1: You know, we don't
have a lot of opportunities
on the reservation.

504
00:23:38.483 --> 00:23:41.153
So, basketball around here,
that's really big.

505
00:23:41.153 --> 00:23:44.055
We just want
to cheer on our people.

506
00:23:44.055 --> 00:23:45.490
NEWS ANCHOR: One of the
up-and-coming stars

507
00:23:45.490 --> 00:23:46.858
of the Lady Griz
basketball team

508
00:23:46.858 --> 00:23:49.561
has already qualified
for hero status.

509
00:23:49.561 --> 00:23:51.630
At least in the eyes
of the people of Browning.

510
00:23:51.630 --> 00:23:53.799
Jill Valley has more
on Malia Kipp.

511
00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:57.002
VALLEMalia is special
as one of just a handful

512
00:23:57.002 --> 00:23:59.371
of Native American women
in the country

513
00:23:59.371 --> 00:24:03.408
with a full-ride
basketball scholarship
at a Division I school.

514
00:24:03.408 --> 00:24:04.776
She hopes her success

515
00:24:04.776 --> 00:24:07.679
inspires other
Native American women.

516
00:24:07.679 --> 00:24:09.915
MAN 2: You know,
I remember watching her

517
00:24:09.915 --> 00:24:11.850
and it just, like,
gives our girls here

518
00:24:11.850 --> 00:24:15.587
something to look up to.

519
00:24:15.587 --> 00:24:18.290
A lot of little kids back home
need good role models

520
00:24:18.290 --> 00:24:20.125
and I believe that I'm a good...

521
00:24:20.125 --> 00:24:21.193
Good role model for 'em.

522
00:24:23.295 --> 00:24:25.063
[INAUDIBLE]

523
00:24:28.900 --> 00:24:31.036
MALIA: Growing up
on the reservation

524
00:24:31.036 --> 00:24:33.638
we didn't have
a lot of things, um...

525
00:24:33.638 --> 00:24:37.609
But, I mean,
everybody had a basketball.

526
00:24:37.609 --> 00:24:42.113
Browning has
so many strong athletes

527
00:24:42.113 --> 00:24:46.551
and I just think
in the past, that...

528
00:24:46.551 --> 00:24:49.821
you know, just,
natives were overlooked.

529
00:24:49.821 --> 00:24:51.957
Getting the opportunity
to go to school

530
00:24:51.957 --> 00:24:54.659
on a Division I scholarship

531
00:24:54.659 --> 00:24:57.362
was amazing.

532
00:24:57.362 --> 00:25:00.632
Rob called the house,
and my mom hollered,

533
00:25:00.632 --> 00:25:02.901
"Malia! Malia!
Rob's on the phone."

534
00:25:02.901 --> 00:25:04.336
He asked how I was doing

535
00:25:04.336 --> 00:25:07.205
and would I be interested
in playing ball for Lady Griz.

536
00:25:07.973 --> 00:25:10.675
And in my mind I'm screaming,

537
00:25:10.675 --> 00:25:13.178
[SOFTLY] "Yes! Finally!"

538
00:25:13.178 --> 00:25:16.081
But what came out was,
"Sure. Yes."

539
00:25:16.081 --> 00:25:18.717
BARBARA KIPWe put
a little pressure on Malia.

540
00:25:18.717 --> 00:25:19.951
You gotta tend to business

541
00:25:19.951 --> 00:25:21.987
because then they see you
as an Indian

542
00:25:21.987 --> 00:25:24.322
who's just another Indian
who didn't make it.

543
00:25:26.758 --> 00:25:29.794
MALIA: No matter
how tired I was

544
00:25:29.794 --> 00:25:34.065
or how, um, I felt like
maybe I couldn't do this,

545
00:25:34.065 --> 00:25:35.767
like, quitting was
not an option.

546
00:25:35.767 --> 00:25:39.204
I had too many youngsters

547
00:25:39.204 --> 00:25:41.273
that I needed to motivate.

548
00:25:41.273 --> 00:25:44.409
Yes, we have...

549
00:25:44.409 --> 00:25:46.077
We can be here. We can compete.

550
00:25:46.077 --> 00:25:47.145
We can succeed.

551
00:25:48.580 --> 00:25:51.283
BARBARA: You know,
just the opportunity
it gave Malia

552
00:25:51.283 --> 00:25:53.652
was real impactful.

553
00:25:55.353 --> 00:25:59.591
I think other kids
looked at leaving here

554
00:25:59.591 --> 00:26:03.895
and having people
off-reservation

555
00:26:03.895 --> 00:26:05.597
recognize you as...

556
00:26:06.965 --> 00:26:10.502
not only capable, but talented.

557
00:26:10.502 --> 00:26:13.071
Sometimes people go through life

558
00:26:14.573 --> 00:26:17.576
feeling invisible,
not being looked at,

559
00:26:17.576 --> 00:26:19.711
unless they're looked at
with suspicion.

560
00:26:19.711 --> 00:26:25.150
Natives are resilient people,
you know.

561
00:26:25.150 --> 00:26:28.753
Overcome a lot of things
in the past

562
00:26:28.753 --> 00:26:32.223
and continue to overcome
and educate.

563
00:26:32.223 --> 00:26:34.926
CARL: Rob was inducted
into the Indian Hall of Fame.

564
00:26:34.926 --> 00:26:39.230
As of today is probably
the only non-Indian

565
00:26:39.230 --> 00:26:42.701
that's been inducted
into the Hall of Fame.

566
00:26:43.835 --> 00:26:47.138
MALIRob gave
Native American females

567
00:26:47.138 --> 00:26:49.541
an opportunity to be successful
at the next level.

568
00:26:49.541 --> 00:26:51.977
And I don't want to
use the word "gave."

569
00:26:51.977 --> 00:26:55.213
I want to say we earned it
and he recognized it.

570
00:27:05.624 --> 00:27:09.060
TAMARA GUARDIPEE:
You guys remember what
Rob would always say?

571
00:27:09.060 --> 00:27:11.296
I meant when he was screaming
at you guys from the bench?

572
00:27:11.296 --> 00:27:14.099
-I'm the worst
free-throw shooter in America.
-[ALL CHUCKLE]

573
00:27:14.099 --> 00:27:16.368
Which was almost kind of
accurate at the time, but...

574
00:27:16.368 --> 00:27:18.236
[ALL LAUGH]

575
00:27:18.803 --> 00:27:20.205
I know when I was...

576
00:27:20.205 --> 00:27:23.208
That day I was leaving
and my mom and dad

577
00:27:23.208 --> 00:27:25.076
were helping me
bring stuff out to the car

578
00:27:25.076 --> 00:27:27.579
and I was like, "What,
you're not driving me?"

579
00:27:27.579 --> 00:27:29.481
I was just like, "What?

580
00:27:29.481 --> 00:27:32.317
"You're not gonna stay
for, like, a week or so
and, like, help me adjust?"

581
00:27:32.317 --> 00:27:34.853
Then I was like,
"No, you'll be okay."

582
00:27:34.853 --> 00:27:36.254
That's a really good point.

583
00:27:36.254 --> 00:27:38.657
Because, you know,
the initial hurdle

584
00:27:38.657 --> 00:27:41.393
is going off the res
and going to school.

585
00:27:41.393 --> 00:27:44.629
Like, it literally felt like
a different, like, continent.

586
00:27:44.629 --> 00:27:46.264
When I went to Missoula.
It felt huge.

587
00:27:46.264 --> 00:27:48.900
I didn't want to drive my car.
I got lost.

588
00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:51.636
Like, I didn't even
grow up with a stop light,

589
00:27:51.636 --> 00:27:53.405
so, I was afraid of stop lights.

590
00:27:53.405 --> 00:27:55.807
-[ALL LAUGH]
-Yeah, I think Malia, um...

591
00:27:57.108 --> 00:27:59.010
being the first trailblazer...

592
00:27:59.010 --> 00:28:01.646
You know, it's like,
something happens
in your mind

593
00:28:01.646 --> 00:28:03.148
when you see
somebody else do it.

594
00:28:03.148 --> 00:28:05.050
I mean,
I'm not 100 percent positive

595
00:28:05.050 --> 00:28:07.318
I would have tried
to play for the Lady Griz

596
00:28:07.318 --> 00:28:09.054
if I wouldn't have
seen her do it first.

597
00:28:09.054 --> 00:28:14.125
Watching Malia play,
it just, um,

598
00:28:14.125 --> 00:28:16.528
gave me inspiration
that I could do it.

599
00:28:16.528 --> 00:28:18.296
You know, I'm Native American,

600
00:28:18.296 --> 00:28:19.764
she was Native American,

601
00:28:19.764 --> 00:28:21.633
um, she did it,

602
00:28:21.633 --> 00:28:23.635
I can do it as well

603
00:28:23.635 --> 00:28:27.906
and prove to everybody
that I could get off
the reservation,

604
00:28:27.906 --> 00:28:29.774
go to college and stick it out.

605
00:28:29.774 --> 00:28:31.042
Not only basketball,

606
00:28:31.042 --> 00:28:33.578
but academics as well, you know.

607
00:28:33.578 --> 00:28:36.114
I think it's super important

608
00:28:36.114 --> 00:28:39.784
to be a part of a sports team

609
00:28:39.784 --> 00:28:41.186
if you want to leave,

610
00:28:41.186 --> 00:28:44.255
because if feel like,
a lot of the times,

611
00:28:44.255 --> 00:28:46.791
you know,
that's your ticket out.

612
00:28:48.293 --> 00:28:51.930
And there were
many times during college
when I was just like,

613
00:28:51.930 --> 00:28:53.798
"Do I want to keep doing this?"

614
00:28:53.798 --> 00:28:55.667
You know, um...

615
00:28:55.667 --> 00:28:59.804
But I would think,
"Well, Malia made it.
"So, I can probably do this."

616
00:28:59.804 --> 00:29:00.905
[ALL CHUCKLE]

617
00:29:00.905 --> 00:29:03.308
You know, "I can do four years.

618
00:29:03.308 --> 00:29:04.609
"Malia did it somehow."

619
00:29:04.609 --> 00:29:07.612
"I'm going to, um...
I'm gonna try to do the same."

620
00:29:07.612 --> 00:29:09.581
-And you did.
-And I did, yeah.

621
00:29:22.327 --> 00:29:27.165
JANE: I think the hardest part
of Rob's job

622
00:29:27.165 --> 00:29:31.569
was definitely kind of being
a single parent at times.

623
00:29:31.569 --> 00:29:32.971
You know, I was a teacher

624
00:29:32.971 --> 00:29:36.775
and, um, I quit teaching
when the boys were born

625
00:29:36.775 --> 00:29:38.343
because every other weekend,

626
00:29:38.343 --> 00:29:40.245
he would be gone for, you know,

627
00:29:40.245 --> 00:29:42.113
maybe Wednesday through Sunday.

628
00:29:44.716 --> 00:29:47.619
ROBIN: I would have never
thought of missing a practice.

629
00:29:47.619 --> 00:29:49.187
One of the boys was sick

630
00:29:49.187 --> 00:29:51.589
and Janey, she'd be the one
that would stay home with them.

631
00:29:51.589 --> 00:29:53.191
I was coach, I had to go...

632
00:29:53.191 --> 00:29:54.225
I had to go to work.

633
00:29:54.225 --> 00:29:55.160
We had practice.

634
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:56.528
And I kind of wish now...

635
00:29:56.528 --> 00:29:58.229
Maybe I missed out
on some things

636
00:29:58.229 --> 00:29:59.898
which would be like
staying at home.

637
00:30:01.566 --> 00:30:04.803
JANE: And then game days
were really, really
hard for him.

638
00:30:04.803 --> 00:30:06.437
Really, really stressful.

639
00:30:06.437 --> 00:30:08.039
You could tell he was
completely stressed out.

640
00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:09.474
He was zoned out.

641
00:30:12.177 --> 00:30:15.446
He would feel terrible

642
00:30:15.446 --> 00:30:17.816
that he didn't get a player
into the game

643
00:30:17.816 --> 00:30:20.685
or he got a player into
the game for 90 seconds.

644
00:30:20.685 --> 00:30:23.755
He really felt like
every player had

645
00:30:23.755 --> 00:30:25.623
a role in the team,
and an important role.

646
00:30:27.025 --> 00:30:30.061
JEFF SELVIG: Growing up,
my basketball role models

647
00:30:30.061 --> 00:30:31.296
were the Lady Griz.

648
00:30:31.296 --> 00:30:33.665
Uh, Marti Leibenguth,
I remember.

649
00:30:33.665 --> 00:30:36.467
Um, at one point I told my dad,

650
00:30:36.467 --> 00:30:38.436
"That is who
I want to play like."

651
00:30:38.436 --> 00:30:42.373
DAN SELVIG: My first memories
were of great women
playing basketball.

652
00:30:42.373 --> 00:30:45.410
And, so, for me, it always
just seemed totally natural

653
00:30:45.410 --> 00:30:48.213
because that's the world
that I lived in.

654
00:30:48.213 --> 00:30:49.581
JEFThe thing I liked least

655
00:30:49.581 --> 00:30:52.116
about my dad being a coach
growing up

656
00:30:52.116 --> 00:30:53.885
was the fact that
he was gone quite a bit

657
00:30:53.885 --> 00:30:56.020
and I remember
he'd always bring back

658
00:30:56.020 --> 00:30:59.190
a little a souvenir
or something
from wherever he went,

659
00:30:59.190 --> 00:31:00.992
so, we'd be excited,

660
00:31:00.992 --> 00:31:03.494
you know,
waiting for him to come home.

661
00:31:06.397 --> 00:31:08.233
My mother played a huge role

662
00:31:08.233 --> 00:31:09.834
behind the scenes
with the team.

663
00:31:09.834 --> 00:31:12.503
She was a huge part
of my father's success
as a coach.

664
00:31:25.950 --> 00:31:28.419
ROBIN:    Pat Summitt
is the real pioneer

665
00:31:28.419 --> 00:31:29.754
in women's basketball.

666
00:31:29.754 --> 00:31:32.290
Talked about playing a series
and, uh, she said,

667
00:31:32.290 --> 00:31:34.926
"Yeah, we've never played
in Montana, let's do it."

668
00:31:34.926 --> 00:31:38.396
Number one in the nation
coming to Missoula. Great.

669
00:31:39.631 --> 00:31:41.299
SISCWe were
unranked nationally.

670
00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:42.667
They were ranked number one.

671
00:31:42.667 --> 00:31:44.168
I'm certain, to a point,
they overlooked this.

672
00:31:44.168 --> 00:31:45.703
I mean, it's hard not to.

673
00:31:45.703 --> 00:31:47.772
People literally laughed.

674
00:31:47.772 --> 00:31:50.241
You know, they were like,
"Um, right, who's this?"

675
00:31:50.241 --> 00:31:51.342
Like, "Montana? Whatever."

676
00:31:51.342 --> 00:31:54.512
"A bunch of skinny girls
from Montana."

677
00:31:54.512 --> 00:31:56.948
And then we'd get out
there on the floor

678
00:31:56.948 --> 00:32:00.752
and play 40 minutes of
the most intense basketball
they've ever seen.

679
00:32:00.752 --> 00:32:03.488
INTERVIEWER: Do you guys
make it a point to come
into a lot of the games?

680
00:32:03.488 --> 00:32:05.456
-Yes. Every game.
-As much as we can.

681
00:32:05.456 --> 00:32:07.792
SISCO: At one point,
late in the fourth,

682
00:32:07.792 --> 00:32:09.527
we were only down
by two or three, I think,

683
00:32:09.527 --> 00:32:12.196
and the crowd was starting
to get a sense of like,

684
00:32:12.196 --> 00:32:13.765
"Oh, this could
really happen."

685
00:32:13.765 --> 00:32:16.768
We could really beat
a number-one-seed team
in the nation.

686
00:32:23.141 --> 00:32:25.543
-MAN: Yeah!
-[CROWD CHEERING]

687
00:32:27.745 --> 00:32:29.147
SPELTZ:
It's a special connection

688
00:32:29.147 --> 00:32:30.882
between the fans
and the players.

689
00:32:30.882 --> 00:32:33.551
There's a little magic there.
There's a little mystique.

690
00:32:33.551 --> 00:32:35.486
[INDISTINCT COMMENTARY]

691
00:32:35.486 --> 00:32:37.088
PYRON:    I'm actually
one of the kids

692
00:32:37.088 --> 00:32:38.790
that wanted to play
for the Lady Griz,

693
00:32:38.790 --> 00:32:40.024
looking around the arena,

694
00:32:40.024 --> 00:32:41.726
thinking that, someday,
I was going to play

695
00:32:41.726 --> 00:32:43.695
in front of
this type of a crowd.

696
00:32:43.695 --> 00:32:46.097
Um, it was overwhelming.
It was emotional.

697
00:32:46.097 --> 00:32:49.100
COMMENTATOR 1: This is where
you need one of those
special plays that

698
00:32:49.100 --> 00:32:50.802
hits someone long.

699
00:32:50.802 --> 00:32:52.770
COMMENTATOR 2:
Kipp gets this
going to backcourt

700
00:32:52.770 --> 00:32:54.138
One second to shoot.

701
00:32:54.138 --> 00:32:56.374
She sends the longshot down,
but it doesn't go.

702
00:32:56.374 --> 00:32:59.243
The final score.
The Tennessee Lady Vols, 66,

703
00:32:59.243 --> 00:33:00.778
Montana, 61.

704
00:33:00.778 --> 00:33:03.815
The Lady Griz
get a standing ovation
from the crowd.

705
00:33:05.717 --> 00:33:07.051
[INTERVIEWER SPEAKING]

706
00:33:08.186 --> 00:33:09.921
Well, if they play that well
all the time,

707
00:33:09.921 --> 00:33:12.123
they're a good
basketball team.
They're very impressive.

708
00:33:12.123 --> 00:33:14.158
Having been in the business
21 years,

709
00:33:14.158 --> 00:33:15.860
never have we gone on the road

710
00:33:15.860 --> 00:33:18.796
and played in front of
almost 19,000 fans

711
00:33:18.796 --> 00:33:20.531
in a matter of
a two-game period.

712
00:33:30.041 --> 00:33:32.276
HEATHCOTE: You know,
I always thought so much of Rob

713
00:33:32.276 --> 00:33:34.379
that when I had
an assistant's job open

714
00:33:34.379 --> 00:33:36.047
at Michigan State University,

715
00:33:36.047 --> 00:33:40.418
I contacted him twice
to see if he had any interest

716
00:33:40.418 --> 00:33:42.286
and he turned me down
both times.

717
00:33:42.286 --> 00:33:44.689
There's no way I could say,

718
00:33:44.689 --> 00:33:46.357
"Ladies, I'm gonna
move up to the men's."

719
00:33:46.357 --> 00:33:48.793
That wasn't a step up to me.
We were a team.

720
00:33:48.793 --> 00:33:50.094
I mean, I'm part of a team.

721
00:33:50.094 --> 00:33:51.963
BINFORD: Rob could've
coached anywhere,

722
00:33:51.963 --> 00:33:53.431
but he chose to stay there

723
00:33:53.431 --> 00:33:55.700
because it was a place
that he had helped create.

724
00:33:55.700 --> 00:33:57.869
Out of all of the things
he's accomplished,

725
00:33:57.869 --> 00:33:59.237
I think I admire that the most,

726
00:33:59.237 --> 00:34:01.472
is the fact that
he made that his home

727
00:34:01.472 --> 00:34:03.441
and no other place
could take him away.

728
00:34:03.441 --> 00:34:05.610
MORRILL: You look at
how many of us

729
00:34:05.610 --> 00:34:07.645
coached Montana
on the men's side

730
00:34:07.645 --> 00:34:10.048
and then something
would come along

731
00:34:10.048 --> 00:34:12.283
and we just thought
we had to take it

732
00:34:12.283 --> 00:34:13.384
because we were
fortunate enough.

733
00:34:13.384 --> 00:34:16.120
We'd get a so-called bigger job,

734
00:34:16.120 --> 00:34:17.922
a so-called better job.

735
00:34:17.922 --> 00:34:19.590
There's no bigger and better job

736
00:34:19.590 --> 00:34:22.060
than Montana to Robin Selvig.

737
00:34:22.060 --> 00:34:25.029
He could take
a line-up every year,

738
00:34:25.029 --> 00:34:26.597
and 15 girls,

739
00:34:26.597 --> 00:34:30.001
and mold them into
this championship team.

740
00:34:30.001 --> 00:34:32.537
He'd just have an itch
for finding what worked

741
00:34:32.537 --> 00:34:35.940
and making them believe.

742
00:34:35.940 --> 00:34:38.076
SCHLIMGEN: At first,
it was a little bit hard

743
00:34:38.076 --> 00:34:41.212
because his level of intensity
and competitiveness

744
00:34:41.212 --> 00:34:43.915
was something I hadn't
experienced before.

745
00:34:43.915 --> 00:34:47.318
He pushed me
to a level of competitiveness

746
00:34:47.318 --> 00:34:49.887
that I didn't know I had.

747
00:34:49.887 --> 00:34:53.057
ROCHELEAU: And everybody
on the team had a role
and knew their role.

748
00:34:53.057 --> 00:34:54.258
And I think most of all,

749
00:34:54.258 --> 00:34:58.563
he taught them
how basketball can be fun.

750
00:34:58.563 --> 00:35:01.466
You can work
really, really hard,
but it's gonna be fun, too.

751
00:35:01.466 --> 00:35:04.702
He wouldn't let you get away
with those little mistakes.

752
00:35:04.702 --> 00:35:06.637
Every practice,
he'd hold you accountable.

753
00:35:06.637 --> 00:35:08.306
SHERRI BROOKS McWILLIAMS:
The first time I dribbled,

754
00:35:08.306 --> 00:35:09.941
turned out I wouldn't
dribble far enough.

755
00:35:09.941 --> 00:35:12.143
So, then, we'd have to
stop the play for everybody
and then I would dribble again.

756
00:35:12.143 --> 00:35:13.911
And then I wasn't
passing at the right angle.

757
00:35:13.911 --> 00:35:16.247
And, I swear, he did that to me
ten times in a row

758
00:35:16.247 --> 00:35:17.748
and I was so frustrated.

759
00:35:17.748 --> 00:35:20.651
But those are the things
that he did

760
00:35:20.651 --> 00:35:21.953
that made me better

761
00:35:21.953 --> 00:35:24.655
because, um, I really learned
how to execute that

762
00:35:24.655 --> 00:35:26.257
the way it should be executed.

763
00:35:26.257 --> 00:35:27.892
TRISH OLSON DUCE: Other places,
you know, they might have

764
00:35:27.892 --> 00:35:29.861
three All-Americans
on their team.

765
00:35:29.861 --> 00:35:31.929
It's a little easier,
I think, to coach
if you have three All-Americans

766
00:35:31.929 --> 00:35:34.298
versus, every year,

767
00:35:34.298 --> 00:35:36.701
um, figuring out
how you're gonna do it

768
00:35:36.701 --> 00:35:38.970
with some girls that might
not be quite as athletic.

769
00:35:38.970 --> 00:35:41.005
SISCO: He really had
an incredible ability

770
00:35:41.005 --> 00:35:43.141
to get the most out of
every single player.

771
00:35:43.141 --> 00:35:46.177
He knew
who he could push far

772
00:35:46.177 --> 00:35:48.179
and we had to be
a little bit more delicate with.

773
00:35:48.179 --> 00:35:50.381
Truly one of
his great strengths,

774
00:35:50.381 --> 00:35:53.751
knowing when he was
about to cross that line
where he would break a player,

775
00:35:53.751 --> 00:35:55.419
but not crossing it,

776
00:35:55.419 --> 00:35:57.822
so, the end result
was getting them

777
00:35:57.822 --> 00:36:00.324
to their absolutely
max potential.

778
00:36:00.324 --> 00:36:03.294
And it was amazing
that he really found
that gray area

779
00:36:03.294 --> 00:36:05.029
with nearly
every player he had.

780
00:36:24.982 --> 00:36:26.617
[CROWD CHEERING]

781
00:36:31.923 --> 00:36:34.258
LeANN MONTEHaving
a child in high school
was a really big challenge.

782
00:36:34.258 --> 00:36:37.061
From that point on,
it was no longer about me.

783
00:36:37.061 --> 00:36:39.564
I know Rob was taking a risk
with bringing me on,

784
00:36:39.564 --> 00:36:41.365
which I'm really grateful for.

785
00:36:41.365 --> 00:36:44.001
It would have been easier for me
to stay on to the reservation,

786
00:36:44.001 --> 00:36:46.070
and my family was there.

787
00:36:47.405 --> 00:36:48.806
ROBIThere's some really good

788
00:36:48.806 --> 00:36:50.541
Native American
basketball teams
in this state.

789
00:36:50.541 --> 00:36:52.210
Men's and women's
high school teams.

790
00:36:52.210 --> 00:36:53.778
Now, I never recruited anybody

791
00:36:53.778 --> 00:36:55.446
I didn't think it was
good enough to play here.

792
00:36:55.446 --> 00:36:57.949
MONTEThere was
a lot of times where
I just wanted to be

793
00:36:57.949 --> 00:37:01.219
the normal college student
without much responsibilities,

794
00:37:01.219 --> 00:37:02.787
other than to get up,
go to class

795
00:37:02.787 --> 00:37:04.055
and then go
to basketball practice.

796
00:37:04.055 --> 00:37:06.190
But, unfortunately,
that wasn't my lifestyle.

797
00:37:06.190 --> 00:37:08.559
You know, my daughter went
to school in the mornings

798
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:11.562
and then she went to the YMCA
in the afternoons

799
00:37:11.562 --> 00:37:14.098
and then I would go
to school all morning,

800
00:37:14.098 --> 00:37:16.033
go to practice
late in the afternoon.

801
00:37:16.033 --> 00:37:19.203
Rob basically held my hand
throughout that
entire first year

802
00:37:19.203 --> 00:37:21.005
and reassured me
that I would be

803
00:37:21.005 --> 00:37:23.574
continuing on with the program
the second year.

804
00:37:23.574 --> 00:37:26.877
He takes the time
to get to understand
his players,

805
00:37:26.877 --> 00:37:28.646
their background,
what they're about.

806
00:37:28.646 --> 00:37:31.315
What kind of responsibilities
they have on and off the court.

807
00:37:31.315 --> 00:37:34.652
I was getting ready
to graduate from undergrad.

808
00:37:34.652 --> 00:37:38.789
I had an option
of whether or not to continue
and pursue a master's

809
00:37:38.789 --> 00:37:40.391
through the
University of Montana

810
00:37:40.391 --> 00:37:42.927
or to actually go to New Mexico
and obtain a law degree.

811
00:37:42.927 --> 00:37:46.430
I remember asking, Rob,
you know, "What should I do?"

812
00:37:46.430 --> 00:37:48.933
You know,
"What am I supposed to do?"

813
00:37:48.933 --> 00:37:50.401
And he looked right at me

814
00:37:50.401 --> 00:37:52.903
and he was like,
"[SCOFFS] Go to law school."

815
00:37:52.903 --> 00:37:54.739
My desire was always,

816
00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:56.307
after graduating
from New Mexico,

817
00:37:56.307 --> 00:37:57.708
was to move home,

818
00:37:57.708 --> 00:37:59.744
take the Montana State Bar
and practice for my tribe,

819
00:37:59.744 --> 00:38:02.113
and fortunately,
that's exactly what I'm doing.

820
00:38:02.113 --> 00:38:05.283
I currently am
the attorney general
for the Chippewa-Cree Tribe.

821
00:38:18.429 --> 00:38:19.730
HOLLIE TYLER SHORT:
My junior year,

822
00:38:19.730 --> 00:38:21.966
we hosted the first round
of the NCAAs here,

823
00:38:21.966 --> 00:38:24.101
and we played Louisiana Tech.

824
00:38:24.101 --> 00:38:26.270
It was sold out. There wasn't
an empty seat in house.

825
00:38:26.270 --> 00:38:28.172
COMMENTATOR:
...last few minutes...

826
00:38:28.172 --> 00:38:30.308
BROOKLYNN LORENZEN:
I've never felt the level
of energy and excitement

827
00:38:30.308 --> 00:38:33.110
amongst my team
and from the fans.

828
00:38:33.110 --> 00:38:35.713
ROBIWe started out.
They jumped on us.

829
00:38:35.713 --> 00:38:37.682
I think we were behind
eight-ten-nothing,

830
00:38:37.682 --> 00:38:39.483
and then we got rolling.

831
00:38:39.483 --> 00:38:42.286
LORENZEI remember
passing the ball up-court
to Katie Edwards

832
00:38:42.286 --> 00:38:44.755
and she hit this
tremendous three-pointer.

833
00:38:44.755 --> 00:38:49.260
-[INDISTINCT COMMENTARY]
-[CROWD CHEERING]

834
00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:52.263
And literally
all the fans stood up

835
00:38:52.263 --> 00:38:54.598
and I could feel
the vibrations on the floor.

836
00:38:54.598 --> 00:38:56.567
I could literally feel it,
but I couldn't hear anything

837
00:38:56.567 --> 00:38:59.270
because it was so loud
that it was silent.

838
00:38:59.270 --> 00:39:01.138
And I did
my first ever fist pump

839
00:39:01.138 --> 00:39:02.940
that I'm still
really embarrassed about.

840
00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:04.008
And they caught it on camera,

841
00:39:04.008 --> 00:39:06.143
so, it was in the paper
the next day

842
00:39:06.143 --> 00:39:07.378
and I was humiliated.

843
00:39:07.378 --> 00:39:09.380
ROBIJulie Deming...

844
00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:11.115
Always comes back
to thinking about her

845
00:39:11.115 --> 00:39:13.584
because she was having
the game of her life, a senior.

846
00:39:13.584 --> 00:39:15.986
COMMENTATOR 2: ...passed
to Deming on the weak side
of the floor,

847
00:39:15.986 --> 00:39:17.888
she made her pay for it.

848
00:39:17.888 --> 00:39:21.625
ROBIN:    She's the young lady
we lost in a car accident
a few years ago.

849
00:39:21.625 --> 00:39:23.427
COMMENTATOR 2: ...can't believe
this ball game has
heap fulls of,

850
00:39:23.427 --> 00:39:26.197
people spread apart
from each other.

851
00:39:26.197 --> 00:39:29.166
COMMENTATOR 1:
That's Julie Deming
setting her career high.

852
00:39:29.166 --> 00:39:31.168
Julie just exploited...

853
00:39:31.168 --> 00:39:33.204
The closer you got to the end
of the game, it was like,

854
00:39:33.204 --> 00:39:34.972
"Oh, my gosh,
they might pull this out."

855
00:39:34.972 --> 00:39:37.742
We had the crowd going crazy.
We were shooting it in.

856
00:39:37.742 --> 00:39:40.378
Both teams were playing hard,

857
00:39:40.378 --> 00:39:43.047
but all of a sudden,
they're coming up with steals

858
00:39:43.047 --> 00:39:45.583
and they make some big plays
in front of our crowd,

859
00:39:45.583 --> 00:39:47.318
while we're going crazy.

860
00:39:47.318 --> 00:39:48.519
COMMENTATOR 1:
Two seconds left,

861
00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:50.221
and a foul cannot be called,

862
00:39:50.221 --> 00:39:54.725
and, so, the 12th seed
Lady Griz of Montana fall...

863
00:39:54.725 --> 00:39:56.026
MAN: In college basketball,

864
00:39:56.026 --> 00:39:58.462
the yardstick of success
is simple,

865
00:39:58.462 --> 00:39:59.930
the NCAA tournament,

866
00:40:00.831 --> 00:40:04.034
to play, or a chance to win.

867
00:40:04.034 --> 00:40:06.837
But the odds of winning
at all are long,

868
00:40:06.837 --> 00:40:12.343
and so, successful,
even historic seasons
end in defeat.

869
00:40:12.343 --> 00:40:15.880
ROBIN: I have more memories,
precious memories
of locker rooms

870
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:19.283
after tough losses, I think,
than I do after big victories.

871
00:40:22.052 --> 00:40:25.189
Who in life has
not had setbacks?
Everybody has.

872
00:40:25.189 --> 00:40:29.894
You quickly
become a failure in sports
if you can't handle setbacks.

873
00:40:29.894 --> 00:40:33.030
'Cause you give up.
We lose a game
we can't get it back.

874
00:40:33.030 --> 00:40:34.298
We can't dwell on that.

875
00:40:34.298 --> 00:40:35.699
What you have is the next one.

876
00:40:38.969 --> 00:40:41.872
SHADRA ROBISON: As much
as you think those
first couple of years

877
00:40:41.872 --> 00:40:43.040
of playing college basketball,

878
00:40:43.040 --> 00:40:45.042
that it's about
the wins and losses,

879
00:40:45.042 --> 00:40:46.710
it's about the person
you become.

880
00:40:53.818 --> 00:40:56.153
My dad died September
of my sophomore year.

881
00:41:00.524 --> 00:41:03.794
And I went home for the funeral
and I remember

882
00:41:03.794 --> 00:41:06.730
this very packed church
and there were two extra rows

883
00:41:06.730 --> 00:41:09.233
that were, like,
right behind my family.

884
00:41:09.233 --> 00:41:10.468
And I was like,
"Who are those for?"

885
00:41:10.468 --> 00:41:12.102
It's like,
"Your team is coming."

886
00:41:12.102 --> 00:41:15.639
And like very last minute,
in the snow,
in walks all of them,

887
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:18.609
my coaches and, and they...

888
00:41:20.411 --> 00:41:22.446
They all came
and were so supportive.

889
00:41:22.446 --> 00:41:26.884
JULIE TONKIAnd Rob
made sure that
every Lady Griz on that team

890
00:41:26.884 --> 00:41:28.819
went to Gardiner
to be with Laura.

891
00:41:28.819 --> 00:41:31.689
I know that I didn't play
very well that year.

892
00:41:31.689 --> 00:41:34.458
That was just
a very difficult year.

893
00:41:34.458 --> 00:41:37.928
Um, but they were there.

894
00:41:37.928 --> 00:41:40.364
I mean,
I wasn't injured physically,

895
00:41:40.364 --> 00:41:43.467
but it was... you knew that
they wanted the best for me,

896
00:41:43.467 --> 00:41:46.637
that they would
take care of me,
and they all did.

897
00:42:04.855 --> 00:42:08.792
The Lady Griz-Bobcat rivalry
is an iconic rivalry.

898
00:42:08.792 --> 00:42:09.994
Everyone comes to it.

899
00:42:09.994 --> 00:42:11.562
Everyone all over
the state knows about it.

900
00:42:11.562 --> 00:42:13.297
It's not just
Bozeman and Missoula.

901
00:42:13.297 --> 00:42:16.467
Nobody wants to say
you were a Lady Griz
and you lost to the Cats.

902
00:42:16.467 --> 00:42:20.404
Until you experience it,
you really don't know
how to explain it.

903
00:42:20.404 --> 00:42:21.805
INTERVIEWER: Anything else
you'd wanna say?

904
00:42:21.805 --> 00:42:24.141
-Go Cats. [LAUGHS] Just kidding.
-MAN: Oh, boo!

905
00:42:24.141 --> 00:42:26.110
It's a crazy rivalry
in this state.

906
00:42:26.110 --> 00:42:29.947
I'd be lying to say
it's not a game I'd probably get
a little more nervous for,

907
00:42:29.947 --> 00:42:31.315
and I probably
want to win little more.

908
00:42:31.315 --> 00:42:33.617
You know, I don't think
he lost a game

909
00:42:33.617 --> 00:42:35.419
for 15 years against
the Bobcats.

910
00:42:35.419 --> 00:42:38.389
You know that this game
is going to be televised
throughout the state.

911
00:42:38.389 --> 00:42:41.191
So it's that game
on everybody's radar
in the state.

912
00:42:41.191 --> 00:42:43.561
I don't care what other sports,
what other levels,

913
00:42:43.561 --> 00:42:45.829
there is not anything like this.

914
00:42:53.370 --> 00:42:55.306
[CROWD CHEERING]

915
00:42:55.306 --> 00:42:58.342
BINFORD: I remember when
we won in the Field House
for the first time,

916
00:42:58.342 --> 00:42:59.910
I got a phone call
on my office phone,

917
00:42:59.910 --> 00:43:02.146
and when I picked up,
I was really surprised.

918
00:43:02.146 --> 00:43:04.114
That was Rob on the other end,

919
00:43:04.114 --> 00:43:06.917
just talking about
what a great game
that was for the crowd

920
00:43:06.917 --> 00:43:09.253
and the fans
and I'm like, "Who does that?"

921
00:43:09.253 --> 00:43:12.756
And I just think the respect,
the character of that

922
00:43:12.756 --> 00:43:16.327
is just a lesson for all coaches
and all players.

923
00:43:22.933 --> 00:43:26.971
SPELT2015, they're in
the Big Sky Conference
tournament final,

924
00:43:26.971 --> 00:43:29.239
Montana's playing
Northern Colorado.

925
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:32.676
Tough game. Down 14
with 15 minutes left.

926
00:43:32.676 --> 00:43:34.178
[CROWD CHEERING]

927
00:43:34.178 --> 00:43:37.815
We were down and it was just
painful to watch.

928
00:43:37.815 --> 00:43:38.983
McCALLE FELLER:
Rob is on the floor,

929
00:43:38.983 --> 00:43:40.484
is like kicking and screaming,

930
00:43:40.484 --> 00:43:41.852
energy's up.

931
00:43:41.852 --> 00:43:44.455
I remember our seniors
started making shots.

932
00:43:58.035 --> 00:43:59.737
[FINAL BUZZER SOUNDS]

933
00:44:02.106 --> 00:44:06.777
SPELTZ:    Montana comes back
and wins that game
on grit and hustle.

934
00:44:06.777 --> 00:44:09.780
That's when you believe
there's something more here

935
00:44:09.780 --> 00:44:12.182
than just X's and O's
and making adjustments.

936
00:44:12.182 --> 00:44:14.885
There's a belief
that's something special.

937
00:44:17.821 --> 00:44:19.623
ROBIN:    Just think about it.

938
00:44:19.623 --> 00:44:22.226
Had that been in an empty gym,
would it have been
quite as special?

939
00:44:22.226 --> 00:44:24.595
No, 'cause things
that are special

940
00:44:24.595 --> 00:44:27.064
are special because
you get to share them.

941
00:44:50.254 --> 00:44:55.292
ANNOUNCER: The KPAX 5:30 News
starts right now
in high definition.

942
00:44:55.292 --> 00:44:57.294
Good afternoon. I'm Jill Valley.

943
00:44:57.294 --> 00:44:58.829
And I'm Dennis Bragg.

944
00:44:58.829 --> 00:45:00.931
We begin with breaking news
from the University of Montana.

945
00:45:00.931 --> 00:45:03.701
Legendary Lady Griz
basketball coach Robin Selvig

946
00:45:03.701 --> 00:45:06.937
announces today
that he's retiring after
nearly 40 years.

947
00:45:08.739 --> 00:45:10.974
HASLAM: This is a day that...

948
00:45:10.974 --> 00:45:13.243
we knew eventually would come.

949
00:45:13.243 --> 00:45:17.247
A day that certainly
didn't look forward to.

950
00:45:17.247 --> 00:45:20.584
It's never a good time
to lose Robin Selvig.

951
00:45:20.584 --> 00:45:24.321
ROBIN: For 42 years,
I've actually have been
a basketball coach.

952
00:45:24.321 --> 00:45:26.290
Now I'm gonna be
something else.

953
00:45:26.290 --> 00:45:28.125
-I know I'm not gonna
do anything for a while.
-[REPORTER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

954
00:45:28.125 --> 00:45:29.460
[CHUCKLES] Thank you.

955
00:45:29.460 --> 00:45:32.096
Um, yeah.
I mean, who knows what's ahead?

956
00:45:32.096 --> 00:45:33.530
I got some things I can do.

957
00:45:35.065 --> 00:45:38.102
ROBII was worn out,
I was tired out,

958
00:45:38.102 --> 00:45:40.904
um, emotionally,
physically, all those things.

959
00:45:40.904 --> 00:45:42.906
And I had a lot of things
going on in life

960
00:45:42.906 --> 00:45:45.709
that were different for me.

961
00:45:45.709 --> 00:45:47.077
[VOICE BREAKING] Having a...

962
00:45:49.580 --> 00:45:52.216
granddaughter has...

963
00:45:52.216 --> 00:45:53.584
I mean, that's changed me
a little bit.

964
00:45:53.584 --> 00:45:57.154
I don't want to miss out
on a lot of things with her.

965
00:46:01.792 --> 00:46:05.729
HEATHCOTE:    Well, you know,
to remain at one school
for 38 years,

966
00:46:05.729 --> 00:46:10.300
is, in the coaching profession,
almost unheard of.

967
00:46:10.300 --> 00:46:12.736
I thought they'd have to
take him out on a gurney

968
00:46:12.736 --> 00:46:17.541
before they got rid of Robin
at University of Montana.

969
00:46:17.541 --> 00:46:21.411
STAGHe kept every assistant
the same for the 38 years.

970
00:46:21.411 --> 00:46:23.247
On that, people come and say,

971
00:46:23.247 --> 00:46:25.149
"I can see that guy
maybe 38 years.

972
00:46:25.149 --> 00:46:27.551
"But those assistants
are the same ones?"
They can't believe it.

973
00:46:27.551 --> 00:46:29.853
ROCHELEAU:    Rob was
always thinking
about our families,

974
00:46:29.853 --> 00:46:33.590
and he understood
that raising kids
and traveling was hard.

975
00:46:33.590 --> 00:46:36.193
DUCE:    Whether it was a game
or a doctor's appointment,

976
00:46:36.193 --> 00:46:39.129
super good about
letting us attend it.

977
00:46:39.129 --> 00:46:43.634
Robin was always very supportive
about us bringing our kids
with us on trips if we wanted.

978
00:46:43.634 --> 00:46:45.836
I don't think there's
a lot of places
around the country

979
00:46:45.836 --> 00:46:47.638
that had
that kind of environment.

980
00:46:47.638 --> 00:46:53.210
He let us be
good moms and so forth,
so that was a nice thing.

981
00:46:53.210 --> 00:46:55.746
ROBIN: I was blessed
to have great assistants
that all played for me.

982
00:46:55.746 --> 00:46:57.347
They all knew me.

983
00:46:57.347 --> 00:46:59.449
They all
tried to understand me.

984
00:46:59.449 --> 00:47:01.151
[CHUCKLES] Don't know
if they did.

985
00:47:01.151 --> 00:47:02.886
[INAUDIBLE]

986
00:47:02.886 --> 00:47:04.988
BINFORD: Really,
he set the standard
for the Big Sky Conference,

987
00:47:04.988 --> 00:47:06.423
and when you think
of our conference,

988
00:47:06.423 --> 00:47:09.393
he's so much of the history
of who we are.

989
00:47:09.393 --> 00:47:12.262
I think he's
challenged everybody
to recruit better,

990
00:47:12.262 --> 00:47:15.599
to perform better
on both ends of the floor.

991
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.970
You look at the wins
that Robin had under his belt
and the very few losses.

992
00:47:19.970 --> 00:47:23.674
I mean,
that's a Hall of Fame resume,
in my opinion.

993
00:47:25.042 --> 00:47:28.011
MORRILL: I think probably
what stands out to me the most

994
00:47:28.011 --> 00:47:30.647
is just how he dominated
the Big Sky Conference.

995
00:47:30.647 --> 00:47:34.718
I mean, nobody will
ever do that again.

996
00:47:34.718 --> 00:47:38.789
Nobody will dominate
a conference
like Robin Selvig did.

997
00:47:38.789 --> 00:47:43.227
HEATHCOTRob got the program
going from the ground up.

998
00:47:43.227 --> 00:47:48.198
He did not inherit
any tradition

999
00:47:48.198 --> 00:47:51.201
or, really, any players.

1000
00:47:51.201 --> 00:47:52.636
He built it himself.

1001
00:47:52.636 --> 00:47:55.239
SPELTZ: He's a Montana
original.

1002
00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:59.009
To me, he's a little bit
like John Wayne.

1003
00:48:00.444 --> 00:48:02.546
Only John Wayne
is just reading off a script.

1004
00:48:02.546 --> 00:48:04.748
Robin Selvig is a real person.

1005
00:48:04.748 --> 00:48:06.650
He created what we have today.

1006
00:48:06.650 --> 00:48:09.653
So for Montana,
he is an institution.

1007
00:48:09.653 --> 00:48:12.422
HASLAM: I don't think
I'll ever see that
in my lifetime.

1008
00:48:12.422 --> 00:48:16.159
That kind of an impact
on one institution,
as Robin Selvig's had.

1009
00:48:20.697 --> 00:48:22.332
[DOOR CREAKING]

1010
00:48:44.154 --> 00:48:45.689
ROBIN: You know,
I was the coach

1011
00:48:45.689 --> 00:48:48.592
and I was big part
of this program,
a part of it.

1012
00:48:48.592 --> 00:48:51.194
But the players
deserve the credit.

1013
00:48:51.695 --> 00:48:53.063
It's their team.

1014
00:48:53.063 --> 00:48:55.465
I never wanted
to overshadow that.

1015
00:48:55.465 --> 00:48:57.134
Plus, if we lost,
I wanted to blame them.

1016
00:48:57.134 --> 00:48:58.602
No, that's not true. [CHUCKLES]

1017
00:49:01.138 --> 00:49:02.539
For 40 minutes,

1018
00:49:02.539 --> 00:49:04.374
I think from one end
of our bench to the other,

1019
00:49:04.374 --> 00:49:06.376
that's all the players
and the coaches,

1020
00:49:06.376 --> 00:49:07.544
you're just in a shell.

1021
00:49:07.544 --> 00:49:10.580
It's a world of our own
for 40 minutes.

1022
00:49:10.580 --> 00:49:13.150
And that intensity
and that togetherness

1023
00:49:13.150 --> 00:49:17.487
that... you know,
just striving for one thing,

1024
00:49:17.487 --> 00:49:19.489
which is to be our best
and win that game,

1025
00:49:19.489 --> 00:49:20.891
it always was a family thing.

1026
00:49:20.891 --> 00:49:23.226
You do things together.
You share things together.

1027
00:49:23.226 --> 00:49:26.830
Good things, bad things,
wins, losses, laugh, joke.

1028
00:49:26.830 --> 00:49:29.166
I mean, they're just
a big part of your life,

1029
00:49:29.166 --> 00:49:30.567
which is what your family is.

1030
00:49:31.368 --> 00:49:34.037
To the fans, I'd say thank you.

1031
00:49:34.037 --> 00:49:36.907
You made this
a special place to be,

1032
00:49:36.907 --> 00:49:40.043
not just for me,
but for all those ladies.

1033
00:49:40.043 --> 00:49:42.713
It wouldn't have happened,
if nobody cared to come watch,

1034
00:49:42.713 --> 00:49:44.114
didn't make a difference
how good we were.

1035
00:50:02.866 --> 00:50:04.001
Hey!

1036
00:50:04.001 --> 00:50:06.136
-You're outnumbered.
-I am outnumbered.

1037
00:50:06.136 --> 00:50:07.938
[ALL CHEERING]

1038
00:50:07.938 --> 00:50:08.939
Oh!

1039
00:50:08.939 --> 00:50:10.707
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

1040
00:50:14.211 --> 00:50:17.014
We all came
to wish you well in retirement.

1041
00:50:17.014 --> 00:50:18.081
It's pretty nice.

1042
00:50:18.081 --> 00:50:19.783
That's quite a curl here.

1043
00:50:19.783 --> 00:50:21.651
ROBISON: A lot of people
think college sports

1044
00:50:21.651 --> 00:50:24.888
is just about the sport,
just about basketball.

1045
00:50:24.888 --> 00:50:28.191
Rob made sure
we were gonna
grow into women

1046
00:50:28.191 --> 00:50:30.460
that would have an impact.

1047
00:50:30.460 --> 00:50:35.265
Rob would be devastated
if all we did was say,
"We played basketball."

1048
00:50:35.265 --> 00:50:38.735
GUNDLACIf you had
made the big mosaic
of all the different faces,

1049
00:50:40.370 --> 00:50:43.306
it makes me so proud
to be one of them.

1050
00:50:43.306 --> 00:50:47.611
It's this sisterhood,
this community,

1051
00:50:47.611 --> 00:50:49.980
this feeling
of being very proud,

1052
00:50:49.980 --> 00:50:51.715
even though
I'm not from Montana.

1053
00:50:51.715 --> 00:50:55.986
You come in as individuals,
but you really leave

1054
00:50:55.986 --> 00:50:58.855
a part of each other
and a part
of each other's lives.

1055
00:50:58.855 --> 00:51:00.657
[ALL LAUGHING]

1056
00:51:00.657 --> 00:51:02.592
I hope everybody
brought the kids.

1057
00:51:04.661 --> 00:51:06.863
MORRILL: I find that
utterly amazing

1058
00:51:06.863 --> 00:51:11.068
that that many players
made it back for a celebration.

1059
00:51:11.068 --> 00:51:13.537
To have that kind
of relationship
with your players

1060
00:51:13.537 --> 00:51:16.540
is very unique
and very, very special.

1061
00:51:18.041 --> 00:51:19.876
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

1062
00:51:19.876 --> 00:51:21.244
Hollie.

1063
00:51:21.244 --> 00:51:22.846
EDWARDS: He loved each
and every one of us.

1064
00:51:22.846 --> 00:51:24.481
And you just
wanted to make him proud.

1065
00:51:24.481 --> 00:51:26.083
You didn't wanna let him down.

1066
00:51:26.083 --> 00:51:28.285
I still don't to this day,
and I'm 32 years old.

1067
00:51:28.285 --> 00:51:31.054
-Hey, how are you?
-Good. How are you?

1068
00:51:31.054 --> 00:51:33.690
-Great. This is...
This is amazing.
-It is.

1069
00:51:33.690 --> 00:51:34.891
Holy smokes.

1070
00:51:35.625 --> 00:51:36.626
Oh!

1071
00:51:38.462 --> 00:51:39.629
[INAUDIBLE]

1072
00:51:41.131 --> 00:51:43.567
FRANCE:    The early Lady Griz
basketball players

1073
00:51:43.567 --> 00:51:45.702
inspired other generations
of students,

1074
00:51:45.702 --> 00:51:49.372
and we take for granted
that every young girl
has opportunities.

1075
00:51:49.372 --> 00:51:51.842
But it wasn't that long ago
that many people

1076
00:51:51.842 --> 00:51:53.510
didn't have those
same opportunities.

1077
00:51:53.510 --> 00:51:58.181
JANE:    What's amazing to me
is to see these girls

1078
00:51:58.181 --> 00:52:04.921
have grown into confident,
strong, successful women.

1079
00:52:04.921 --> 00:52:10.193
They have so much more
confidence in themselves

1080
00:52:10.193 --> 00:52:14.364
than I ever dreamed,
you know, for myself
growing up in my era.

1081
00:52:15.365 --> 00:52:17.000
-Here we go.
-WOMAN: Here we go.

1082
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:19.402
Front row. One, two...

1083
00:52:19.402 --> 00:52:22.606
-Again. One, two...
-[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

1084
00:52:22.606 --> 00:52:27.144
BUEHLER: It was
a huge thing for me
just to have somebody say,

1085
00:52:27.144 --> 00:52:28.912
"We believe in you,"

1086
00:52:28.912 --> 00:52:32.582
and that probably
changed the trajectory
of my life incredibly

1087
00:52:32.582 --> 00:52:34.217
just having that opportunity.

1088
00:52:34.217 --> 00:52:40.357
And I still feel as much
a part of the Lady Griz
as I ever did.

1089
00:52:40.357 --> 00:52:42.826
And it's been 35 years.

1090
00:52:44.794 --> 00:52:47.430
SCHLIMGEN: You know,
I'll never forget the day
my husband died,

1091
00:52:47.430 --> 00:52:50.767
the first people that showed up
to my house were teammates.

1092
00:52:50.767 --> 00:52:53.403
And I didn't even
call them, you know?

1093
00:52:54.237 --> 00:52:56.206
I don't know how they found out.

1094
00:52:56.206 --> 00:53:00.210
I don't have sisters,
but these are the closest things
to sisters that I have.

1095
00:53:00.210 --> 00:53:02.212
EDWARDS: Lady Griz
is a family unit

1096
00:53:02.212 --> 00:53:06.516
because, like all families,
it's dysfunctional at times.

1097
00:53:06.516 --> 00:53:11.621
But they're loyal
and committed, and supportive
even when things get tough.

1098
00:53:17.394 --> 00:53:23.400
We share, you know,
our deepest, darkest, happiest,
saddest moments with each other,

1099
00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:25.001
and it's been a true...

1100
00:53:25.001 --> 00:53:27.504
just true friendships
that will last forever.

1101
00:53:33.376 --> 00:53:35.679
WOMAN: Robin asked me
one day after he retired,

1102
00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:39.849
Rob said, "Who am I?"
Who am I now?"

1103
00:53:39.849 --> 00:53:44.955
And I said,
you are forever our coach.

1104
00:53:45.989 --> 00:53:47.791
[ALL CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]

1105
00:53:47.791 --> 00:53:49.793
ROBIN: Well, I got
no chance here.

1106
00:53:49.793 --> 00:53:51.361
[ALL LAUGHING]

1107
00:53:52.495 --> 00:53:54.564
No, seriously,
I got no chance here.

1108
00:53:54.564 --> 00:53:57.267
Um, I'll probably fall off this.

1109
00:53:57.267 --> 00:53:58.768
[ALL CHEERING]

1110
00:53:58.768 --> 00:54:01.871
I told you I was athletic,
but I was just telling you.

1111
00:54:03.673 --> 00:54:05.875
I gotta make a joke
so I don't start crying.

1112
00:54:07.644 --> 00:54:08.979
[VOICE BREAKING] I've, uh...

1113
00:54:10.814 --> 00:54:13.984
I got a great memory
and a great story

1114
00:54:13.984 --> 00:54:17.721
from every face
and everybody I see here.

1115
00:54:17.721 --> 00:54:21.691
I don't know.
We won a lot of games.
That's fine. That was fun.

1116
00:54:21.691 --> 00:54:23.326
But I don't...

1117
00:54:23.326 --> 00:54:26.229
I really don't remember
that that much.

1118
00:54:26.229 --> 00:54:28.331
But I remember all of you.

1119
00:54:28.331 --> 00:54:34.170
I remember, you all,
in your way,
made my life better.

1120
00:54:35.338 --> 00:54:37.607
There was not a better
decision in my life,

1121
00:54:37.607 --> 00:54:40.210
not a better break in my life

1122
00:54:40.210 --> 00:54:43.647
than that day
when I got into coaching
women's basketball.

1123
00:54:43.647 --> 00:54:48.351
'Cause you guys
truly are as competitive

1124
00:54:48.351 --> 00:54:51.955
and talented, and athletic,

1125
00:54:51.955 --> 00:54:54.724
and wanting to be your best

1126
00:54:54.724 --> 00:54:57.427
and took advantage
of that opportunity
to be your best.

1127
00:54:57.427 --> 00:54:59.362
I couldn't,
no matter what level,

1128
00:54:59.362 --> 00:55:02.565
no matter what...
gender I was coaching,

1129
00:55:02.565 --> 00:55:04.301
it couldn't have been better.

1130
00:55:04.301 --> 00:55:07.504
And so I'm a pretty
happy man and...

1131
00:55:07.504 --> 00:55:09.372
And you made me
a lot happier tonight.

1132
00:55:09.372 --> 00:55:11.341
Thank you for being here.
I love you.

1133
00:55:11.341 --> 00:55:12.809
[ALL CHEERING]

1134
00:55:25.288 --> 00:55:27.057
WOMAN 1: I'm a regulatory
affairs specialist.

1135
00:55:27.057 --> 00:55:28.525
WOMAN 2:
I'm a sports broadcaster.

1136
00:55:28.525 --> 00:55:29.993
WOMAN 3: I am an attorney.

1137
00:55:29.993 --> 00:55:31.494
WOMAN 4: I am a pharmaceutical
sales representative.

1138
00:55:31.494 --> 00:55:32.929
WOMAN 5: I am a nurse.

1139
00:55:32.929 --> 00:55:34.764
WOMAN 6: I work
as a legal assistant.

1140
00:55:34.764 --> 00:55:35.999
WOMAN 7: I'm a math teacher.

1141
00:55:35.999 --> 00:55:37.567
WOMAN 8: I am
a chemistry teacher.

1142
00:55:37.567 --> 00:55:38.868
WOMAN 9:
I am a pediatric dietician.

1143
00:55:38.868 --> 00:55:39.903
WOMAN 1Massage therapist.

1144
00:55:39.903 --> 00:55:40.637
WOMAN 11:
Healthcare administrator

1145
00:55:40.637 --> 00:55:41.971
WOMAN 12:
I'm a stay-at-home mom.

1146
00:55:41.971 --> 00:55:43.106
WOMAN 13:
I am a commercial banker.

1147
00:55:43.106 --> 00:55:44.507
WOMAN 14:
I am a mental health therapist.

1148
00:55:44.507 --> 00:55:45.775
WOMAN 15:    I am a filmmaker.

1149
00:55:45.775 --> 00:55:47.143
WOMAN 16: I'm a women's
basketball coach.

1150
00:55:47.143 --> 00:55:48.912
WOMAN 17: I was assistant coach
for 32 years.

1151
00:55:48.912 --> 00:55:51.081
WOMAN 1I'm the new
head coach of the Lady Griz.

1152
00:56:01.157 --> 00:56:04.494
ROBIN: One of the things
Jud said one day
in practices was I...

1153
00:56:04.494 --> 00:56:05.962
"You play like a girl."

1154
00:56:05.962 --> 00:56:08.331
And I didn't realize it
at the time

1155
00:56:08.331 --> 00:56:10.133
he was giving me
a great compliment,

1156
00:56:10.133 --> 00:56:12.102
which I realize today

1157
00:56:12.102 --> 00:56:13.203
after coaching girls

1158
00:56:13.203 --> 00:56:14.337
for a lot of years,

1159
00:56:14.337 --> 00:56:15.405
that that was

1160
00:56:15.405 --> 00:56:16.773
a really good compliment.

1161
00:56:25.648 --> 00:56:28.017
[MUSIC PLAYING]