The Amy Eagan Show

Coach Eagan reviews the successful road trip to Tennessee and looks ahead to final two regular season games.

She also previews the Fashion Walk that the LUWBB team will be doing with LU fashion students before this week's Thursday game against EIU.

In this week's podcast, Coach Eagan reviews two important home wins as her squad works to secure a double-bye in the OVC tournament in Evansville, IN during the first week of March.

She also shared her teams Fall 2025 cume GPA of 3.5.  4 players reported grades of 4.0.

Finally, Coach Eagan talked about the first ever Fashion Walk for her young women.  Working with Dr. Chajuana Trawick from Lindenwood's fashion program, the players will sport their own fashion tastes along with accessories provided by the LU fashion design students.  The players will be recorded as the enter Hyland arena a few hours before the 5:00 p.m. final home game of the year against Eastern Illinois University.

Coach Eagan reviews recent games against SIU-E and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

She also discusses how she gave her team some time to recover from a grueling stretch of 4 games in 7 days.

With 6 games remaining in the OVC regular season, Coach Eagan talks about how she prepares her team for this final stretch before the OVC tournament.

Coach Eagan reviews the two road games at USI and Moorehead State.

She notes how both Gracie Kelsey and Aleshia Jones made some big plays during the final minute of the USI game.

This week the Lions host SIUE on Tuesday night and travel to Little Rock AR for a Thursday night game.

Coach Eagan takes us through where her team is at the half-way point of the conference season.

It includes a review of the 17 straight free throws here team made of the past two games.

She also steps listeners through the details of what it is like to take an NCAA DI women's basketball team on the road for 2 games.  It is an important perspective to have for 18–22-year-old student athletes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coach Eagan invited two of her players, Alyssa Nielsen and Anna McCarn onto the show.  We talk with them about both the cultural and basketball experience during their Hawaii trip over Thanksgiving weekend.  Each also gives a holiday shout out to friends and family.  They also talk about their expectations for this Saturday's game against the University of Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Coach gives us a preview of the upcoming games.  In addition to the Iowa game, she looks ahead to the first two OVC games against Western Illinois University and Eastern Illinois University next week.

Coach talks about the basketball success of her team's Thanksgiving weekend tournament trip to Hawaii.  She also shares the 'college experience' her players had in Hawaii.

After a very quick turnaround, her team won big on the road at Drake University.

Plus much more.