Oklahoma State coach Jacie Hoyt gets Women's March Madness win, starts scouting UCLA
Cowgirls head coach Jacie Hoyt reflected on her journey in the aftermath of her first career March Madness win. She also thanked UCLA coach Cori Close.
LOS ANGELES — The two other times Oklahoma State women's basketball head coach Jacie Hoyt was at the podium to speak to the media following a first-round March Madness game, it was after a defeat. When she returned to the dais on Saturday after the dust settled on the Cowgirls’ 82-68 win over Princeton — the first March Madness win of Hoyt’s career — she took a moment to reflect. “It's been a long time coming,” Hoyt, in her fourth season as head coach, said.
“I'm so competitive. I want to win every game and it’s never been enough for me to just get here. I want to win.
That's the expectation that I have for myself. “No one will ever have a higher expectation for me than me, and this just feels so good to get that monkey off my back, and I'm so proud of our team and I'm grateful for a team that brought me here. ” There’s not much time to cherish the moment, though, as Oklahoma State is set to square off against No.
1 seed UCLA on Monday (10 p. m. ET, ESPN) at Pauley Pavilion.