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Marisa Moseley was back home, wielding more responsibility and more power than ever before after accepting a head-coaching job at her alma mater, Boston University. She had checked off some of the most pressing items on her to-do list, including earning her first victory, yet she didn’t sound satisfied.
“I was excited for the players more than anything,” Moseley said last month by phone, following a 72-51 win over Brown. “Obviously, winning builds confidence. The hard work they’re putting in, there’s a payoff there. I told them, we can enjoy it for tonight, but we have to get back to work and start preparing for the next game. You don’t want to them to get too high off wins or too low off losses. It’s just constantly trying to improve.”
Marisa Moseley off to a winning start at Boston University
You see, Moseley did an inordinate amount of winning in her last job, to the point where it’s practically woven into her DNA. In nine seasons as an assistant at UConn, Moseley was a part of nine Final Fours and five national championships, including four consecutive from 2013-16. But now, Moseley is cradling her own program, one that went 10-19 a season ago with three losses to Lafayette. No longer is she immersed in one of the glitz-and-glamour programs of women’s college basketball.
“There’s an adjustment, but also there’s the reality that they aren’t the same place,” she said. “I wouldn’t be here if they had won every single game coming in. You know that. The challenge more than anything is to try to get the most out of the people that we have and be prepared to try and compete in every game. If we don’t, then we have to go back and fix whatever wasn’t working.
“I was excited for the players more than anything,” Moseley said last month by phone, following a 72-51 win over Brown. “Obviously, winning builds confidence. The hard work they’re putting in, there’s a payoff there. I told them, we can enjoy it for tonight, but we have to get back to work and start preparing for the next game. You don’t want to them to get too high off wins or too low off losses. It’s just constantly trying to improve.”
Marisa Moseley off to a winning start at Boston University
You see, Moseley did an inordinate amount of winning in her last job, to the point where it’s practically woven into her DNA. In nine seasons as an assistant at UConn, Moseley was a part of nine Final Fours and five national championships, including four consecutive from 2013-16. But now, Moseley is cradling her own program, one that went 10-19 a season ago with three losses to Lafayette. No longer is she immersed in one of the glitz-and-glamour programs of women’s college basketball.
“There’s an adjustment, but also there’s the reality that they aren’t the same place,” she said. “I wouldn’t be here if they had won every single game coming in. You know that. The challenge more than anything is to try to get the most out of the people that we have and be prepared to try and compete in every game. If we don’t, then we have to go back and fix whatever wasn’t working.
