There they stood, sweaty shoulder to sweaty shoulder, forming a circle around their coach.
With just more than three minutes remaining in the third quarter of the 2025 Continental Athletic Conference women’s basketball championship game, Haskell Indian Nations University trailed Northern New Mexico College by eight points. Coach Adam Strom called a timeout and, without asking, looked around and immediately saw all eyes were locked in on him. Heads nodded in agreement as he told his players and staff that this wouldn’t be the last time they were together on a court — that they had more ahead.
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“I felt like we were as tight as we could be around him,”
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