Former head women's coach at UT-Dallas and Hartford, now head coach at Randolph, Polly Thomason talks with Ryan Scott about the adjustment to coaching in three different parts of the country, taking over a program that is on the upswing, and the need for D-III women's basketball teams to have more access to use male practice players.

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