Longtime Pensacola State basketball fans will remember Sandy Rigby.

She found incredible success as head coach of the women's team from 2005 to 2012.

She's now producing a consistent winner on the Division one level at Troy.

And part of that is an annual return to Pensacola for the Sunbelt Conference tournament.

That's where we caught up with Coach Rigby to reminisce about her days at PSC.

We're here with Shana Rigby, head basketball coach, Detroit, back to Pensacola for her annual visit for the Sunbelt Conference tournament.

So when you come back, what are the other good vibes when you come back to Pensacola?

It literally is everything you think of coming back home.

That's what it feels like to me.

My husband's from Pensacola.

We raised our two boys here while I coach at Pensacola State.

My husband coached at Tate High School and we have so many friends and families here.

Doctor Traylor, the pastor at all church.

I was talking to him on the way here.

He's coming to our games a lot of times.

Doctor Ed Meadows, president of Pensacola State, comes to our games.

So it's just a great time to see old friends.

You had an incredible run when you were the coach, and then PJC, you ramped up the success last two years, 63 and six, in the last two years.

Final four national final for both years.

What was so special about that run?

It was special.

Being in Pensacola.

It was almost like a lifelong dream of mine to get to come to Pensacola.

And it was wonderful being here.

The level of competition.

We played well at Pensacola State in that Panhandle Conference, which was known as the best women's basketball league in the nation.

They really pushed me to be to be my best my first two years.

If you look at my record, it wasn't that great.

And I was getting beat by Gulf Coast, which was number one in the nation, but sometimes 60 or 70 points and getting beat like that.

It gets you to change a lot of your philosophies and it made me a better coach.

So what a lot of I mean, you build up to incredible success.

So what came together, you think within the school, within the ladies, you got to come there.

What came together to make it, to make that kind of success?

Well, a lot of good support.

And, Bill Hamilton was our outlet IT director at that time.

And a lot of great support in the in the community.

Nobody has that much success alone.

And so we had great instructors, great administration, and everybody just got behind the program and it made it a wonderful experience.

So you're now 13 season at Troy.

You build extending success there.

So how much did the PSC prepare you for what you, the success of the ball?

Well, it lay the groundwork for everything.

Because when I was at, Pensacola State College, I was in the business of when my players finished playing for me, helping them go on to Division one schools and get re recruited, and what I would find when they would go to LSU or Alabama or Florida and they would call back and I would think, man, they're living the life.

And there's big division ones.

I would say we miss Pensacola State.

We like the we love the culture there.

And so I took what, kind of built at Pensacola State as far as the family atmosphere, eating almost every meal together, being together, studying together.

And I'll move that to the division one level.

And so we operate in a lot of ways, like a junior college, like it was at Pensacola State, where we have such a close knit family bond, and it pays off at times like this.

When you're when you're in a championship tournament often.

But when you come back for this tournament, you always get a lot of Pensacola.

Love a lot of Pensacola folks here cheering for you.

How special was that to see?

The love is still here.

I just I just feel like it's a big warm hug that I get to come do the thing I love and compete for the biggest stage that I can, you know, compete on, which is a chamber ship, and get to do it in front of so many people I love.

And in this environment, even though every time I come back, Pensacola has grown with leaps and bounds, it still feels like home on.

the Pirates.

Players of the month.

Bring us some clutch moments and a history maker to remember.

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The clutch three pointer gave the Pirates critical breathing room and they went on to win the coveted title.

Savage, a sophomore guard from Illinois helping Pena's crew earn the program's first regional and state championship in 33 years and secure a trip to the junior college national tournament.

PSC baseball tied with rival Northwest Florida in extra innings.

When Caden Wilkes ends it.

The timely base hit brings in Mason Anata with a game winning run in the 10th inning.

Wilkes, a redshirt freshman from Hendersonville, Tennessee, produces a walk off good time at Pirates Field.