Just FYI - I did write to the folks who compile the NCAA records:
I am curious to know why Uconn Women’s basketball is listed with a date of origin of 1983 when the program was a member of the BE conference from 1979-1980 and prior to that a member of the Yankee conference from 1975-76. This appears to leave out 72 wins from your Uconn program totals, while under-reporting the losses, and over-reporting the program winning percentages.
In checking your statistics for coaches it appears you have only recorded three of the years Jean Balthaser coached though you include a fourth year 1981-2 in your records for Uconn as an NCAA D1 program.
I am curious because your win totals for ODU for example are 997 prior to this year, but that is including coaching records that go back before NCAA ‘data’ and victories that date back to 1969. By those counts ODU has joined the 1000 win club but restricting Uconn data to 1983 forward leaves them short. Is this an issue regarding Uconn’s reporting to you, or something else.
And i just got this reply:
- thanks for your email. It's hard to pinpoint exactly why or where the disconnect was made. However, we rely on schools to submit data and check their records each season. Each school had an opportunity to review the records book, including coaching records, and we have not heard from UConn's sports information office related to any missing data. You're correct though that it appears some years are missing.
We will follow up with UConn and make the appropriate changes to the database. Thanks for reaching out!
If anyone has a contact at Uconn, it might not hurt to forward this query to them regarding the early years of the Uconn program - seems to bad that Jean Balthaser, Wanda Flora, and Sandra Hamm are missing or have incomplete records in the NCAA database. They were not glorious years, but they are the origins of Uconn WCBB. Also be nice to have Uconn in the books as a member of the 1000 win club.
