HuskyNan
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Carla Berube took over Div III Tufts after their 12-13 season in 2001-2002. Her first year as a head coach, Tufts was 17-7 and after that never had another losing season with her at the helm. She took Tufts to the Div III Final Four 4 times and to the championship game twice. She was the Div III National Coach of the Year in 2015. She recruited some very nice talent and was able to draw these players with no scholarships to offer. Tufts is a Baby Ivy, true, but some of the players could probably have gone to a better school or gotten a scholly at a Div II school.Carla Berube has done a phenomenal job at Princeton & can clearly coach basketball at a high level, no doubt.
Having said that & taking nothing away from her, I think Carla's recruiting there benefits from the school's elite/high Ivy educational pedigree.
There are a finite number of quality recruits every year that value education as paramount while still playing D1 ball. The Stanford advantage East, so to speak, albeit non-rarified competition.
No disrespect to our beloved Uconn, but it doesn't hold the same appeal in this regard as Princeton, Stanford, Duke, etc.-- though obviously the platinum standard in pure basketball education, achievement, & development.
Carla’s win-loss record at Tufts was 384-96 (80%) and is 43-5 at Princeton (89.6%). Sounds like a pretty good coach to me.