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[HuskylnSC]

The Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens basket ball team.

• The Wayland Team is the winningest team in women's college basketball. In the 2017-18 season, the Flying Queens have posted over 1600 wins, around 300 more wins than the nearest competitors.
• The Wayland Team has won 19 National Championships.
• The Wayland Team won 131 consecutive games

It's always good to have a challenge.

 

[Centerstream]

The Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens basket ball team.

• The Wayland Team is the winningest team in women's college basketball. In the 2017-18 season, the Flying Queens have posted over 1600 wins, around 300 more wins than the nearest competitors.
• The Wayland Team has won 19 National Championships.
• The Wayland Team won 131 consecutive games

It's always good to have a challenge.

I guess I could Google this but it's the BY, so...how many different coaches were involved in the 1600 wins, 19 NCs and 131 consecutive wins?
Are they still an active WBB program?

 

[SVCBeercats]

I guess I could Google this but it's the BY, so...how many different coaches were involved in the 1600 wins, 19 NCs and 131 consecutive wins?
Are they still an active WBB program?

The Wayland women's team (not a DI team) has had 13 coaches:

1. Sam Allen (1947–48 through 1950–1951; 1952–53). Record: 71–28
2. Hank Garland (1951–52). Record: 30–10
3. Caddo Matthews (1953–54 through 1954–55). Record: 52–0 (52 games of the 131 game winning streak)
4. Harley Redin (1955–56 through 1972–73). Record: 429–63 (79 games of the 131 game winning streak)
5. Dean Weese (1973–74 through 1978–79). Record: 190–30 (Left Wayland to coach the Dallas Diamonds in the Women's Professional Basketball League)
6. Cathy Wilson (1979–80 through 1982–83). Record: 80–50
7. Dave Ketterman (1983–84 through Dec 1985–86 season). Record: 65–17
8. Floyd Evans (January 1985 – 1986 through 1988–89). Record: 106–21
9. Sheryl Estes (1989–90 through 1995–96). Record: 183–62
10. Johnna Pointer (1996–97 through 2002–2003). Record: 151–84
11. Will Flemons (2003–04 through 2006–07). Record: 53–65
12. Tory Bryant (2007–08 through 2012–13). Record: 96–89
13. Alesha Robertson Ellis (2013–2014 through present). Record from 2013–14 through 2017–18: 114–43

 

[Plebe]

I posted this to the Boneyard back in 2017 (here); it's a truly fascinating read about the juggernaut that was the Flying Queens of Wayland Baptist.

https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/womens-basketball/article141541279.html

 

[HuskylnSC]

I guess I could Google this but it's the BY, so...how many different coaches were involved in the 1600 wins, 19 NCs and 131 consecutive wins?
Are they still an active WBB program?

that's a good point about the coaches, but Geno has already beaten all of the coaches involved. I should have not made the title about Geno but said 'We've got a ways to go." They are still active they are an NAIA and I believe their website said they are rated 2nd in the nation. But don't quote me. I didn't dally there too long. The numbers are from the WBB hall of Fame which has an exhibit about the 'Flying Queens'

 

[DefenseBB]

Have any of the coaches gone on to higher echelons of the coaching ranks? I don't recognize any names (not that I am a guru of coaching trivia). What say you our "ole Perfessor @Plebe"?

 

[SVCBeercats]

Have any of the coaches gone on to higher echelons of the coaching ranks? I don't recognize any names (not that I am a guru of coaching trivia). What say you our "ole Perfessor @Plebe"?

Since its opening in 1999, 10 individuals with ties to Wayland Baptist basketball, and the 1953-58 Flying Queens teams, have been inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn. In 2018, Harley Redin was a co-recipient of the John Bunn Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball of Fame. Redin was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. Dean Weese was inducted in 2002. I have to mention Joe Lombard, a former Pioneer player, but not a Wayland women's basketball coach. His record is on the high school level but WHAT A RECORD! With close to 1,300 victories, a winning percentage of almost 92 percent, and 19 state championships (in addition to seven cross country state titles), Lombard is one of the winningest high school basketball coaches in the country. He's been named National High School Coach of the Year three times and has been inducted into no fewer than six halls of fame, including the National Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

wbuathletics.com

Lombard learned in year #1 of his coaching career never to use a platoon system ever again if winning is your goal. Just play your best players. Participation throphy holders need not apply. 'Lombard’s system early on was to platoon his players, but after losing that first game it didn’t take him long to change his way. “I’ve never done (platooned) that again,” Lombard said. “From that point on, I got the idea that you play your best kids.”' Cool fact: when Lombard won his first Class A state championship; his wife Babs' won her first Class 2A state championship.

‘Path to the Hall’ - Lombard’s system produces state titles in Canyon • The Canyon News

By TIM RITTER When it comes to high school girls’ basketball in the state of Texas, all eyes are on the Canyon Lady Eagles and their soon-to-be Hall of Fame head coach Joe Lombard. The driving force behind 17 state championships for the Lady Eagles since his arrival to Canyon in 1985, Lombard’s...

www.canyonnews.com

 

[JellyBean]

Pretty impressive

 

[CL82]

If you really want a target for Connecticut to shoot for after after Geno sets the record for most wins by woman’s basketball college coach, I’d suggest this one:

Most wins by a woman’s basketball college team

Some interesting facts:

• No team on this list has more wins per season than UConn. The Huskies have racked up 1,155 wins in just 46 seasons — an average of 25.1 per year.
• Before the 2018-19 season, UConn was the only team in DI women’s basketball with more than 1,000 wins and fewer than 300 losses. The Huskies went 35-3 last year, pushing their total losses from 298 to 301.

 

[MSGRET]

If you really want a target for Connecticut to shoot for after after Geno sets the record for most wins by woman’s basketball college coach, I’d suggest this one:

Most wins by a woman’s basketball college team

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Some interesting facts:

• No team on this list has more wins per season than UConn. The Huskies have racked up 1,155 wins in just 46 seasons — an average of 25.1 per year.
• Before the 2018-19 season, UConn was the only team in DI women’s basketball with more than 1,000 wins and fewer than 300 losses. The Huskies went 35-3 last year, pushing their total losses from 298 to 301.

Geno has 1,091 of those 1,155 wins and only 142 of the losses. Which is he has 94.5% of the wins and only 47% of the losses in his 35 years as the coach. In the 11 years that he wasn't a coach UConn had only one winning season and had 64 and 159 record. Another angle to look at is Geno had only one losing season and lost a total of 81 games before guided UConn to their first National Championship, his record up to his first NC was 192 - 81, since then his record is 899 - 61. It proves that he is the GOAT of WCBB.

 

[JonathanXIV]

Geno has 1,091 of those 1,155 wins and only 142 of the losses. Which is he has 94.5% of the wins and only 47% of the losses in his 35 years as the coach. In the 11 years that he wasn't a coach UConn had only one winning season and had 64 and 159 record. Another angle to look at is Geno had only one losing season and lost a total of 81 games before guided UConn to their first National Championship, his record up to his first NC was 192 - 81, since then his record is 899 - 61. It proves that he is the GOAT of WCBB.

899-61 over a quarter century should simply not be possible.

 

[Steelerone]

Just think about how much better The Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens basket ball team would have been had Geno been coaching them.