NCAA WBB Championships Won by Coaches

[ConnMotors]

I had to look this up because other than Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt having won multiple NCAA Women's Basketball Championships I wasn't sure about the others. Going back to the year 1982 this is how coaches stand with winning it all "The National Title". This afternoon the eventual winning coach will make history. Iowa's Lisa Bluder can earn her first title. While Kim Mulkey can move up the ladder to third all time with Four Championships. And, will also be the first coach to win a title at two different schools. I am excited to watch this game. Good luck to both teams.

11 - Geno Auriemma: 1995; 2000; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2009; 2010; 2013; 2014; 2015 2016
8 -- Pat Summitt -- Tennessee -- 1987; 1989; 1991; 1996; 1997; 1998; 2007; 2008
3 -- Tara VanDerveer -- Stanford -- 1990; 1992; 2021
3 -- Kim Mulkey -- Baylor -- 2005; 2012; 2019
2 -- Dawn Staley -- South Carolina -- 2017; 2022; 2020 Covid Yea ?????
2 -- Muffet McGraw -- Notre Dame -- 2001; 2018
2 -- Linda Sharp -- Southern Cailifornia -- 1983; 1984
1 -- Gary Blair -- Texas A&M -- 2011
1 -- Brenda Frese -- Maryland -- 2006
1 -- Caroline Peck -- Purdue -- 1999
1 -- Sylvia Hatchell -- North Carolina -- 1994
1 -- Marsha Sharp -- Texas Tech -- 1993
1 -- Leon Barmore -- Louisiana Tech -- 1988
1 -- Jody Conradt -- Texas -- 1986
1 -- Marianne Stanley -- Old Dominion -- 1985
1 -- Sonja Hogg -- Louisiana Tech -- 1982

 

[and one]

Geno's 11 is a record not likely to be broken. Geno and Pat got most of their NCs before parity began to take hold. Just like no modern coach mens coach can hope to match the extended success of Wooden. The 111 game win streak and time between consecutive losses are also almost unbreakable.

 

[JonathanXIV]

Geno's 11 is a record not likely to be broken. Geno and Pat got most of their NCs before parity began to take hold. Just like no modern coach mens coach can hope to match the extended success of Wooden. The 111 game win streak and time between consecutive losses are also almost unbreakable.

So parity began in 2017?

 

[Geew1992]

I had to look this up because other than Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt having won multiple NCAA Women's Basketball Championships I wasn't sure about the others. Going back to the year 1982 this is how coaches stand with winning it all "The National Title". This afternoon the eventual winning coach will make history. Iowa's Lisa Bluder can earn her first title. While Kim Mulkey can move up the ladder to third all time with Four Championships. And, will also be the first coach to win a title at two different schools. I am excited to watch this game. Good luck to both teams.

11 - Geno Auriemma: 1995; 2000; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2009; 2010; 2013; 2014; 2015 2016
8 -- Pat Summitt -- Tennessee -- 1987; 1989; 1991; 1996; 1997; 1998; 2007; 2008
3 -- Tara VanDerveer -- Stanford -- 1990; 1992; 2021
3 -- Kim Mulkey -- Baylor -- 2005; 2012; 2019
2 -- Dawn Staley -- South Carolina -- 2017; 2022; 2020 Covid Yea ?????
2 -- Muffet McGraw -- Notre Dame -- 2001; 2018
2 -- Linda Sharp -- Southern Cailifornia -- 1983; 1984
1 -- Gary Blair -- Texas A&M -- 2011
1 -- Brenda Frese -- Maryland -- 2006
1 -- Caroline Peck -- Purdue -- 1999
1 -- Sylvia Hatchell -- North Carolina -- 1994
1 -- Marsha Sharp -- Texas Tech -- 1993
1 -- Leon Barmore -- Louisiana Tech -- 1988
1 -- Jody Conradt -- Texas -- 1986
1 -- Marianne Stanley -- Old Dominion -- 1985
1 -- Sonja Hogg -- Louisiana Tech -- 1982

2020?? Umm… there was no tournament, no championship, no champion. SC and Dawn have 2.

 

[bovwa10]

So parity began in 2017?

I think there have certainly been other eras when there was a lot of parity in the women's game, such as the mid-2000s, but UConn was so dominant from 2013-2016 with virtually no competition outside of maybe Notre Dame. I think 2017 kickstarted a new era of parity in the women's game, which is reflected in that there hasn't been a back-to-back champion since that year. I don't think we will ever again see a wcbb team as dominant as UConn was during the Stewie years. I just don't think it's possible due to the number of great players there are now in the game.

 

[Centerstream]

2020?? Umm… there was no tournament, no championship, no champion. SC and Dawn have 2.

Exactly. The same school and coach entered this year's tournament with the same laurels and expectations. But this afternoon, they are back in Columbia and not playing in Dallas.
But they do have a banner for 2020.

 

[ConnMotors]

2020?? Umm… there was no tournament, no championship, no champion. SC and Dawn have 2.

I did write two for Dawn. I mentioned 2020 was the Covid Year. Granted I left out the R in year. But they were the Final AP #1.

 

[Geew1992]

I did write two for Dawn. I mentioned 2020 was the Covid Year. Granted I left out the R in year. But they were the Final AP #1.

The thread is championships by coaches. No one won a ship on 2020. So it shouldn’t be there. Unless you’re counting their banner

 

[JellyBean]

I think there have certainly been other eras when there was a lot of parity in the women's game, such as the mid-2000s, but UConn was so dominant from 2013-2016 with virtually no competition outside of maybe Notre Dame. I think 2017 kickstarted a new era of parity in the women's game, which is reflected in that there hasn't been a back-to-back champion since that year. I don't think we will ever again see a wcbb team as dominant as UConn was during the Stewie years. I just don't think it's possible due to the number of great players there are now in the game.

2013-16, there were plenty of teams that were solid. Baylor, Stanford, Maryland, South Carolina come to mind.

 

[Topdawg]

Geno's 11 is a record not likely to be broken. Geno and Pat got most of their NCs before parity began to take hold. Just like no modern coach mens coach can hope to match the extended success of Wooden. The 111 game win streak and time between consecutive losses are also almost unbreakable.

I believe the record will be broken by Geno when he wins #12 and more. If UConn stays healthy, the 2024 title is within reach.

 

[PJCLaw]

I had to look this up because other than Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt having won multiple NCAA Women's Basketball Championships I wasn't sure about the others. Going back to the year 1982 this is how coaches stand with winning it all "The National Title". This afternoon the eventual winning coach will make history. Iowa's Lisa Bluder can earn her first title. While Kim Mulkey can move up the ladder to third all time with Four Championships. And, will also be the first coach to win a title at two different schools. I am excited to watch this game. Good luck to both teams.

11 - Geno Auriemma: 1995; 2000; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2009; 2010; 2013; 2014; 2015 2016
8 -- Pat Summitt -- Tennessee -- 1987; 1989; 1991; 1996; 1997; 1998; 2007; 2008
3 -- Tara VanDerveer -- Stanford -- 1990; 1992; 2021
3 -- Kim Mulkey -- Baylor -- 2005; 2012; 2019
2 -- Dawn Staley -- South Carolina -- 2017; 2022; 2020 Covid Yea ?????
2 -- Muffet McGraw -- Notre Dame -- 2001; 2018
2 -- Linda Sharp -- Southern Cailifornia -- 1983; 1984
1 -- Gary Blair -- Texas A&M -- 2011
1 -- Brenda Frese -- Maryland -- 2006
1 -- Caroline Peck -- Purdue -- 1999
1 -- Sylvia Hatchell -- North Carolina -- 1994
1 -- Marsha Sharp -- Texas Tech -- 1993
1 -- Leon Barmore -- Louisiana Tech -- 1988
1 -- Jody Conradt -- Texas -- 1986
1 -- Marianne Stanley -- Old Dominion -- 1985
1 -- Sonja Hogg -- Louisiana Tech -- 1982

Like her or not, Kim Mulkey has to be in the conversation of greatest WBB coach of all time. Winning her 4th NC and at a different school, which no other WBB coach has done, has to set her apart from Tara. Geno and Pat are still the Platinum standard because of how many NCs they won, but Kim is on the next level by herself.

 

[Rowdy831]

Geno's 11 is a record not likely to be broken. Geno and Pat got most of their NCs before parity began to take hold. Just like no modern coach mens coach can hope to match the extended success of Wooden. The 111 game win streak and time between consecutive losses are also almost unbreakable.

I think the women's record could be broke because the women still play 4 years. UCONN won several in a short period of time because of a couple dominant players and they still exist and the same teams are still always near the top. It will take a top young coach being at the right place though to do it.

 

[and one]

So parity began in 2017?

Parity isn't the kind of thing that has a definite start date. It creeps up on you slowly. Well before 2017 for sure. Women's basketball teams on the whole are much better than say ten years ago. At least to my eyes. Winning a NC is harder than it used to be.

 

[bovwa10]

Parity isn't the kind of thing that has a definite start date. It creeps up on you slowly. Well before 2017 for sure. Women's basketball teams on the whole are much better than say ten years ago. At least to my eyes. Winning a NC is harder than it used to be.

Agreed, matchups are more important than ever

 

[JonathanXIV]

Parity isn't the kind of thing that has a definite start date. It creeps up on you slowly. Well before 2017 for sure. Women's basketball teams on the whole are much better than say ten years ago. At least to my eyes. Winning a NC is harder than it used to be.

Not sure I completely agree. Didn't think either team in the Finals this year were especially impressive. Certainly not anywhere near the quality of the Stewart UConn teams.

 

[bovwa10]

Not sure I completely agree. Didn't think either team in the Finals this year were especially impressive. Certainly not anywhere near the quality of the Stewart UConn teams.

That’s because the best teams this year were either upset or had major injuries to contend with. I think the quality of the Top 10-15 as a whole though is much higher now than during the Stewie years

 

[Majic Hands]

The thread is championships by coaches. No one won a ship on 2020. So it shouldn’t be there. Unless you’re counting their banner

The thread is championships by coaches. No one won a championship on 2020. So it shouldn’t be there. Unless you’re counting their banner.


There ya go. I fixed your post so I can now agree, totally.

 

[huskyd]

I did write two for Dawn. I mentioned 2020 was the Covid Year. Granted I left out the R in year. But they were the Final AP #1.

You've been reading too many of Dawn's banners if you think SC won a NC in the year of the covid shutdown. SC was #1 this season, too, and didn't win the NC, so there's no correlation between rankings and the ultimate outcome of the NCAAs. When Dawn got her 1st NC, UConn was ranked #1 and was expected to win it all but was upset in the semis. That was in a year when the Huskies had already beaten SC on its home court by double digits.
Both Kim and Dawn won NCs on the backs of 3 players: Griner, Wilson, and Boston. That represented the result of a cumulative 12 years of games (4x3). Aja never won a game vs UConn. Stewie's Huskies won 4 NCs in a third that time span.

 

[JellyBean]

Now that Coach Mulkey has four titles does she replace Tara as the number three coach?

 

[Centerstream]

Now that Coach Mulkey has four titles does she replace Tara as the number three coach?

Personally I think the coach that has the record for most wins, and is still active at a high profile school, would still be 3rd.

 

[Stinger92860]

Geno's 11 is a record not likely to be broken. Geno and Pat got most of their NCs before parity began to take hold. Just like no modern coach mens coach can hope to match the extended success of Wooden. The 111 game win streak and time between consecutive losses are also almost unbreakable.

never say never

 

[01Neaggrad02]

I still believe deep down that Oregon would have won the title in 2020... but then again I was pretty sure Iowa was going to win the other day so what do I know?

 

[01Neaggrad02]

never say never

Geno is not retired yet.... so here is to hoping that the 11 goes up to 14 or 15 before he does decide to go.

 

[UcMiami]

I think seeing 'parity' in the women's game, is a little premature. What I see is dominant teams failing to dominate. The thing Pat and Geno were able to do consistently was win championships with championship quality teams. They were also able to win a few with limited teams, and consistently challenge when they weren't dominant.

This year clearly the best team was SC and yet they bowed out for the second time in three years. Same thing happened in the Griner years at Baylor.

There have always been a few really good teams and a solid second level of teams around women's basketball, and if a Giant stumbles there is someone to pick up the pieces. Uconn wasn't the best team in WCBB in 2013, but hey, if you want to smooth the way for Geno he is ready to take the prize. They certainly weren't the best team from 2017-2022, but were able to get to the FF every year and the championship game in 2022.

And going undefeated is really hard to do. Geno said losing in the BE tournament in 2003 was a key to winning that championship - it was a pressure release from the undefeated streak. SC was looking a little tight, was being challenged in games, was having slow starts, and it caught up to them as it has to teams throughout basketball history. Pat did it once with TN, Kim did it once at Baylor, Conradt once at TX, Tara has never done it, Muffet never, Dawn never, and Geno has done it 6 times.

This year reminds me of past years where surprise finals occurred. What was Syracuse doing in a final, or Louisville, or TAM and ND, or Rutgers, or ...

 

[BRS24]

And going undefeated is really hard to do. Geno said losing in the BE tournament in 2003 was a key to winning that championship - it was a pressure release from the undefeated streak. SC was looking a little tight, was being challenged in games, was having slow starts, and it caught up to them as it has to teams throughout basketball history. Pat did it once with TN, Kim did it once at Baylor, Conradt once at TX, Tara has never done it, Muffet never, Dawn never, and Geno has done it 6 times.

When coaching youth soccer teams, there were a few players that were more focused on not losing any games, rather than being present in the game at hand. This brings to mind this year's SC team, and the balance of three things - a potential natty repeat, a potential undefeated season + natty, and the natty itself.

If a team in in the midst of an undefeated season, do they feel that pressure daily, and does that take away the focus of the ultimate goal of a national championship? There were a lot of headlines written about being undefeated, and yet every player would rather have a natty than be undefeated going into the tourney and then losing.

 

[UcMiami]

When coaching youth soccer teams, there were a few players that were more focused on not losing any games, rather than being present in the game at hand. This brings to mind this year's SC team, and the balance of three things - a potential natty repeat, a potential undefeated season + natty, and the natty itself.

If a team in in the midst of an undefeated season, do they feel that pressure daily, and does that take away the focus of the ultimate goal of a national championship? There were a lot of headlines written about being undefeated, and yet every player would rather have a natty than be undefeated going into the tourney and then losing.

I think it does become the subject of discussion and a distraction from focusing on the basketball itself and the process of preparing for each game. There is as you say the focus on 'not losing'. In a way it becomes the reason so many near upsets become defeats in the last minutes - the underdog suddenly is thinking about how great a win will be and how they must not do anything to lose from such a strong position, and stop playing to win.

At Uconn, it has often become a multi-year distraction - that 2003 teams was amassing the longest women's streak in history that reach 70 games in the semi finals, in 2017 the streak was the longest NCAA streak ever at 111 when MissSt came calling. And Maya and co. laid a complete egg at Stanford mid season to end a streak of 90. (A feat they repeated to end a 47 game streak in 2014 which probably helped in the creation of most of that 111 game streak.

 

[bovwa10]

I think seeing 'parity' in the women's game, is a little premature. What I see is dominant teams failing to dominate. The thing Pat and Geno were able to do consistently was win championships with championship quality teams. They were also able to win a few with limited teams, and consistently challenge when they weren't dominant.

This year clearly the best team was SC and yet they bowed out for the second time in three years. Same thing happened in the Griner years at Baylor.

There have always been a few really good teams and a solid second level of teams around women's basketball, and if a Giant stumbles there is someone to pick up the pieces. Uconn wasn't the best team in WCBB in 2013, but hey, if you want to smooth the way for Geno he is ready to take the prize. They certainly weren't the best team from 2017-2022, but were able to get to the FF every year and the championship game in 2022.

And going undefeated is really hard to do. Geno said losing in the BE tournament in 2003 was a key to winning that championship - it was a pressure release from the undefeated streak. SC was looking a little tight, was being challenged in games, was having slow starts, and it caught up to them as it has to teams throughout basketball history. Pat did it once with TN, Kim did it once at Baylor, Conradt once at TX, Tara has never done it, Muffet never, Dawn never, and Geno has done it 6 times.

This year reminds me of past years where surprise finals occurred. What was Syracuse doing in a final, or Louisville, or TAM and ND, or Rutgers, or ...

I actually think UConn was the best team in both 2017 and 2018 but both times succumbed to the pressure of being undefeated in the Final Four. I agree that unless you have an overwhelmingly dominant team, such as Stewie's teams, it's probably better to not go undefeated before the tournament since it takes the pressure off a bit.

 

[BBallF]

Mulkey now has 4 but you wonder why she never got to coach the National Team? I think last night's histrionics provided the answer and thankfully someone somewhere made the right decision about that.

 

[bovwa10]

Mulkey now has 4 but you wonder why she never got to coach the National Team? I think last night's histrionics provided the answer and thankfully someone somewhere made the right decision about that.

I don’t think a college coach should ever coach the National Team again. I’m happy that Cheryl Reeve is coaching them in Paris.

 

[HuskyNan]