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Congrats Tara VanDeveer

Congrats to Tara, 1975 alum, for becoming the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history. With her 1203rd win, over Oregon State, she passed Coach K.


Wasn't Coach K an assistant coach at IU in 1975? 3 of the all time winners at IU at the same time.

From a January 20, 2024 article: "VanDerveer used to attend Knight's practices when she was a player at Indiana in the 1970s. It was a very different era for women's sports, which she reflected on Friday."

Small wonder.

Article quotes her as saying ""We practiced at 7:30 at night because the [men's team] went from 2 to 7," VanDerveer said. "We had Hamburger Helper when we got home at 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night. We washed our own uniforms, we bought our own shoes, we drove vans. My coach was a graduate student."

Mac ought to take note.
 
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