Surpassing Coach K With Astronomical 1203rd Win, Cameron Brink’s Coach Makes NCAA History

A celebratory wave has hit Cameron Brink-led Stanford Cardinals as their head coach Tara VanDerver engraves her name in NCAA history after becoming the winningest college basketball coach. Evidently, she surpassed Coach K who was previously voted as the college basketball coach with the most number of wins in their career.

Guiding the Cardinals to their victorious glory, let’s learn a bit about coach VanDerveer.

Tara VanDerveer, the chief coach

Yesterday, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer added another star to her 45-year illustrious career with a win over Oregon State. Tara has always been an outstanding coach, evidenced by 267 losses which is similar to a grain of salt in the ocean with her 1200+ wins so far.

As a coach, she holds a win-loss percentage of .818. Moreover, at Stanford, Tara has a record of 1051 wins and 216 losses, with a win-loss percentage of .830.

During the course of her coaching career, she led the Stanford Cardinals to three NCAA Division I Tournament championships in 1990, 1992, and 2021. In addition, she led her team to 13 NCAA Regional-Final Four, 27 Pac-12 Conference regular season, and 14 Pac-12 Conference tournament championships.

With such stellar resilience, she has a record of 61 wins and 25 losses in the NCAA Division I Tournaments. There are several accolades won by Tara, including 5-time National Coach of the Year award (1988, 1989, 1990, 2011, and 2021) and 10-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year. All these awards reflect Tara’s significant contribution to women’s basketball.

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However, there may be other coaches who could surpass Tara’s record.

Which NCAA coach is second in line to break this record?

With a very close margin left to cover, Tara’s winningest NCAA coach record can be broken by the UConn Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma, who has won around 1196 games so far in his career. Secondly, being an active coach, this season he is most likely to catch VanDerveer in this record as he is on the edge of surpassing Coach K’s mark.

This makes it a rare possibility as both VanDerveer and Auriemma are active coaches, with many more games left to win until retirement. Moreover, VanDerveer is just nine months older than Auriemma (69 years) at 70. So, things may come down to the anticipation of who is going to retire first.

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As for the fans, it is still a wonderful thing to witness such magnificence in a team sport like basketball.