Two coaches achieved major career milestones on Saturday. Bentley head coach Barbara Stevens won her 900th game of her career, while Tennessee Chattanooga head coach Jim Foster won his 800th.
Stevens became only the sixth women’s basketball coach in NCAA history to reach the 900-win plateau. She is a 2006 inductee into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, to 900-246 over 37 years, including 743-155 in 28 seasons with the Falcons. She’s the third fastest to reach 900, behind only Pat Summitt (Tennessee) and Tara VanDerveer (Stanford).
Foster, who entered the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame last year, improved his record to 800-310 in a career that also has included stops at St. Joseph’s, Vanderbilt and Ohio State. The only other women’s coaches with 800 wins are former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt (1,098-208), North Carolina’s Sylvia Hatchell (925-324), Rutgers’ C. Vivian Stringer (916-336), Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer (912-204), former Texas coach Jody Conradt (900-309), Bentley’s Barbara Stevens (900-246), Auriemma (859-133), Georgia’s Andy Landers (837-280), Montana’s Robin Selvig (808-261) and Scranton’s Michael Strong (804-180).
Foster and Stringer are the only men’s or women’s college coaches to win at least 200 games at three different schools. Foster went 248-126 at St. Joseph’s from 1978-91, 256-99 at Vanderbilt from 1991-2002 and 279-82 at Ohio State from 2002-13. He is 17-3 overall and 9-0 in Southern Conference competition in his first season at Chattanooga.