Iowa State basketball women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly has agreed to contract extension through 2022 according to Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard.
Fennelly’s team finished strong in 2016-17, winning its final five regular-season games, knocking off the sixth-ranked team in the country on the road and earning a berth in the 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship for the 10th time in 11 seasons.
“When you consider Coach Fennelly took a program that had averaged just more than 10 wins a year in the two decades before his arrival and now has won 465 games in Ames, it’s a pretty amazing story,” Pollard said. “His players are great ambassadors on and off the court and he has personally built a loyal and large fan base one person at a time.”
The dean of Big 12 coaches, Fennelly has coached the Cyclones to a record of 465-236 (.666) over 22 years. His teams have made 20 NCAA Championship appearances and won at least 20 games 19 times in 29 seasons as a head coach at ISU and Toledo. He is one of 17 active coaches with more than 600 Division I coaching wins.
Fennelly’s contract was extended three years to June 30, 2022. All other terms remained unchanged.
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