Iowa State (11-5, 7-2 Big 12) got head coach Bill Fennelly his 700th career win with a gritty 62-60 victory over Kansas State (5-8, 0-6 Big 12) Thursday evening at Bramlage Coliseum. Fennelly is the 26th coach in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history to reach 700 wins, and is one of 12 active DI women’s hoops coaches with 700 career victories.

Fennelly began his career as a head coach at Toledo (1988-95) where he went 166-53 (.758). The veteran head coach is now in his 26th season at ISU and (534-278), holds an overall record of 700-331 (.679).

Fennelly is a three-time finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award (2001, 2002, 2005). His peers also voted him the WBCA District 5 Coach of the Year twice (1999, 2005) and he finished runner-up to Tennessee’s Pat Summitt in the 1998 Associated Press Women’s Coach of the Year balloting.

Former ISU president Gregory Geoffroy and athletics director Jamie Pollard awarded Fennelly a lifetime contract following the 2006-07 campaign.

Fennelly will go for #701 when the Cyclones host #9 Baylor on Sunday.

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