Shacobia Barbee scored 14 points to lead four Lady Bulldogs in double figures in No. 22 Georgia’s 74-51 win at Tennessee Tech on Saturday night. The victory represented Andy Landers’ 850th win in 36 seasons as the Georgia’s first – and still only – full-time women’s basketball head coach.
"Let’s make sure we get the record straight," Landers said. "These aren’t my wins. They belong to a lot of people. I’ve been at Georgia for 36 years so, yeah, that piece is mine. But the wins, the first one in 1979 all the way through tonight, those belong to a lot of people other than me."
The win came against Landers’ alma mater. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tennessee Tech in 1973 and 1974, respectively.
Landers becomes just the seventh college basketball coach – men’s or women’s – to record 850 victories at a single Division I school. The six coaches to reach that milestone are Pat Summitt (1,098 wins at Tennessee), Jim Boeheim (953 wins at Syracuse), Mike Krzyzewski (916 wins at Duke), Geno Auriemma (882 wins at Connecticut), Dean Smith (879 wins at North Carolina) and Adolph Rupp (876 wins at Kentucky).
Landers also is closing in on his 950th career victory. He now has 932 career wins including the 82 recorded from 1975-79 at Roane State, a junior college in Harriman, Tenn.
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