And it's encouraging that, despite our question allowing only six more years of runway, a shade more than 6 out of 10 coaches we polled believe there will be a woman hired to run a D-I men's ...

But in women’s basketball, that pipeline moves slower. Part of it, as Staley pointed out, is because women’s coaches — and women’s sports, in general — don’t get the coverage they deserve.

Most coaches walking onto the basketball court are thinking about tactics, starting lineups and the upcoming game. But as the first woman to coach a men’s national team at a major FIBA ...

With the Spurs hiring Becky Hammon as an assistant coach, will college basketball follow -- and when will a woman become a Division-I men's head coach?

A woman coaching Div. I men's basketball? Many at the Women’s Final Four believe it will happen, but women’s game is at the height of its popularity.

In women’s NCAA basketball, a sport made up of 30% Black athletes, Black women made up 12% of head coaches across all divisions during the 2021-22 season, according to the NCAA’s demographics database ...

Dawn Staley and Joni Taylor embraced before and after the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship, savoring a historic moment in women's basketball. It took 41 years for two Black women ...

While it’s common for men to coach women and girls, the reverse isn’t. The Dallas Morning News reported in 2022 that across 15 Dallas-area school districts, women made up 31% of coaches across ...

The likes of Virtue, an Olympic coach, Michigan lacrosse coach Hannah Nielson, whose team is ranked second in the country for the first time in program history, not to mention Wolverines women’s ...

South Carolina's Dawn Staley was the first of the current coaches to be hired in 2008. In 2011, LSU hired Nikki Fargas, and a year later, Terri Williams-Flournoy took over at Auburn, followed by ...

Coaches behave poorly across college sports, but the problem seems particularly acute in women's basketball. Why ... to put it from the player’s perspective, at which a young woman eager for ...