{"id":3391,"date":"2009-02-06T06:58:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/06\/congratulations-to-pat-summitt\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:58:57","slug":"congratulations-to-pat-summitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/06\/congratulations-to-pat-summitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Pat Summitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt got her 1000th win last night<\/a>, a record that will probably stand for a good long while. Nobody else in college basketball really has much of a shot– the record for men’s basketball coaches is Bob Knight at 902, and the most wins by an active coach is Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, somewhere short of 800.<\/p>\n

I’m not a big follower of women’s college basketball– it doesn’t really have the competitive balance of the men’s game, and I’m not a huge fan of watching 30-point blowouts– but what little I do know suggests that Summitt is a class act. I haven’t heard of any academic or athletic scandals in her program, or any controversy attached to her personally.<\/p>\n

And what she’s managed in building her program at Tennessee is really impressive– when I was in Knoxville for DAMOP a few years back, I had two cab rides in which the cabbie spontaneously brought Summitt up. That’s not something that happens very often with regard to women’s college sports.<\/p>\n

So congratulations to Pat Summitt, and best wishes for continued success. She’s under contract to coach until 2014, so barring something catastrophic, she should be able to put the all-time coaching wins mark completely out of reach for anybody else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt got her 1000th win last night, a record that will probably stand for a good long while. Nobody else in college basketball really has much of a shot– the record for men’s basketball coaches is Bob Knight at 902, and the most wins by an active coach is Mike… Continue reading Congratulations to Pat Summitt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}