With four games left in the season, Eastern women’s basketball sits alone in second place in the Ohio Valley Conference with a record of 9-5 in conference play. Eastern’s next two games are away games against Tennessee State University and Tennessee Tech University. Eastern has gone 2-0 against these teams this season, both of the.
1,203 for Tara! On Sunday afternoon, Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer became the winningest head coach in college basketball history. VanDerveer’s milestone headlines another upset-filled week in women’s college hoops.
Cookeville Mayor Laurin Wheaton read out a long list of accomplishments the Tennessee Tech women’s basketball team achieved during the 2022-23 season with Putnam County Mayor Randy Porter on Monday afternoon, citing details from a joint proclamation from the city and county.
It certainly was an impressive list, culminating in the Golden Eagles’ 10th Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship – its first since the 1999-2000 campaign – as well as the team’s first NCAA tournament victory since 1990.
The proclamation was only part of the awards luncheon in the Hooper Eblen Center as several Golden Eagles were honored for their own achievements during the team’s run this year.
Referencing the team’s first-ever selection to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Academic Top 25 and the team’s 3.58 cumulative grade point average in this past semester, assistant coach Melanie Walls, who oversees the team’s academic efforts,
Late in the fourth quarter Saturday afternoon as Sali Kourouma headed to the University of Arkansas-Little Rock bench following her fifth foul, the television cameras panned to an obviously annoyed Joe Foley.