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Cincinnati Basketball: Is It Time To Replace UC’s Women’s Head Basketball Coach Jamelle Elliott?
On Friday March 4th the Cincinnati Bearcats’ women’s basketball team wrapped up their 2015-16 season with a 70-61 loss to the eight seed East Carolina Pirates in the AAC Tournament and finishing with a 8-22 record. In the last seven years UC has only advanced out of the first round of their conference tournament three times and gone to a postseason non-conference tournament once. They’ve also compiled a 78-135 record (36.6%) during that time.
The common theme over those seven years has been head coach Jamelle Elliott. A former UConn player and assistant coach, I was hopeful she would bring some of Geno Auriemma’s magic to the Bearcats. At the time bringing her in made sense. If Cincinnati wanted to elevate it’s women’s hoops program like they had in football and on the men’s side, why not go after someone on the staff of one of the most successful teams in college basketball? It’s the same mindset that forces Nick Saban to replace his coordinators and assistant coaches practically every year.
Now, I understand women’s basketball isn’t as popular of a sport as football or men’s basketball at Cincinnati. The same goes for most schools outside of UConn, Notre Dame, or Baylor and in some cases baseball, lacrosse, or soccer can rank ahead of it.
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On Friday March 4th the Cincinnati Bearcats’ women’s basketball team wrapped up their 2015-16 season with a 70-61 loss to the eight seed East Carolina Pirates in the AAC Tournament and finishing with a 8-22 record. In the last seven years UC has only advanced out of the first round of their conference tournament three times and gone to a postseason non-conference tournament once. They’ve also compiled a 78-135 record (36.6%) during that time.
The common theme over those seven years has been head coach Jamelle Elliott. A former UConn player and assistant coach, I was hopeful she would bring some of Geno Auriemma’s magic to the Bearcats. At the time bringing her in made sense. If Cincinnati wanted to elevate it’s women’s hoops program like they had in football and on the men’s side, why not go after someone on the staff of one of the most successful teams in college basketball? It’s the same mindset that forces Nick Saban to replace his coordinators and assistant coaches practically every year.
Now, I understand women’s basketball isn’t as popular of a sport as football or men’s basketball at Cincinnati. The same goes for most schools outside of UConn, Notre Dame, or Baylor and in some cases baseball, lacrosse, or soccer can rank ahead of it.
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