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So how do you explain the survey of WBB coaches asking which WBB coach was best at x and o's and Tara was by far named the best?

Yes, that was in the Athletic 7 days ago.  Anonymous interviews with 30 WBB coaches.  An interesting article about a lot of stuff.

Best for Xs and Os:

1) Tara Vanderveer
2) Geno Auriemma
3) Jeff Walz
4) Bill Fennely
5) Karl Smesko

“She rarely will lose to a team more than once. She’s so difficult to coach against. Even when her teams on paper aren’t the best, they’ll still be a top-three or top-four team. You watch her players develop. They get better. Tara has just been doing it for so long. And a lot of coaches can’t change with time. And while I think that her system is good, watching her and coaching against her, she’s adaptive."

“She’s so level-headed and doesn’t get rushed. They get great players, but they also teach them how to play the game.”

As Stanford’s head coach for nearly 40 years, VanDerveer simply has a bigger playbook to pilfer from than most other coaches. But the all-time winningest coach in women’s college basketball has had to evolve her style as the game itself has changed. She’s managed to maintain her program’s success throughout, winning championships 29 years apart and making the Final Four in four consecutive decades.

[81alum]

So how do you explain the survey of WBB coaches asking which WBB coach was best at x and o's and Tara was by far named the best?

Yes, that was in the Athletic 7 days ago.  Anonymous interviews with 30 WBB coaches.  An interesting article about a lot of stuff.

Best for Xs and Os:

1) Tara Vanderveer
2) Geno Auriemma
3) Jeff Walz
4) Bill Fennely
5) Karl Smesko

“She rarely will lose to a team more than once. She’s so difficult to coach against. Even when her teams on paper aren’t the best, they’ll still be a top-three or top-four team. You watch her players develop. They get better. Tara has just been doing it for so long. And a lot of coaches can’t change with time. And while I think that her system is good, watching her and coaching against her, she’s adaptive."

“She’s so level-headed and doesn’t get rushed. They get great players, but they also teach them how to play the game.”

As Stanford’s head coach for nearly 40 years, VanDerveer simply has a bigger playbook to pilfer from than most other coaches. But the all-time winningest coach in women’s college basketball has had to evolve her style as the game itself has changed. She’s managed to maintain her program’s success throughout, winning championships 29 years apart and making the Final Four in four consecutive decades.