Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider currently sits one victory shy of recording No. 500 in his career and his Jayhawks will look to get it for him at 6 p.m. Wednesday night at West Virginia.
A Kansas win would make Schneider the 32nd active coach in Division I women’s basketball with 500 wins.
The bulk of his wins so far came during his 12 seasons as the head coach at Emporia State, where he finished with 306 wins and just 72 losses. He made 11 trips to the NCAA Tournament and won a Division II title in 2010. From there, he went to Stephen F. Austin, where he won 95 games in five seasons before leaving for Kansas in 2015.
Now, in his eighth season with the Jayhawks, Schneider has 98 wins at KU and has the Jayhawks tracking toward a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
The Jayhawks enter Wednesday’s game against WVU at 16-7 overall and 6-6 in conference play following wins over Texas Tech and TCU.
They’ll be looking for their first three-game winning streak of the conference season and to climb above .500 for the first time in Big 12 play since Jan. 13.
West Virginia, meanwhile, also sits at 6-6 in Big 12 play and is 15-8 overall. WVU snapped a three-game losing streak in its last game, topping No. 21 Iowa State 73-60 in Morgantown.
The Jayhawks trail WVU, 16-7, in the all-time series. But KU has won three in a row over the Mountaineers, including a matchup earlier this season in which they turned a 14-point halftime deficit into a 19-point win.
Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. on Big 12 NOW via ESPN+.
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