Which coaches may break Tara VanDerveer's NCAA wins record? - ESPN

Stanford women's coach Tara VanDerveer surpassed former Duke men's coach Mike Krzyzewski on Sunday as the NCAA's winningest basketball coach at any division. The Cardinal's victory over Oregon State marked VanDerveer's 1,203rd career win, breaking a tie with Coach K.

So who will catch VanDerveer? Here are some coaches who might be able to do so one day.

Numerically speaking, Auriemma is in the best position of any active coach to catch VanDerveer. He is on the cusp of passing Coach K's career mark this season. Then again, unlike Krzyzewski, VanDerveer remains active and is also still winning games.

Rarely have two coaches been this closely matched in career wins and age: VanDerveer at age 70 is just nine months older than the 69-year-old Auriemma. Could ownership of this record come down to the simple question of who chooses to retires first, VanDerveer or Auriemma? For now, only the coaches can answer that question. And neither has hinted of an impending retirement.

Calipari is on pace to reach the point where VanDerveer is now in terms of official wins is the neighborhood of 2036-37. That sounds a long way off, and it is: Calipari will be 77 or 78 years old by that point.

Then again on the men's side, Jim Boeheim stayed in the game to roughly that age, so who knows? If Calipari stays in coaching at that age, he could reach some impressive numbers.

Worth noting: Calipari won 42 games combined at UMass in 1995-96 and at Memphis in 2007-08 that the NCAA later vacated.

Self and Calipari are closely linked in career wins, just like VanDerveer and Auriemma. One key difference, however, is that Self is nearly four years younger than Calipari. (Your coaching demographics fun fact of the day: Self and Gonzaga Bulldogs men's