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Lady Tiger Basketball Coleman was introduced as the Head Coach in a spirited press conference in the McFadden team room on March 29, 2010. Due to her ties with the program and school, Coleman has as solid foundation with the Clemson community, and a commitment to making Clemson successful. “I am very passionate about re-establishing a winning tradition for the women’s basketball program. This is something I take very personally, because I am a product of this university,” said Coleman. “I want every Lady Tiger to have as great as experience as I did when I was here. I am committed to being the best, and I plan to work extremely hard to bring out the best in my players. I want to bring that same type of consistency and direction to the women’s basketball program. There is no staff that is going to out work my staff. There is no team that is going to outwork my team.” Coleman has 11 years of experience as an assistant at the Division I level. She served as a student assistant coach at Liberty in 1999-00 and was an assistant coach at Butler from 2000 to 2002. From there, she worked for five seasons as an assistant under Jim Davis and Cristy McKinney at Clemson. She has spent the past three seasons at Penn State, who went 17-14 this season and made the WNIT this year. Coleman has posted a strong reputation for recruiting and player development. While at Clemson, she helped Chrissy Floyd and Lakeia Stokes to Kodak All-America honors. At Penn State, she helped Brianne O’Rourke to All-Big Ten honors in 2008-09. This past season, she coached guards Tyra Grant and Alex Bentley to All-Big Ten honors and Bentley to AllFreshman team accolades. Grant was second in the Big Ten and 20th nationally in scoring at 18.8 points per game. Recruiting is also a strength, as she was instrumental in bringing AllACC performer Lele Hardy to Clemson four years ago. Hardy went on to finish
her career fifth in school history in scor- a record of 93-33 in her four years as a ing, third in rebounds, and in the top- player, the most wins in Clemson history 25 in Division-I history with 398 steals. for a senior class. Her senior class won As recruiting coordinator, she over- the only two ACC Championships in school saw the efforts of bringing in the 20th- history, played in four NCAA Tournaments, ranked class nationally to Penn State for including one Sweet 16 season, and all 2010, which included Parade All-Amer- four of her teams were ranked in the final ican and top-50 player Maggie Lucas. top-25, including a final #10 AP rank in Her last two classes were both ranked 1999. She was inducted into the Clemson in the top-20 by ESPN HOOPGurlz. Athletic Hall of Fame as a player in 2008. Coleman also pursued a pro- Coleman, the former Itoro Umoh, fessional basketball career and be- is married to Harold Coleman, and the came the first Lady Tiger named to two have four children, Jada (8), and Jora WNBA active roster in 2000-01. dyn (3), Jasmine (2) and Harold III (1) As a player at Clemson, she led the Lady Tigers to a pair of ACC Tournament championships as the team’s point guard. Clemson won the conference title her freshman year, 1995-96, and her senior year, 1998-99. She was the tournament’s MVP as a senior, in addition to a first-team Coleman’s Career Coaching Records All-ACC selection. First Last CU CU Mtg Mtg Wins Loss Pct. Home Away Neut. That same Opponent AL-Birmingham (UAB) 10-11 11-12 0 2 .000 0-1 0-1 0-0 season, she was an Baylor 10-11 10-11 0 1 .000 0-0 0-0 0-1 honorable mention Boston College 10-11 11-12 0 2 .000 0-0 0-2 0-0 10-11 11-12 1 1 .500 1-1 0-0 0-0 AP All-American. Charl. Southern Davidson 11-12 11-12 1 0 1.000 1-0 0-0 0-0 She was selected Duke 10-11 11-12 0 2 .000 0-1 0-1 0-0 10-11 11-12 0 4 .000 0-2 0-2 0-0 to the ACC’s 50- Florida State Furman 10-11 11-12 2 0 1.000 1-0 1-0 0-0 Year Anniversary Georgetown 10-11 10-11 0 1 .000 0-0 0-1 0-0 team in 2002, Georgia Tech 10-11 11-12 0 4 .000 0-2 0-2 0-0 11-12 11-12 0 1 .000 0-1 0-0 0-0 one of just four Illinois Indiana 10-11 10-11 0 1 .000 0-1 0-0 0-0 Clemson players Kennesaw State 10-11 10-11 1 0 1.000 1-0 0-0 0-0 10-11 11-12 0 2 .000 0-2 0-0 0-0 honored by the Maryland Miami (FL) 10-11 11-12 0 2 .000 0-0 0-2 0-0 conference. Cole- North Carolina 10-11 11-12 1 4 .250 0-1 1-1 0-2 man still ranks North Carolina Central 11-12 11-12 1 0 1.000 1-0 0-0 0-0 10-11 11-12 1 1 .500 1-0 0-1 0-0 11th in Clemson North Carolina A&T UNC-Greensboro 10-11 10-11 1 0 1.000 1-0 0-0 0-0 history in scoring NC State 10-11 11-12 1 1 .500 1-0 1-0 0-0 10-11 11-12 0 2 .000 0-1 0-1 0-0 (1,409 points), Oakland Presbyterian 10-11 10-11 1 0 1.000 1-0 0-0 0-0 fourth in games Providence 11-12 11-12 0 1 .000 0-0 0-1 0-0 played (127), sec- Samford 10-11 10-11 0 1 .000 0-0 0-1 0-0 10-11 10-11 0 1 .000 0-0 0-1 0-0 ond in free throws South Carolina South Carolina St. 10-11 11-12 2 0 1.000 2-0 0-0 0-0 made, third in Syracuse 10-11 10-11 0 1 .000 0-0 0-0 0-1 10-11 11-12 1 2 .333 1-1 0-1 0-0 assists, and first Virginia Virginia Tech 10-11 11-12 1 2 .333 0-2 1-0 0-0 in assist-to-turn- Wake Forest 10-11 11-12 1 3 .250 0-2 1-1 0-0 10-11 11-12 16 42 .276 11-20 5-18 0-4 over ratio (1.73). TOTALS Clemson had
Year-By-Year Results Year Coach 2010-11 Itoro Coleman 2011-12 Itoro Coleman Coleman Totals
Conf. Games W-L Pct. 3-11 (11th) .214 2-14 (12th) .125 5-25 .200
ACC Trn. W-L 0-1 0-1 0-2
Non-Conf Games Home Away W-L W-L W-L 7-9 8-8 2-9 4-8 3-12 3-10 11-17 11-20 5-19
F inal Polls Neut USA W-L AP Today 0-3 - - 0-1 - - 0-4 - -
Overall W-L 10-20 6-22 16-42
Pct. .333 .214 .250
The Coleman Era Team Statistics Year 2010-11 Clemson Opponent
G 30 30
FG-FGA 666-1741 760-1885
Pct. .383 .403
3FG-FGA Pct. 191-568 .336 179-539 .332
FT-FTA 273-434 378-581
Pct. .629 .651
Reb./Avg. Mar. 1174/39.1 -1.5 1218/40.6
AS-TO 407-646 424-501
BS-ST 139-231 108-308
Pts/Avg. 1796/59.9 2077/69.2
2011-12
28 28
579-1555 655-1716
.372 .382
87-315 .276 154-504 .306
274-450 360-587
.609 .613
1079/38.5 -4.0 1189/42.5
359-599 412-492
169-227 117-330
1519/54.2 1824/65.1
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