Belmont Women’s Basketball Coach Bart Brooks Named Coach Of The Year

Belmont women’s basketball coach Bart Brooks. Photo: Courtesy of the Belmont Vision/Bronte Lebo.

Belmont women’s basketball coach Bart Brooks has been named 2020-21 Coach of the Year by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association (TSWA.)

Brooks led the Bruins to their third Ohio Valley Conference Championship in four years as well as the program’s first ever NCAA Tournament win, beating No. 5 seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs 64-59. They are the first OVC team to win a NCAA Tournament game since 1990.

The Bruins’ record of 21-6 was the sixth consecutive season where they won 20 or more games. Brooks picked up his 100th win in the NCAA Tournament and he ranks 10th nationally in win percentage (.794) among active head coaches.

Brooks, a Wyoming native, joined the program in 2017 from DePaul as an assistant coach. He has become the third-fastest head coach to 100 career victories in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history.

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Steven Boero is the editor of The Sports Credential who joined in March of 2021. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication with a minor in Music Business from Belmont University. While at Belmont, he served as sports editor and eventually editor-in-chief at the university’s student-run newspaper the Belmont Vision where he covered men’s and women’s basketball including Rick Byrd’s retirement and the Bruins first NCAA Tournament win in 2019.

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