Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirl Basketball Recognized As Most Improved Team In The Nation
April 29, 2007 | Cowgirl Basketball
Coming off its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1996, Oklahoma State's women's basketball team has been recognized by the NCAA as the most improved team at the NCAA Division I level.
“I am proud of the fact we accomplished this in a league like the Big 12,” Cowgirl head coach Kurt Budke said. “I am very proud of the step we took this year and I think it says a whole lot about my assistant coaches and the job they did in putting this team together.”
OSU tied Western Carolina for top billing with a 12.5-game improvement this season. The formula used by the NCAA to determine games improved adds the difference in victories between the two seasons to the difference in losses and that total is then divided by two.
Budke, who engineered the program's remarkable resurgence in just his second year in Stillwater, saw his team finish this past season with a 20-11 record overall and an 8-8 mark in the formidable Big 12 after going 6-22 overall and 0-16 in league play in 2005-06. The 20-win campaign was the eighth in school history and the Cowgirls' first since the 1997-98 season.
The achievement marks the second time OSU has finished with the nation's largest turnaround. The Cowgirls improved 13 games during the 1983-84 season, finishing with an 18-11 record after posting a 4-23 record the previous year.
“I am proud of the fact we accomplished this in a league like the Big 12,” Cowgirl head coach Kurt Budke said. “I am very proud of the step we took this year and I think it says a whole lot about my assistant coaches and the job they did in putting this team together.”
OSU tied Western Carolina for top billing with a 12.5-game improvement this season. The formula used by the NCAA to determine games improved adds the difference in victories between the two seasons to the difference in losses and that total is then divided by two.
Budke, who engineered the program's remarkable resurgence in just his second year in Stillwater, saw his team finish this past season with a 20-11 record overall and an 8-8 mark in the formidable Big 12 after going 6-22 overall and 0-16 in league play in 2005-06. The 20-win campaign was the eighth in school history and the Cowgirls' first since the 1997-98 season.
The achievement marks the second time OSU has finished with the nation's largest turnaround. The Cowgirls improved 13 games during the 1983-84 season, finishing with an 18-11 record after posting a 4-23 record the previous year.
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