UTC senior Aryanna Gilbert wears glasses commemorating Jim Foster’s 900th win as a college coach, achieved Thursday at Western Carolina. Gilbert also was on the Mocs team that registered his 800th victory.Maybe the talk of their coach reaching the 900-win plateau was weighing on University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball players.
If it did, none of them were talking about it Thursday – and if it did, it doesn’t matter now.
The Mocs (14-9, 5-3 Southern Conference) were able to help Jim Foster become the eighth women’s coach in NCAA history to reach the accomplishment with a 58-41 win at Western Carolina on Thursday.
They didn’t know he had reached 899 until hearing about it last week.
“Coach Foster never talked about or broadcast it,” said fifth-year senior Aryanna Gilbert, who also was on the team when her coach picked up win No. 800. “It wasn’t really brought to our attention until before the Mercer game. At that point we wanted to get it for him and we didn’t, so this game we made sure we got it.”