Former Ohio State coach Jim Foster is the coach of the UTC women’s basketball team.Want to know what the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team will look like offensively and defensively under new coach Jim Foster?
“Ask me that question in a month,” Foster said Friday during his introductory news conference.
Foster has been a college head coach for 35 years. He has a career record of 783-307, with 26 trips to NCAA tournaments and twice as many Elite Eight appearances and seasons with 30 or more wins (four each) as losing seasons.
All that experience and success has to have produced a sophisticated philosophy, right?
“My basketball background is I coach what’s in the gym,” said the man who will be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on June 8. “If I’ve got a 6-foot-6 All-American on the low block, they’re going to touch the ball often. If I don’t, if I’ve got guards that can shoot the 3 and get up and get in your grill, we’ll play that way.”