Closing the Gaps: Like Football, Women's College Basketball Has Few Black Head Coaches
By: Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

There are so few Black head coaches in big-time college football at last count, five but the paltry number of Black women running big-time college basketball programs has been virtually ignored.

Whites hold 90 percent of all women’s basketball head coaching jobs in all three NCAA divisions: Seven percent are held by Black women, who often face "triple jeopardy," according to Temple University professor emeritus Tina Sloan-Green. "We have to compete [for jobs] against White women, White males and Black males," the president and co-founder of the Philadelphia-based Black Women in Sport Foundation surmises.

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