T Dawg, as VanDerveer is affectionately called on campus, will get there in 45, with 38 of them at Stanford.
She will also do it with a higher winning percentage — about 82 percent of her games versus Krzyzewski’s 77 percent.
championships, even though many of the nation’s best women’s basketball athletes can’t play for her because they don’t meet Stanford’s academic standards.
Now, collectives of big donors at competing schools are paying large sums to attract and keep athletes not just in football but also in other sports, including women’s basketball.
But Stanford donors, affluent as they are, have so far not stepped up as much as those of other schools.
Persons:
Tara VanDerveer, Mike Krzyzewski, K
Organizations:
Stanford, can’t
Locations:
Duke