DALLAS – Middle Tennessee Head Women’s Basketball Coach Rick Insell has been named ESPN.com’s Coach of the Week announced in the weekly college women’s basketball roundup on Monday.
In Insell’s 18
th season with the Lady Raiders, their 16-2 overall and 9-0 Conference USA record marks their best start during his tenure with the program. MTSU is coming off a 3-0 week defeating UAB, Charlotte and Louisiana Tech and is now ranked No. 23 in this week’s AP Poll for the first time since 2014.
Insell boasts a 421-148 (.740) record at MTSU landing him third among active Division I women’s basketball coaches between 20 and 10 years of experience.
The Lady Raiders currently own a 14-game winning streak, the fourth longest active streak in the nation and the sixth longest in C-USA history.
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