Women host Northwestern and former GW Elite 8 coach Joe McKeown on Sunday

Time for some women's hoops news! The Revolutionary women host the Northwestern Wildcats led by former GW coach Joe McKeown on Sunday. 

McKeown had an extremely successful almost 20 year run in Foggy Bottom, coaching the women from 1989 to 2008, including an NCAA Elite 8 appearance in 1996-97, three Sweet 16s and overall sixteen NCAA tournaments at GW. He also won five A-10 coach of the year awards, ten A-10 regular season championships and four A-10 tourney titles. As you can tell by those successes, the teams were really great in those years with a lot of fun players. McKeown left GW for Northwestern in 2008 in part to be closer to medical specialists for his family, and is still beloved in DC. He was also Big Ten coach of the year in 2020 and has led the Wildcats to two more NCAAs.

McKeown, who has been a head coaching since 1986 starting at New Mexico State, is retiring after this year and in a cool move, GW and Northwestern scheduled a home-and-home series so Joe can come back to the Smith Center for a farewell. GW has a nice article about the game and GW is also selling a neat Thanks Joe t-shirt.

Northwestern is 6-5 this season while the Revolutionaries are 7-5 under first year coach Ganiyat Adeduntan, who was formerly the head coach at Colgate.