Women's Basketball

Louisiana Tech University

P.O. Box 3166 - Ruston, LA - 71272
Team Office: Tel: (318) 257-4111 Fax: (318) 257-4437
Team website: www.latechsports.com

Louisana Tech offers nearly 70 Bachelor degree programs, 20 Masters, and several doctoral degree within five academic colleges: Business, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering, and Liberal Arts. Majors offered include Aviation, Architecture, Commercial and Advertising Art, Photography, Wildlands Science, and Interior Architecture. US News 2008 report on Amercia's Best Colleges ranked Louisiana Tech in the 4th tier among national institutions.

The university is located in Ruston (pop.22k) situated in north central Louisana about 250 miles east of Dallas.

School website
www.latech.edu

College Profile

Type:

Public, Co-educational

Religious Affiliation:

None

Enrollment:

11,000

Getting In:

Moderately difficult. ACT 25/75 :20-25

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$9,000
Out-of-State: ~$14,000

Most Popular Majors

Business - Engineering - Education

Misc. Information

Head coach Chris Long enters his 3rd season at Tech in 2007-08. Long took over from Kurt Budke who took the same position at Oklahoma State after serving three seasons at Tech. Long’s hiring was considered a no-brainer after being hired by the legendary Barmore as an assistant coach in 1999. (Barmore retired after the 2001-02 season after producing a 576-87 record.) Since the program's inception in 1974-75, Louisana Tech has never had a losing season and has an all time winning percentage of .845! Prior to his appointment as head coach, Long served as the No. 1 assistant to Budke for three seasons. Prior to Tech, Long served as head coach at Vicksburg High School for two seasons where he led the Missy Gators to two straight North State Finals. Up until 2004-05, the Lady Techsters had made 23 straight NCAA appearances (nine final fours), captured eleven straight conference regular season titles, and been ranked among the top ten ranked teams 24 times. Coming off his inaugural season in 2005-06 in which Long went 26-5, the Lady Techsters went 17-13 in 2006-07.

Team Name	Lady Techsters
Colors	Red and Columbia Blue
Division	NCAA Division I
All-Time Record	926-169 (.845)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	17-13	26-5	20-10	147-19 (.886)
Conference	12-4	15-1	14-4	84-2 (.976)
Conf. Finish	1	1	1	1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Post Appear.	n/a	1st Rnd	n/a	NCAA 5x
Final 25 Rank	NR	#17	NR	5x

Coaches

Head Coach	Chris Long
	Birthday: 0000-00-00
Started at Louisiana Tech	2002-03
Contract Expires	tbp
Record as Head Coach	43-18 (.704)
Record at Louisiana Tech	43-18 (.704)
Coaching Awards	WAC COTY (03)

Asst. Coaches	Joni Crenshaw, Scott Stoehr, Brooke Stoehr

Recruiting Coordinator

Joni Crenshaw, (318) 257-4111, crenshaw@latech.edu

Conference and Schedule

Louisana Tech joined the Western Athletic Conference (ww.wacsports.com) in 2001-02 after playing in the Sun Belt conference. The WAC is a highly competitive athletic conference serving the needs of universities who fit between national powerhouses and small college programs. It is comprised of nine teams from seven states. While the WAC is generally not considered one of the strongest conferences, Tech schedules a tough pre-season. League play starts in late December or early January. Currently, Tech plays a 18 game schedule with games are usually played on Thursday evening and Saturday or Sunday afternoon. The farthest away game is in Hawaii, some 3,000 miles from Ruston. All teams play in the end of season WAC tourney with the winner receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA.

Conference Opponents

Boise State, Hawaii-Manoa, Idaho, Utah State, Nevada-Reno, Fresno State, New Mexico State, and San Jose State

Facilities

Thomas Center
Capacity 8,000, Average attendance 3,500

Style/Stats

In 2005-06, Louisana Tech was ranked #20 in scoring offense at 72.9 ppg.