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Jonathan Tsipis - University of Wisconsin, Head Women's Basketball Coach - Episode 355
Episode 3553rd September 2020 • Hoop Heads • Hoop Heads Podcast Network
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Jonathan Tsipis is the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at the University of Wisconsin, taking over the program on March 31, 2016.

In his four years, five Badgers have earned eight All-Big Ten honors while 27 have earned Academic All-Big Ten honors, including a record 10 in 2019-20. Two athletes have also recorded 1,000 career points in the past four seasons--Cayla McMorris in 2017-18 and Howard in 2018-19. 

Prior to Wisconsin, Tsipis spent four seasons as the head coach at George Washington University, re-establishing the Colonials as a national power and a dominant team in the Atlantic 10. He inherited a team that went 11-18 the year before he arrived and led them to a 55-11 record, two A-10 titles and consecutive NCAA tournament appearances in the last two seasons. In his four years, GW was 92-38 (.708).

Tsipis arrived at George Washington after serving on the coaching staff at the University of Notre Dame for nine seasons where he worked under Hall of Fame coach Muffet McGraw, Tsipis aided the Fighting Irish to five Sweet 16 appearances, including national runner-up finishes his last two seasons.

Tsipis went to Notre Dame after one season as the director of men’s basketball operations at UNC-Greensboro, where he worked under Fran McCaffery, now the head men’s basketball coach at Iowa. He spent two seasons as an assistant men’s coach at Elon University in North Carolina and one year as the top men’s assistant at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.

Tsipis also spent three seasons on the men’s basketball staff at Cornell University and one year as a student staff assistant at Duke under legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski.

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Get ready to listen and learn from Jonathan Tsipis, Head Women’s Basketball Coach at the University of Wisconsin.

Website - https://uwbadgers.com/sports/womens-basketball

Email – wbb@athletics.wisc.edu

Twitter - @BadgerCoachTsip

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