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The 2005 Coyotes Sports Hall of Fame Committee has voted USD’s championship women’s basketball teams of 1982-85 into the “Special Achievements – Preserving History at South Dakota” category. Those Coyote squads, directed by head coach Chad Lavin (who is the current USD women’s head coach), won three straight NCC titles and rolled up a 64-22 overall record (.744), including a 37-13 mark (.740) in NCC play. USD was ranked 18th in the nation in 1982-83, finishing with an overall record of 19-9 and winning the NCC with a 7-3 record. USD, which was ranked as high as seventh in the country, compiled a 22-7 overall record and finished atop the league with a 10-2 mark in 1983-84 before falling in the regional championship. In 1984-85, the Coyotes, ranked 14th in Division II, had a 23-6 overall record and won the league title with an 11-3 mark, advancing to the regional title game. A total of six Coyote Sports Hall of Fame members played for the Coyotes during the three-year period, which included three consecutive trips to the national playoffs. The 1982-85 squads are USD’s first women’s basketball teams to win NCC titles. In the history of the NCC, the 1982-85 Coyote squads, along with Nebraska-Omaha (1980-82) and NDSU (1995-97), are the only teams to win three-straight outright league titles.
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