Lady Dogs end season No. 13
Georgia women’s basketball coach Andy Landers was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in June, putting a cap on his 28th season at the helm in Athens.
“Being selected into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame is an honor, but the real honor is coaching young people and teaching them how to be successful,” Landers said.
It was those young people who helped Landers make 2006-07 another historical season for Georgia women’s basketball. Here are the highlights:
The Lady Dogs finished the season with a loss to Purdue in their fifth-straight Sweet 16 to end a 27-7 season.
Then-senior guard Cori Chambers became the program’s all-time 3-point leader and set the record for career games played. Chambers then was drafted by the WNBA and currently plays for the Connecticut Sun.
Then-freshman Ashley Houts set the pace for an outstanding debut campaign with 18 points her first game. The guard averaged 9.6 points and 3.6 assists per game en route to an SEC Freshman of the Year award. Classmates and roommates Angel Robinson and Christy Marshall joined her on the conference All-Freshman team.
All-American Tasha Humphrey slumped a little in her junior season, but still managed to pull down All-SEC First Team for the third time and claim Second-Team All-American honors.
The Lady Dogs end the season ranked No. 13 in the country, the ninth-straight season they have closed a campaign in the top-25.
Georgia has started this season 8-0, and looks to give Landers the title that has eluded him since he became the Lady Dogs’ first full-time head coach in 1979.
