Andy Landers

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Andy Landers

Title Head coach
College University of Georgia
Sport Women's college basketball
Born October 8, 1952 (1952-10-08) (age 55)
Place of birth Maryville, TN
Career highlights
Overall 789-246
Championships
Seven-Time SEC Champions
(1983, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, 2000)
4-Time SEC Tournament Champions
(1983, 1984, 1986, 2001)
Awards
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame (2007)
Three-Time SEC Coach of the Year (1984, 1986, 1996)
Four-Time NCAA Coach of the Year (1986, 1987, 1996, 2000)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1975–1979
1979–current		 Roane State
Georgia
Basketball Hall of Fame, 2007

Andy Landers (born October 8, 1952 in Maryville, Tennessee) is the longtime head coach of the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team. He married the former Pam McClellan in 1981 and has two children, Andrea Lauren and Drew Joseph.

Following the 2007-08 season, Landers had compiled an overall record of 789-246 (.762) and a record of 707-225 (.760) at Georgia.

Landers graduated from Friendsville (Tenn.) High School in 1970, then attended and graduated from Tennessee Technological University in 1974 with a degree in Physical Education.

In 1975, Landers began his coaching career at Roane State Community College, compiling an 82-21 record over four seasons before Vince Dooley made the 26-year-old his first hire as athletic director at Georgia.

The Lady Bulldog program Landers inherited had compiled a 37-85 record in its first six seasons and had virtually no budget. However, in his first season, Landers led the Lady Bulldogs to a 16-12 record, and by his fourth year in Athens, he had taken them to their first of five NCAA Final Fours. By 1985, the Lady Dogs were in the National Championship game.

Since arriving at UGA, Landers has been named National Coach of the Year four times and SEC Coach of the Year three times, and has led the Lady Dogs to 23 NCAA Tournaments, five Final Fours, seven SEC regular-season titles, four SEC tournament championships, and 21 twenty-win seasons. He has coached two Olympians (who have won a combined six Gold Medals) and 11 Kodak All-Americans.

Today, his average of 24.4 wins per season ranks fourth among all active Division I women's basketball head coaches, as do his 789 total victories. Of the fourteen Division I women's basketball head coaches to reach 600 wins, Landers made it the fifth-quickest, surpassing the mark after only 784 games. Landers is a member of the ninth group of inductees (the class of 2007) in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

[edit] Records Year-By-Year

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Roane State () (1975 — 1979)
1975-1976 Roane State 13-9
1976-1977 Roane State 23-3
1977-1978 Roane State 21-4
1978-1979 Roane State 25-5


Roane State: 81-21 (.796)
Georgia (Southeastern Conference) (1979 — present)
1979-1980 Georgia 16-12 GAIAW Tournament First Round
1980-1981 Georgia 27-10 NWIT Champions
1981-1982 Georgia 21-9 4-3 NCAA First Round
1982-1983 Georgia 27-7 4-5 NCAA Final Four
1983-1984 Georgia 30-3 8-1 NCAA Elite 8
1984-1985 Georgia 29-5 7-1 NCAA Runner-Up
1985-1986 Georgia 30-2 9-0 NCAA Sweet 16
1986-1987 Georgia 27-5 7-2 NCAA Sweet 16
1987-1988 Georgia 21-10 5-4 NCAA Sweet 16
1988-1989 Georgia 23-7 6-3 NCAA Second Round
1989-1990 Georgia 25-5 6-3 NCAA Second Round
1990-1991 Georgia 28-4 9-0 NCAA Elite 8
1991-1992 Georgia 19-11 6-5
1992-1993 Georgia 21-13 4-7 NCAA Second Round
1993-1994 Georgia 17-11 5-6
1994-1995 Georgia 28-5 8-3 NCAA Final Four
1995-1996 Georgia 28-5 10-1 NCAA Runner-Up
1996-1997 Georgia 25-6 11-1 NCAA Elite 8
1997-1998 Georgia 17-11 8-6 NCAA First Round
1998-1999 Georgia 27-7 9-5 NCAA Final Four
1999-2000 Georgia 32-4 13-1 NCAA Elite 8
2000-2001 Georgia 27-6 11-3 NCAA Second Round
2001-2002 Georgia 19-11 6-8 NCAA First Round
2002-2003 Georgia 21-10 10-4 NCAA Sweet 16
2003-2004 Georgia 25-10 8-6 NCAA Elite 8
2004-2005 Georgia 24-10 9-5 NCAA Sweet 16
2005-2006 Georgia 23-9 10-4 NCAA Sweet 16
2006-2007 Georgia 27-7 11-3 NCAA Sweet 16
2007-2008 Georgia 23-10 8-6 NCAA Second Round
Georgia: 707-225 (.760) 212-96 (.690)
Total: 789-246 (.762)

      National Champion         Conference Champion         Conference Tournament Champion


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