Jane Albright

Jane Albright is a women's college basketball coach. From 1994 to 2002, she coached at the University of Wisconsin where she compiled a 161-107 record. In her final season Wisconsin went 7-21, before she resigned.^[1] She also coached at Northern Illinois University for 10 years. She took the Huskies to the NCAA tournament four out of her final five seasons there. She is presently the coach of the University of Nevada, Reno.

Albright is a cousin of Andy Albright President & CEO of National Agents Alliance.

She was most recently coach at Wichita State University from 2003 to 2007, where she went 48-95.

USA Basketball

Jane Albright served as the assistant coach the head coach of the team representing the USA at the World University Games held in Buffalo, New York in July 1993. The USA opened with double-digit margin victories over Israel,Taiwan, and the Ukraine. Their next game was against Russia, and they held a single point lead with just over ten minutes to go ant he game, but they finished strong, and won 72–55. The next game was against Cuba, which included sixth players from their 1992 Olympic team. The USA pulled out to a 15 point lead at halftime,a ad extended to an 18 point lead at one time, but Cuba proved to be too strong, and came back to defeat the USA 88–80. After beating Japan, the USA faced China, whose team also featured many members of their silver medal winning Olympic team. The USA fell behind; their comeback attempt fell two points shy of tying the game. The final score in favor of China was 75–73. The opponent in the bronze medal game was Lithuania. The USA team won 83–73 to earn the bronze medal.^[2]

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