It’s been almost 10 months since Kara Lawson replaced Joanne P. McCallie as the head coach of Duke’s women’s basketball team and there’s still a lot we don’t know about her.
Oh, Lawson’s playing career is well known, an All-American at Tennessee, a sterling 12-year career in the WNBA and a 2008 Olympic gold medal. Add a stint as an ESPN analyst and a pioneering role as an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics and we’re looking at a person with a pretty robust name-recognition profile.
But can she coach women’s college basketball?
Lawson answered questions last year about her coaching style with a blend of pragmatism, matched with more pragmatism.