Patty Gasso has done it all before.
She’s coached great players like Lauren Chamberlain and Keilani Ricketts. She’s won national titles with respected favorites, like the preseason No. 2 2013 squad, and with unexpected talents, like last year’s young preseason No. 9.
She’s won with a four-loss juggernaut and a 2016 team that lost its first two games and dropped its fourth by late February. Both those teams lifted the same trophy at the end of the year, a testament to Gasso’s steadying presence at the helm.
And she’s done it all with amazing constancy, leading the program since 1995 when Bob Stoops was still on staff with Bill Snyder at K-State.