USC women’s basketball coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke has resigned, the school announced Friday.
Cooper-Dyke, an alum and a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, had a 70-56 record in four seasons, but the Trojans dropped below .500 for the first time in her tenure this season, which ended Thursday with a loss to Cal in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament. They finished 14-16 overall.
“The USC women’s basketball program has a tradition built on national championships, great players and outstanding coaches,” USC athletic director Lynn Swann said in a statement. “We look forward to bringing in a coach who will add to that legacy, one who will move our program forward while doing so in one of the world’s greatest cities, at one of the country’s finest academic institutions and in the nation’s premier women’s basketball conference.