Does Gender Matter? Examining the Impact of Coach Gender on Team Success: Evidence from the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament
Document Type
Article
Keywords
gender; success; coaching; NCAA basketball; NCAA tournament
Identifier Data
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41302-024-00265-6
Publisher
Springer Nature
Rights Management
© 2024 Springer Nature
Abstract
We examine the impact of coach gender on the probability that NCAA Division I women’s basketball teams advance to the end-of-year NCAA tournament. Results of our full sample analysis show that coach gender has no significant impact on the likelihood of advancing, providing no evidence for ability as a potential explanation for the decline in women coaches. In the subsample analysis, while we find that men coaches have higher predicted probabilities of tournament appearances in non-Power Five conferences, women coaches are more successful in the elite Power Five conferences, where they have been losing the most ground in coaching positions.
