HAMPTON, Va. – The Hampton University Department of Athletics announced on Monday that it has given head women’s basketball coach David Six a five-year contract extension.
This extension keeps Six at Hampton through the 2018-19 season.
Six is coming off yet another 20-win season and his fourth straight MEAC Tournament championship. The Lady Pirates went 28-6 this past season, setting a program Division I record for wins in a season, and they became the second MEAC program in conference history to win the tournament four straight times.
For his efforts, Six was named the MEAC Coach of the Year – marking the second time he’s earned that honor. The Lady Pirates went unbeaten in MEAC play in 2012-13, a program first and just the fifth time in MEAC history a women’s program went unbeaten in conference play.
Hampton is also the second women’s program in MEAC history to go unbeaten in conference play and win the conference tournament in the same season.
The 2012-13 season also saw the Lady Pirates go 3-3 against schools from so-called “BCS conferences” – while the rest of the MEAC was 1-24. Hampton beat such schools as LSU and Mississippi State, and the Lady Pirates set a program Div. I record with a 19-game winning streak from Jan. 2 through March 16.
The Lady Pirates have won the MEAC Tournament in each of Six’s four years at the program, and Hampton has also won the last three MEAC regular-season titles. In his first four years as a college coach, Six is 99-30 overall and 58-6 in conference play.
Six is also 12-0 in the MEAC Tournament.
The Lady Pirates led the nation in scoring defense this past season, giving up just 47.8 points per game. Hampton was second in the nation in scoring defense in 2011-12, 12th in the nation in 2010-11, and 14th in the nation in 2009-10, Six’s first at the helm.
This past season, Hampton was also third in the nation in both field goal percentage defense and 3-point field goal percentage defense.
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