KU Athletics
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas announced today that 2022 Big 12 Coach of the Year, Brandon Schneider, has signed a new four-year contract that will keep him in Lawrence through the 2025-26 season.
In his seventh season leading the Jayhawks, Schneider has led Kansas Women’s Basketball to a breakthrough season in 2021-22. Kansas finished the regular season with a record of 20-8 and finished fifth in the Big 12 with an 11-7 conference record. The 20 wins are the most by a KU team in nearly a decade and also marks the first time since 1999-2000 that the Jayhawks finished the regular season with 20 wins.
On Monday, Schneider was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year, while three Kansas players earned postseason recognition from the conference. He has now received five conference coach of the year honors in his career; this is his first in the Big 12.
Earlier this season, Schneider guided the Jayhawks to a seven-game winning streak, the program’s longest since 1997. Kansas has been close to garnering a national ranking, spending six weeks receiving votes in the AP Top 25 poll. For his efforts, Schneider has earned two National Coach of the Week honors in back-to-back weeks, receiving the honor from WhoopDirt.com on Feb. 15 and ESPN.com on Feb. 21.
The Kansas women’s basketball success has not been limited to the court in 2021-22. The women’s basketball program set a new team-record with a 3.44 Team GPA in the fall semester and had a program-best seven student-athletes earn a spot on the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 team.