Episode 365: Coach Ryan McCarthy- "The Chaos" Defensive System (Head Women's Basketball Coach Alaska Anchorage University)

Championship Vision Basketball Podcast

Record at UAA: 281-62 (.819), 12 seasonsCareer Head Coaching Record: 295-75 (.797), 13 seasons

One of the brightest coaching talents in the NCAA ranks, Ryan McCarthy has taken the Alaska Anchorage program to unprecedented heights in his 12 seasons, producing a 281-62 record and making the Seawolves annual title contenders.An Anchorage native, McCarthy enters 2024-25 with a top-10 career winning percentage (.797) among active NCAA Div. II women's basketball coaches, having led UAA to the best winning percentage in program history (.939) with a 31-2 record in 2019-20.The five-time GNAC Coach of the Year has led his hometown program to the third-best winning percentage and fourth-most total victories in NCAA Div. II over the past 10 years with a 245-43 (.851) record, reaching the NCAA National Title Game in 2016. From Dec. 2014 through the 2019-20 season, UAA was ranked no lower than No. 16 in the WBCA Top 25 poll -- a streak of 95 polls in a row -- while ascending to No. 1 for a total of eight weeks.Despite not featuring a single player among the NCAA top-50 stats leaders, the 2019-20 Seawolves also swept the Great Northwest Athletic Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles, finishing No. 4 in both national polls and landing McCarthy both the GNAC and NCAA West Region coach-of-the-year awards.In 2018-19, he became the all-time victories leader in Seawolf history as UAA earned a 30-3 record, won the fifth of its six straight GNAC regular-season titles, and finished No. 7 in the WBCA Top 25 coaches’ poll.