Tasha Butts hired as Georgetown's women's basketball coach
FILE - LSU's Theresa Plaisance (55) walks past as then-LSU assistant coach Tasha Butts celebrates the team's win over Kentucky with guard Jeanne Kenney after an NCAA college basketball game in Baton Rouge, La., Feb. 24, 2013. Long-time college assistant Tasha Butts was hired as head coach of Georgetown's women's basketball team on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Butts replaces James Howard, whose contract was not renewed last month after four consecutive losing seasons at the school. Credit: AP/BILL FEIG
WASHINGTON — Longtime college assistant Tasha Butts was hired as the head coach of Georgetown’s women’s basketball team on Tuesday.
Butts replaces James Howard, whose contract was not renewed last month after four consecutive losing seasons at the school.
Butts joins Ed Cooley as new basketball coaches at Georgetown; Cooley took over the men’s team last month after Patrick Ewing was dismissed.
Butts has been at Georgia Tech since April 2019, serving as an associate head coach and an assistant coach. Before that, Butts spent eight seasons at LSU. She also coached worked at UCLA and Duquesne.
Butts played college basketball at Tennessee from 2000-04 and played professionally in the WNBA and overseas. Howard went 66-108, a .379 winning percentage, during six years at Georgetown. The team this season went 14-17 and lost by 30 points to UConn in the Big East Conference Tournament quarterfinals on March 4.
