Chris McIntosh ‘couldn’t be more proud’ after Robin Pingeton’s first year

WICHITA, KS – Robin Pingeton had reason for both pride and disappointment as she spoke following Wisconsin women’s basketball’s season-ending loss to Columbia in the WBIT semifinals . “Don’t feel like it was our best outing,” Pingeton said in her opening remarks of her final postgame press conference of the season, not long after expressing her pride in her players. Standing in the back corner of the Charles Koch Arena press conference room as she made those comments, her boss’ pride certainly seemed to exceed any disappointment.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the job that she and the staff and the team and especially the seniors have done over the past year, this season, to build something,” Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh said. “I think when people look at our program, they see a program that’s on the rise and has a lot of potential. ” UW mailbag: Send us a question about Wisconsin’s men’s, women’s basketball teams McIntosh made those comments to the Journal Sentinel a year after hiring Pingeton to replace Marisa Moseley , who went 47-75 overall and 21-51 in Big Ten play in four seasons.

Pingeton's 16-win season marked the most wins for the Badgers in a single season since Lisa Stone’s 2010-11 team, which went 16-15. “Obviously it’s easy to see the improvement that they’ve made on the court,” McIntosh said. McIntosh is most impressed, though, with the “little things.

” “It’s in the culture that she’s built,” McIntosh said. “She talks about connectiveness and work ethic and the feeling of family within her program. So I think the work that they’ve put in and progress they made will pay dividends going forward.