Through Sunday, she has now coached her team to 700 victories. Only one women's coach has more.

	Pat Summitt has won six NCAA titles, second only to John Wooden.

Her teams have compiled an .827 winning percentage. Only one women's coach can claim better.

Those facts all testify to Summitt's success. But how else might we put her career into perspective? Well, let's return to those three measures: career victories, career winning percentage, and NCAA titles.

It's arbitrary by nature, what Carl Sagan might call a "back-of-the-envelope" method, but we can take Summitt's rank in those three categories, and then assign points to each, with 10 points awarded for a No. 1 ranking, nine points for a No. 2 ranking, and so on, down to one point for a No. 10 ranking in a particular category.

Let's start with the NCAA championships. Of course, Summitt is way out in front with her six titles, as no other women's coach has won more than two. So she gets all 10 possible points in that category.

As we've already seen, Summitt currently is No. 2 in both victories (to Jody Conradt) and winning percentage (Leon Barmore). Thus, Summitt gets nine points in each of those categories, for a grand total of 28 points. How does this compare to other top women's coaches?

Pat Summitt       28
Tara VanDerveer   14.5
Jody Conradt      14
Leon Barmore      11
Vivian Stringer   10

Obviously, Summitt completely dominates her colleagues. Stanford's VanDerveer ranks second (tied) with two NCAA titles and she's fifth in career winning percentage, but she has not yet broken into the top 10 in career victories. Texas' Conradt is tops in victories (10 points), but ranks eighth in winning percentage (3 points) and, with one NCAA title, is tied with seven other coaches (1 point). Louisiana Tech's Barmore is No. 1 in winning percentage (10 points), tied for third with one championship (1 point), and isn't among the victories leaders. And Stringer, currently coaching at Rutgers, ranks third in career victories (8 points) and ninth in winning percentage (2 points), but has yet to win a title.

What about men's coaches? Without going into the details, we can say that at least in terms of ranks in career victories, career winning percentage and championships, no men's coach can match Summitt. Here are the four men's coaches who come close.

Adolph Rupp    27
Dean Smith     22.5
John Wooden    16
Bob Knight     10.5

OK, just a few details. Adolph Rupp coached for better than four decades, and he's No. 2 in all three categories: behind Clair Bee in winning percentage, behind Dean Smith in career victories, and behind Wooden (of course) in championships.

You'll notice, however, that Rupp's 27 points falls one short of Summitt's 28 ... and of course, she's not finished yet. Obviously, a perfect score is 30, and she's got a chance to inch a little closer. Thirty victories behind Conradt entering this season, Summitt is still young enough to pass Conradt one day, and take over the No. 1 spot. Winning percentage will be tougher, as Barmore's got a pretty hefty lead, .869 to .826 before this season.

Add everything up, and one just might conclude that Pat Summitt is the most successful college coach in the history of Division I basketball. Women's or men's.