Wonder how you get to become the winningest active coach in NAIA? Simple, laughs Midland Lutheran College coach Joanne Bracker: "Longevity."

It's a formula that works across the Divisions. Bentley's Barbara Stevens is the winningest (by victories) active coach in Division II. Stevens, recently inducted into the Bridgewater State College Hall of Fame, started coaching in 1977 at Clark University.

It shoud come as no surprise that Pat Summitt at Tennessee in the winningest coach at the Division I level. Heck, she's the winningest coach in all college basketball. Think about: she started at Tennessee as a 22-year old in 1974. Now she holds nearly every NCAA tournament record for a women's coach.

At the Division III level, St. John Fisher's coach Phil Kahler has 731 victories, the most by a D-3 coach. He has coached for 33 years, and established St. John Fisher as the all-time winningest basketball program, and himself as the winningest active coach at the Division III level. Coach Kahler is currently recovering from a recent heart attack, so send some good wishes out to him and his team.

Not sure who rules at the JUCO level -- anyone out there know?

As for high school, I know that as of April 2005, the legendary Dorothy Caters of Chicago's John Marshall Metro High School became the 13th coach in US History to win 800 games and was fourth on the alltime winningest coaches in the country. Google failed me on finding the names of the other three coaches.