George Washington University Athletics
Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Head Coach
No stranger to the Nation's Capital and the Atlantic 10 Conference, Ganiyat Adeduntan was named women's basketball head coach for the George Washington Revolutionaries in March of 2025.
During her first season back in Foggy Bottom, Adeduntan guided GW to 18 wins, showing undeniable growth and building a culture of hard work and excellence. Her win total in season one equaled the most the program had won in a single season since 2017-18. Of those 18 wins, 13 came within the friendly confines of the Charles E. Smith Center, the most GW had won at home in a single year since 2014-15.
As Adeduntan has proved over her coaching career, she always has her teams playing their best basketball in March. This was evident by the team's run to the WNIT Great Eight, the deepest postseason run the program had enjoyed since 1996-97. Adeduntan became just the third coach in program history to advance to the postseason in their first year with GW, and now sits alone as the only coach to win a postseason game in that same year.
During her four-year stint at Colgate, Adeduntant led the Raiders to historic results. Before her hiring, Colgate had won 129 games total over 16 years and recorded just two winning seasons in conference play since 2000. In the last three seasons under her leadership, Colgate has won 59 games and posted a winning record in the Patriot League each year.
Colgate's 23 overall wins and 13 conference wins this season were the best in school history. The success of Adeduntan's squad was driven by a relentless defense and a focus on the fundamentals, which saw the Raiders rank sixth nationally in free-throw percentage, 35th in assist-to-turnover ratio and 43rd in scoring defense in the country, while pacing the conference in rebounding margin and turnover margin.
In 2023-24, behind the nation's best three-point field goal defense, Colgate finished 20-14 overall and 10-8 in Patriot League play, en route to capturing their first 20-win season since 2003-04. Adeduntun and the Raiders finished second in the Patriot League standings last year – its highest finish in more than two decades – with a defense that led the Patriot League and ranked 15th nationally in opponents' points per game.
With one of the top defensive units in the country, Colgate challenged itself at every opportunity, scheduling top-seeded 2025 NCAA Tournament team UCLA, as well as opponents from the ACC, Big East and A-10. During the 2024-25 season, Colgate earned the program's first-ever win over a Big East opponent when it knocked off Providence, 54-41, in the second round of the WNIT to become the first team in Patriot League history to advance to the Super Sixteen of the WNIT.
Previously at GW, while learning the ins-and-outs of the powerhouse program, Adeduntan worked directly with the development of guards and wings. Under her guidance, George Washington produced two All-Conference guards in two years in Mei-Lyn Bautista and Brianna Cummings. Having also assisted with the scouting of opponents, community service initiatives, serving as housing and compliance liaison, and overseeing student-athletes' academic progress, there is not a corner of George Washington with which Adeduntan is unfamiliar, paving the way for a strong start.
Originally coming to GW after spending three seasons as an assistant coach at Northeastern University, she helped engineer a nine-win turnaround from her first season on the staff with the Huskies to her second season as the Huskies improved from four wins in 2014-15 to 15 wins in 2015-16.
A 1,000-point scorer and All-ACC performer as a four-year letterwinner at Florida State, Adeduntan also excelled in the classroom as a four-time ACC All-Academic honoree. She earned her both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) from Florida State, and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Northeastern.
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HEAD COACHING RECORD
YEAR OVERALL CONFERENCE POSTSEASON
2025-26 18-18 7-11 WNIT Great Eight
2024-25 23-9 13-5 WNIT First Round
2023-24 20-14 10-8 WNIT Super 16
2022-23 16-14 10-8
2021-22 6-24 4-14
