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The NCAA News -- March 15, 1999

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Facilities: Old Dominion University has received a $5 million gift from Virginia Beach, Virginia, resident Ted Constant that will support the development of the 75-acre University Village. The project will include a $40-million convocation center, which will feature an 8,500-seat arena. Constant is a longtime supporter of Old Dominion's Intercollegiate Foundation ... Authors Stephen and Tabitha King have given the University of Maine, Orono, $100,000 to help build a planned softball facility on campus. The gift, which is the most recent of many examples of the Kings' generosity to their alma mater, represents a significant step toward the fund-raising goal of $800,000 needed to pay for the privately financed facility. Plans for the facility, to be known as the Kessock Softball Field, have recently been completed. The university hopes to have the field ready for play by the 2000 spring season.

Milestones: Roy Williams, University of Kansas, 300 wins in men's basketball; and Marian Washington, University of Kansas, 500 wins in women's basketball. Both coaches reached their respective plateaus on the same day against the same team -- Oklahoma. Williams reached the 300-win mark faster (11 seasons) than any other Division I coach ... Lou Henson, New Mexico State, 700 victories in men's basketball. Henson is the 13th Division I coach to reach the 700-win plateau. His overall record in 36 seasons is 700-352. Henson began his career at Hardin-Simmons University in 1962, then he coached for 10 seasons at New Mexico State and for 21 seasons at the University of Illinois, Champaign, before returning to New Mexico State last year ... Jim Pehlan, Mount St. Mary's (Maryland), 800 wins in men's basketball. Phelan, who has won more games than any other active coach in any division, earned No. 800 with his team's 72-56 victory over Central Connecticut State University in the championship game of the Northeast Conference postseason tournament.