Milestones: Bentley College’s Barbara Stevens became the sixth women’s basketball coach in NCAA history to reach 700 victories January 6 when her Falcons defeated Bryant University, 85-69. Stevens, the first Division II women’s coach to join the 700-win club, achieved the milestone in her 27th season and 886th career game, making her the third-fastest to win that many games. Stevens coached at Clark University (Massachusetts) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, before coming to Bentley. Other women’s coaches who have won 700 games are Pat Summitt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jody Conradt, University of Texas at Austin; C. Vivian Stringer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick; Philip Kahler, St. John Fisher College; and the late Sue Gunter, Louisiana State University ... Caldwell College men’s basketball coach Mark Corino won his 400th career game January 12 with an 86-78 victory over Dominican College. The victory made Corino the second active coach in New Jersey to have one 400 games (the other is New Jersey City University coach Charles Brown). Corino is in his 23rd year of coaching and in his 18th year at Caldwell. “Four hundred is a nice number, but it’s the people you’re involved with and the ability to touch people’s lives as they come through the program that are the important things,” said Corino, who has been named Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference coach of the year four times ... Mary Fleig, women’s basketball coach at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, won her 400th game February 8 with a 67-48 victory over Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. She previously coached at Franklin & Marshall before joining Millersville 16 years ago.

Miscellaneous: Tayron Thomas set a scoring record for Philadelphia University February 23 when he tallied 42 points (along with 12 rebounds and four assists) to break the previous career mark of 2,369 set by former Rams all-America Randy Stover from 1988 through 1992. Through February 25, Thomas had scored 2,414 points. Earlier this year, Thomas surpassed the Philadelphia single-season scoring record ... The West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference basketball tournaments were broadcast to a statewide audience for the fourth consecutive season this year. The network, a joint production between the WVIAC and smallcollegesportsweb.com, is the largest at the Division II level. All 14 contests were available over the air on the network’s flagship station in the Kanawha Valley, and selected games were aired on 10 stations around West Virginia. All 14 broadcasts also were accessible through the Internet.