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Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer will receive an honorary degree from the University of Iowa.
Rutgers announced Wednesday that Stringer will receive the doctor of humane letters degree at Iowa's commencement ceremonies on May 15.
She will be honored along with former NBC news anchorman Tom Brokaw and poet Robert Hass.
Stringer coached at Iowa from 1983-95, when she left to take the Rutgers job.
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She is third in women's basketball history with 843 victories, and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
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