Collegiate coach for 26 seasons at Western Kentucky, Nebraska, and Louisburg College
Compiled a career winning percentage of .748 with 616 games won over his collegiate coaching career and as a Division I coach, 453-189 (.706)
As head coach at Louisburg College in Louisburg, North Carolina (1977-1981), he led the program to the 1981 NJCAA National Championship and the same year earned the Wade Trophy, given to the National Junior College Coach of the Year
Sanderford was 163-19 in his six years as head coach of Louisburg women’s basketball program, and named the Region X Coach of the Year for four consecutive years, additionally named Outstanding Coach at the National Tournament in 1981
Vice President of the NJCAA Coaches Organization from 1981 to 1982 and inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame in 2000
At Western Kentucky University, he amassed 365 victories and a .753 winning percentage (1982-97), posting 12 seasons with 20 plus victories. Is a school-record of 32 victories during the 1985-86 season, 14 postseasons appearances – 12 NCAA tournaments, and the program’s three Final Four trips (1985,1986,1992), with the team advancing all the way to the National Championship game against Stanford (1992)
The Western Kentucky University Lady Hilltoppers won 15 NCAA Tournament games, advancing four times to the Sweet Sixteen
Coached the Western Kentucky University team to five Sun Belt Conference regular-season championships and seven Sun Belt Conference tournament titles.
Sun Belt Coach of the Year honors three times (1982-83,1985-86, and 1990-91) while coaching seven All-Americans
Inducted into the WKU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008
Head Coach at the University of Nebraska (1997-2002), compiling an overall record of 88-69, ranking him as the second-winningest coach in school history
Guided the Cornhuskers to three consecutive NCAA Tournament bids, which doubled the previous number of NCAA bids by the school
In 1998, he was the Big 12 Coach of the Year while coaching at The University of Nebraska
Along with the success on the court while at Nebraska, Sanderford earned unprecedented fan support, setting a school record with an average home attendance of 5,000 fans per game (1999-2000), the program set school records in his first three seasons, and ranked the top 25 teams nationally in home attendance in each of his first four years
