That was what Alvarez and senior women’s administrator Terry Gawlik thought they had done when they plucked Kelsey from the staff of Stanford’s legendary head coach Tara VanDerveer.

The Cardinal had gone to four consecutive NCAA Final Fours in Kelsey’s four seasons as an assistant coach. She also had gone to three Final Fours as a player at Stanford, including a national championship in 1992.

But that didn’t translate during her time at UW and Kelsey admitted last week that she had a steep learning curve as she made the jump from No. 3 assistant to head coach.

“I understand it’s a business and the bottom line results did not match up with what we anticipated when we first got here or what the administration anticipated,” Kelsey said in an interview Friday night. “I’m proud of a lot of stuff we’ve done here. It just didn’t manifest itself in the win column.

“It is a sports entity where you have to show results and I get that,” she said. “I’ve been in this business a long time and I’m not the first and I won’t be the last.