Question: What conference does the team Deb Patterson was the head coach of until March 9, 2014 compete in?
Context: Dana Duckworth (born c. 1971), née Dana Dobransky, is an American college gymnastics coach and former college gymnast.  She is the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics team of the University of Alabama, having succeeded her predecessor, Sarah Patterson, in July 2014.  Duckworth previously served as an assistant coach under Patterson for fifteen years, after having competed for Patterson's Crimson Tide gymnastics team for four years as an undergraduate. Claudio César Cuello (born March 4, 1958) is a former Argentine volleyball player and current coach.  He was head coach of Argentina women's national volleyball team from 1997 to 2002 and in 2003 he became head coach of Argentina men's national volleyball team.  In 2004–2005 he was appointed head coach of the Greek powerhouse Olympiacos and coached the club to the triumph.  In 2005–06 season he worked in CS Petrolul Ploiesti, and led the team to the 2006 Romanian Championship.  From 2006 to 2009 he was head coach of HotVolleys Vienna and coached them to 2 consecutive (2006–07, 2007–08) and 1 (2008–09).  In 2007, after his first season with HotVolleys Vienna, he was appointed head coach of Austria men's national volleyball team as well, coaching the team until 2009.  He then moved to Italy, where he became head coach of Sirio Perugia (2010–2012) and (2012–2013) women's teams in .  In 2013–2014 he coached Lokomotiv Baku women's team in Azerbaijan. James E. "Gravy" Patterson, also known as Pat Patterson, (March 26, 1934 – October 11, 2007) was the most successful coach in the history of Louisiana college baseball.  During his tenure as head coach from 1968 to 1990, the Louisiana Tech University Bulldogs, in Ruston, compiled a 741-462-2 record.  Patterson produced eighteen winning seasons in twenty-three years, and his teams won forty or more games in five of those years.  He was Conference Coach of the Year seven times. The Kansas State Wildcats women's basketball program is the intercollegiate basketball program of the Kansas State Wildcats.  The program is classified in the NCAA Division I, and the team competes in the Big 12 Conference. Ricardo Maurice Patton (born October 23, 1958) is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University.  On March 9, 2011, NIU announced that Patton would not return as their head coach for the 2011–12 season, it is unclear whether he resigned or was fired.  Prior to this, he was the head coach at the University of Colorado.  He was hired as head coach for the Buffaloes on March 5, 1996, just days before the Big Eight Conference Tournament.  Patton guided the Buffaloes to six postseason appearances.  On July 11, 2011 it was announced that Patton joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as an assistant coach. Deb Patterson (born August 30, 1957) is currently the director of basketball operations for the Northern Colorado women's basketball team.  Patterson is the former women's basketball program head coach at Kansas State.  She was relieved of her coaching duties on March 9, 2014.  She holds the school's all-time winningest head coach record.  On December 20, 2008 she won her 250th career game. The Miami Heat is an American professional basketball team based in Miami.  The team was launched in 1988 and played in the 1988–89 season of the National Basketball Association.  The next season they moved from the Western Conference to the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.  After a mainly mediocre performance in the first few seasons, there were extensive team changes in 1995 and 1996 under head coach Pat Riley, including the recruitment of Isaac Austin and P.J. Brown.  They reached the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 1996–97.  They did not reach this level again until 2004–05, under new head coach Stan Van Gundy and with Dwyane Wade as a leading team member.  At this time they transferred to the Southeast Division.  The next year the team won the NBA Finals, defeating the Dallas Mavericks.  The head coach position was next taken by Erik Spoelstra.  Their next successful season was 2010–11, when they reached the NBA Finals again, losing to the Mavericks.  Acquiring LeBron James as a player, they won the Finals in both 2012 and 2013, and won 27 successive games in February–March 2013.  In 2013–14 they reached the Finals again but lost to San Antonio Spurs.  James left the team in July 2014, and the 2014–15 season was less successful. The 2014–15 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University in the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.  The team was led by head coach Mark Few, who was in his 16th season as head coach.  The team played its home games at McCarthey Athletic Center, which has a capacity of 6,000.  The Bulldogs (also informally referred to as the Zags) were playing in their 35th season as a member of the West Coast Conference.  The Zags were predicted to finish atop of the conference by the West Coast Conference Preseason Poll.  The Zags finished in first place in the West Coast Conference Standings for the 18th time with a 17-1 conference record after BYU defeated the Zags in the regular season finale, snapping the nation's longest active home winning streak of 41 games, as well as Gonzaga's school record 22-game winning streak.  The Bulldogs then went on to beat BYU in the West Coast Conference Tournament, and claimed their 14th WCC tournament title, along with punching their 18th ticket to the NCAA Tournament.  Gonzaga entered the 2015 NCAA Tournament as a #2 seed in the South region, and dismantled #15 seed North Dakota State, #7 seed Iowa, and #11 seed UCLA, to gain its second trip to the Elite Eight, as well as Mark Few's first as head coach.  The Zags then fell to #1 seed (and eventual national champion) Duke, and finished the season with a 35–3 record, which were the most wins in school history. The Louisville Cardinals baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of the University of Louisville, located in Louisville, Kentucky.  The program was a member of the NCAA Division I American Athletic Conference for the 2014 season and joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in July 2014.  The Cardinals have played at Jim Patterson Stadium since the venue opened during the 2005 season.  Dan McDonnell has been the program's head coach since the start of the 2007 season.  As of the end of the 2016 season, the program has appeared in ten NCAA Tournaments and three College World Series.  In conference postseason play, it has won two Big East Conference Baseball Tournaments.  In regular season play, it has won two Metro Conference titles, four Big East Conference titles, one American Athletic Conference title, and one Atlantic Coast Conference title.  Louisville also set the ACC record for most conference wins in a season with 25 on May 16, 2015. Elmer Harold Burnham (September 8, 1894 – March 9, 1977) was an American football player and coach.  He was the head football coach at Purdue University in 1942 and 1943.  Burnham's 1943 Purdue squad went 9–0 and shared the Big Ten Conference title with Michigan.  From 1944 to 1960, Burnham served as the head coach at the University of Rochester, where he compiled a record of 82–48–6 in 17 seasons.  Burnham served as Purdue's freshman football coach for seven years before assuming the role as varsity head coach in 1942.  Before coming to Purdue, Burnham coached football at Central High School in South Bend, Indiana for 16 seasons, tallying a mark of 118–30–8.
Answer: Big 12 Conference