On April 30, 2019, she was introduced as the head coach for the Texas Southern Lady Tigers basketball team, a position she held in the 2012–13 season.

Cooper ranks eighth on USC's all-time scoring list with 1,559 points, fifth in assists (381) and third in steals (256).

[2] Source[4] Cooper was named to represent the US at the 1981 William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, Taiwan, while still in high school.

This set up the final against the Soviet Union, led by 7-foot-2 Ivilana Semenova, considered the most dominant player in the world.

The Soviet team, had a 152–2 record in major international competition over the prior three decades, including an 84–82 win over the US in the 1983 World Championships.

The Soviet team, having lost only once at home, wanted to show that the Goodwill games setback was a fluke.

The US team started by scoring the first eight points, and raced to a 45–23 lead, although the Soviets fought back and reduced the halftime margin to 13.

Cooper was a member of the gold medalist 1988 US Olympic Women's Basketball Team.,[8] and the Bronze Medal team in 1992.

On that day, the Comets earned a 76 - 56 win over the Cleveland Rockers where Cooper recorded 25 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block.

She led the league in scoring three consecutive years, leading the franchise to a record four WNBA Championships.

[11] During the Comet dynasty, she was a vital part of the triple threat offense with Sheryl Swoopes and Tina Thompson.

In May 2005, Cooper was named the head coach of the women's basketball team at Prairie View A&M University.

The school was placed on four years' probation for "major violations" in 2005–2006 that ranged from Cooper giving players small amounts of cash to various forms of unauthorized practices.

[17] On May 10, 2010, Cooper-Dyke was announced as the next head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks Women's Basketball team.

[18] In Cooper-Dyke's first season, UNCW achieved an historic high in wins with a 24–9 record and appeared in the 2011 Women's National Invitation Tournament.

[17] The Athletic reported on May 5, 2022, that Texas Southern opened a Title IX investigation into Cooper-Dyke over accusations of sexual harassment and verbal abuse.

Additional allegations of similar misconduct were revealed from her previous coaching jobs at UNC Wilmington and USC.

[26] Although born in Chicago, Illinois, Cooper-Dyke grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California.

[2] Cooper-Dyke attended the University of Southern California and played on their women's basketball team for four years, winning NCAA championships in 1983 and 1984 with star teammate Cheryl Miller, but left in 1986 before earning a degree.

[27] In 2000, she published her autobiography, entitled She Got Game: My Personal Odyssey,[28] which covered her childhood, her basketball career up to that time, and her mother's battle with breast cancer.