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NOTRE DAME Women’s Basketball 2010-11 2001 NCAA Champions • 1997 NCAA Final Four 8 NCAA Sweet 16 Berths • 17 NCAA Tourney Appearances 2010-11 Schedule 2010-11 ND Women’s Basketball: Game 8 5-2 / 0-0 BIG EAST #16/16 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (5-2 / 0-0 BIG EAST) vs. N3 (12/12) Michigan Tech (exhib.) W, 102-30 #2/3 Baylor Lady Bears (7-1 / 0-0 Big 12) N12 (12/12) New Hampshire W, 99-48 uDATE: December 1, 2010 uRADIO: Pulse FM (96.9/92.1) N15 (12/12) Morehead State W, 91-28 uTIME: 7:00 p.m. CT Bob Nagle, p-b-p N18 (12/12) UCLA (15/15)1 L, 83-862OT uAT: Waco, Texas uLIVE STATS: UND.com N21 (12/12) @ Kentucky (9/10)FSS L, 76-81 Ferrell Center (10,284) uTWITTER: @ndwbbsid/@UND_com N26 (18/16) IUPUI2 W, 95-29 uSERIES: First meeting uTEXT ALERT: Sign up at UND.com N27 (18/16) Wake Forest2 W, 92-69 uTICKETS: (254) 710-1000 N28 (18/16) Butler2 W, 85-54 D1 (16/16) @ Baylor (2/3) 8:00 ET Storylines Web Sites D5 PurdueESPN2 2:00 ET u Notre Dame faces its third top-15 opponent u Notre Dame: www.UND.com D8 • @ Providence 7:00 ET this season, including its second on the u Baylor: www.baylorbears.com D11 Creighton 2:00 ET road. u BIG EAST: www.bigeast.org D20 @ Valparaiso 8:05 ET u The Fighting Irish are playing their first game u Big 12: www.big12sports.com 3 in the state of Texas since December 2001. D29 vs. Gonzaga 7:30 ET 3 Setting The Standard D30 vs. Loyola Marymount 7:30 ET hiss year’ schedule already is proving to be Under the guidance of 24th-year head coach J2 Southeast Missouri State 2:00 ET a perfect laboratory for No. 16 Notre Dame, Muffet McGraw, Notre Dame has evolved into J5 • @ Marquette 8:00 ET Tand the Fighting Irish will get another op- one of the country’s leading women’s basketball J8 • ConnecticutCBS 2:00 ET portunity to test their progress against a high- powers. The Irish have appeared in 17 NCAA J12 • Louisville 7:00 ET quality opponent as they travel to Waco, Texas, Tournaments (including a current streak of 15 J15 • @ Pittsburgh 2:00 ET Wednesday for a 7 p.m. (CT) game against No. in a row) and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 CBS C 2/3 Baylor at the Ferrell Center. eight times in the past 14 seasons. Notre Dame J18 • Georgetown 7:00 ET Notre Dame (5-2) is coming off a three-game also has reached the NCAA Women’s Final Four J23 • St. John’sESPNU 2:00 ET sweep to the WBCA Classic championship last twice, winning college basketball’s ultimate J29 • @ Villanova 7:00 ET weekend at Purcell Pavilion. The Fighting Irish prize with the 2001 national championship. F1 • Syracuse 7:00 ET defeated IUPUI, Wake Forest and Butler by an In its history, Notre Dame has developed F5 • @ South Florida 7:00 ET average of 40 points per game and led for all but nine All-Americans, 10 WNBA players (including F8 • Seton Hall 7:00 ET 1:37 during the weekend, leading start to finish seven draft picks in the past nine years) and four in the first two games and only trailing in the very USA Basketball veterans (eight medals won). F12 • Rutgers 2:00 ET early stages of Sunday’s finale vs. Butler. Now in their 34th season in 2010-11, the Irish F19 • @ ConnecticutBETV 2:00 ET Junior guard Natalie Novosel was named own an all-time record of 694-304 (.695). F22 • @ West VirginiaCBS C 7:00 ET the tournament Most Valuable Player after av- F26 • Cincinnati 2:00 ET eraging 18.3 points per game and shooting .533 Notre Dame Head Coach Muffet McGraw CBS C from the field in the three-game series. Senior F28 • @ DePaul 9:00 ET Saint Joseph’s ’77 4 forward Devereaux Peters (13.7 ppg, 6.0 rpg) u 24th season at Notre Dame M4 BIG EAST 1st Round TBA and junior forward Erica Solomon (10.7 ppg, • 530-205 (.721) at Notre Dame M5 BIG EAST 2nd Round4-BETV TBA 7.0 rpg) joined Novosel on the WBCA Classic • 618-246 (.715) in 29th season overall M6 BIG EAST Quarterfinal4-ESPNU TBA All-Tournament Team. u 2011 Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee M7 BIG EAST Semifinal4-ESPNU 6/8:00 ET u 2001 consensus National Coach of the Year M8 BIG EAST Final4-ESPN 7:00 ET u Four-time Naismith Coach of the Year finalist Rankings M19- NCAA 1st-2nd Rounds5-ESPN/ESPN2 TBA u e Notr Dame is No. 16 in the latest Associ- u Four-time conference Coach of the Year 22 ated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls. • 2001 BIG EAST Coach of the Year 6-ESPN u Baylor is No. 2 in the latest Associated Press u 2009 WBCA Carol Eckman Award recipient M26- NCAA Regionals TBA poll and No. 3 in the current ESPN/USA To- 29 day poll. A3 NCAA National Semifinals7-ESPN TBA A5 NCAA Championship Game7-ESPN TBA Notre Dame’s Possible Starting Lineup (C = captain) (x) = numbers before opponent name indicate ND rank in AP/ESPN-USA Today polls; numbers after are opponent rank; when only one ranking is No Name Pos Ht Yr* PPG RPG Other Notes shown, it is from the AP poll. 14 Devereaux Peters F 6-2 Sr. 11.0 5.4 2.1 spg • WBCA Classic All-Tournament Team 32 Becca Bruszewski (C) F 6-1 Sr. 8.4 5.6 2.0 apg • 3rd career dbl-dbl vs UCLA (12p/13r) • = BIG EAST Conference game 1 = Super Six Series (Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center - Notre Dame, Ind.) 4 Skylar Diggins G 5-9 So. 12.9 2.9 4.9 apg • 5+ assists in 4 of 7 games this season 2 = WBCA Classic (Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center - Notre Dame, Ind.) 21 Natalie Novosel G 5-11 Jr. 17.0 4.1 2.1 spg • WBCA Classic MVP; 18.3 ppg in tourn 3 = State Farm Holiday Classic (KeyArena at Seattle Center - Seattle, Wash.) 4 = BIG EAST Championship (XL Center - Hartford, Conn.) 23 Kayla McBride G 5-11 Fr. 9.7 3.3 2.1 apg • 3rd on team with .556 FG%; started last 4 5 = NCAA 1st/2nd rounds (at campus sites) Off the Bench For the Irish 6 = NCAA Regionals (at Dallas, Dayton, Philadelphia, Spokane) 1 Erica Solomon F 6-2 Jr. 7.9 4.0 1.3 bpg • 1st career dbl-dbl vs IUPUI (12p/12r) 7 = NCAA Women’s Final Four (Conseco Fieldhouse - Indianapolis, Ind.) 2 Veronica Badway G 5-7 Jr. 0.8 0.6 0.2 spg • Walk-on made college debut vs. UNH (3 pts) FSS = Game televised on Fox Sports South 11 Natalie Achonwa F 6-3 Fr. 8.0 6.1 1.7 apg • Season-high 13 rebounds at Kentucky CBS C = Games to be televised on CBS College Sports 12 Fraderica Miller G 5-10 Jr. 1.5 1.5 2.0 spg • Tied career high with 5 stls vs. MSU BETV = Games to be televised on BIG EAST Network package 15 Kaila Turner G 5-8 So. 4.6 1.6 2.7 apg • 5.5 A/TO ratio in WBCA Classic (11a/2to) NOTE: All home games not scheduled for commercial TV tentatively will 22 Brittany Mallory (C) G 5-10 Sr. 5.8 1.4 2.4 spg • Missed UK/IUPUI gms (spr. ankle vs UCLA) be webcast live and free of charge at UND.com. 41 Mary Forr F 5-11 Sr. 1.6 1.0 0.4 apg • Walk-on scored 6 pts in debut vs. UNH All games will be broadcast live on radio by South Bend’s Pulse FM 44 Ariel Braker F 6-1 Fr. 3.0 3.5 0.7 bpg • Season-high 10 pts, 6 rebs vs IUPUI (96.9/92.1) and worldwide on the Internet at UND.com. * = players listed by academic class (Mallory and Peters retain additional year of eligibility) All times Eastern // Dates and times subject to change Pronunciations: Achonwa (uh-CHAWN-wuh); Bruszewski (broo-SHEFF-skee); Fraderica (fruh-DARE-uh-kuh); Kaila (KAY-luh); Novosel (KNOW-vuh-sell) 2010-11 Notre Dame Women’s Basketball 1 fighting irish women’s basketball 2010-11 NOTRE DAME Covering the Irish Quick Hitters of its 14-game non-conference slate. Those Notre Dame Sports Information • With its No. 16 ranking in this week’s As- new opponents include: New Hampshire C112 Joyce Center, Second Floor sociated Press poll, Notre Dame now has (Nov. 12 - W, 99-48), Morehead State (Nov. Notre Dame, IN 46556 15 - W, 91-28), Kentucky (L, 81-76), Wake phone (574) 631-7516 // fax (574) 631-7941 appeared in the AP poll for a school-record Chris Masters, Associate Media Relations Director (WBB) 62 consecutive weeks, extending the pro- Forest (W 92-69), Baylor (Wednesday), [email protected] // cell (574) 532-4166 gram standard that began with the 2007-08 Gonzaga (Dec. 29) and Southeast Missouri preseason poll. State (Jan. 2). Media Services • The Fighting Irish have made the AP pre- • Notre Dame is closing in on the 1,000th The official Notre Dame athletics web site contains game in the program’s 34-year history, with schedules, rosters, updated statistics and some historical season poll in 11 of the past 12 seasons information from previous seasons.