2009–10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team

2009–10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball
Conference Big East
Head coach Muffet McGraw
Assistant coach Angie Barber
Home arena Edmund P. Joyce Center

The 2009–10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team will represent the University of Notre Dame in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.

Offseason

  • May 4: The Irish will participate in the 2009 US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam at University of Virgin Islands. The event is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Games will be played at the U.V.I. Sports and Fitness Center, the Caribbean’s premier basketball facility located in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas.[1]
  • May 14: Senior guard Lindsay Schrader (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) scored a team-high 15 points to lead four Notre Dame players in double figures. The Irish picked up its second victory in as many games on its European tour with a wire-to-wire 78-68 win over GEAS Sesto San Giovanni at the Sesto San Giovanni Municipal Gymnasium outside of Milan, Italy. Schrader also collected eight rebounds and four steals, while shooting 7-of-12 from the floor. Sophomore guard Natalie Novosel had 13 points, five rebounds and five steals, while senior guard Ashley Barlow and junior forward Becca Bruszewski added 12 points apiece for Notre Dame.[2]
  • May 18, 2009: Fighting Irish incoming freshman Skylar Diggins has been selected as one of 14 finalists for the 2009 USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team. The choices were made from a field of 27 players ages 19-and-under (born on or after Jan. 1, 1990) that competed in three days of trials in Colorado Springs, Colo., at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.[3]
  • August 18: On January. 16, Notre Dame and Connecticut will be part of the first-ever ESPN women's basketball College GameDay broadcast. The game will be broadcast from Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Conn. The matchup between the Fighting Irish and Huskies will tip off at 9 p.m. (ET) and will be televised live to a national cable audience by ESPN.[4]

Preseason

  • Paradise Jam
DateTimeVisiting TeamHome TeamScoreLeading ScorerLeading Rebounder
Nov. 264:30 PMSan Diego StateNotre Dame
Nov. 272:00 PMNotre DameSouth Carolina
Nov. 284:30 PMOklahomaNotre Dame

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Regular season

Roster

NumberNameHeightPositionClass
1Erica Solomon6-2ForwardSoph.
4Skylar Diggins5-9GuardFreshman
12Fraderica Miller5-10GuardSoph.
14Devereaux Peters6-2ForwardJunior
15Kaila Turner5-8GuardFreshman
20Ashley Barlow5-9GuardSenior
21Natalie Novosel5-11GuardSoph.
22Brittany Mallory5-10GuardJunior
23Melissa Lechlitner5-7GuardSenior
24Lindsay Schrader6-0GuardSenior
32Becca Bruszewski6-1ForwardSenior
44Alena Christiansen5-7GuardSenior
52Erica Williamson6-4CenterSenior

Schedule

DateLocationOpponentIrish PointsOpp. PointsRecord
11-3-09HOMEIndianapolis (Exhibition)97530-0
11-15-09HOMEArkansas Pine-Bluff102571-0
11-19-09AWAYMichigan State68672-0
11-22-09HOMEIona80453-0
11-26-09Paradise Jam (US Virgin Islands)San Diego State84794-0
11-27-09Paradise Jam (US Virgin Islands)South Carolina78555-0
11-28-09Paradise Jam (US Virgin Islands)Oklahoma81716-0
12-2-09HOMEEastern Michigan69597-0
12-8-09HOMEIPFW96608-0
12-12-09HOMEValpraiso88479-0
12-20-09HOMECharlotte903010-0
12-29-09AWAYCentral Florida855211-0
12-31-09HOMEVanderbilt746912-0
1-4-10AWAYPurdue797513-0
1-9-10HOMEVillanova814614-0
1-12-10HOMESouth Florida816415-0
1-16-10AWAYConnecticut467015-1
1-19-10AWAYLouisville786016-1
1-24-10HOMEWest Virginia746617-1
1-27-10HOMEProvidence845918-1
1-30-10AWAYSyracuse747319-1
2-1-10AWAYRutgers756320-1
2-6-10HOMEPittsburgh867621-1
2-9-10AWAYCincinnati665022-1
2-14-10HOMEDepaul906623-1
2-16-10AWAYSt. John's717623-2
2-20-10AWAYGeorgetown667623-3
2-23-10HOMEMarquette826724-3
2-27-10AWAYSeton Hall724725-3
3-1-10HOMEConnecticut517625-4
3-6-10Conf. Tourn. First Round (Hartford, CT)Louisville895226-4
3-7-10Conf. Tourn. Second Round (Hartford, CT)St. John's726727-4
3-8-10Conf. Tourn. Semi-Finals (Hartford, CT)Connecticut445927-5
3-21-10NCAA Tournament First Round (South Bend, IN)Cleveland State865828-5
3-23-10NCAA Tournament First Round (South Bend, IN)Vermont846629-5

Player stats

PlayerGames PlayedMinutesField GoalsThree PointersFree ThrowsReboundsAssistsBlocksStealsPoints

Postseason

Team players drafted into the WNBA

RoundPickPlayerWNBA Club

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
  2. ↑ http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/051409aaa.html
  3. ↑ http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/nd-w-baskbl-body.html
  4. ↑ http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/081809aaa.html
  5. ↑ http://www.paradisejam.com/pages/documents/2009WomensIslandDivBracket.pdf%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
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