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

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2009–10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball
Notre Dame Fighting Irish logo.svg
ConferenceBig East Conference (1979–2013)|Big East
Head coach
  • Muffet McGraw
Assistant coachAngie Barber
Home arenaEdmund P. Joyce Center
Seasons
← 
2010–11 →

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
Date Time Visiting Team Home Team Score Leading Scorer Leading Rebounder
Nov. 26 4:30 PM San Diego State Notre Dame
Nov. 27 2:00 PM Notre Dame South Carolina
Nov. 28 4:30 PM Oklahoma Notre Dame

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Regular season[]

Roster[]

Number Name Height Position Class
1 Erica Solomon 6-2 Forward Soph.
4 Skylar Diggins 5-9 Guard Freshman
12 Fraderica Miller 5-10 Guard Soph.
14 Devereaux Peters 6-2 Forward Junior
15 Kaila Turner 5-8 Guard Freshman
20 Ashley Barlow 5-9 Guard Senior
21 Natalie Novosel 5-11 Guard Soph.
22 Brittany Mallory 5-10 Guard Junior
23 Melissa Lechlitner 5-7 Guard Senior
24 Lindsay Schrader 6-0 Guard Senior
32 Becca Bruszewski 6-1 Forward Senior
44 Alena Christiansen 5-7 Guard Senior
52 Erica Williamson 6-4 Center Senior

Schedule[]

Date Location Opponent Irish Points Opp. Points Record
11-3-09 HOME Indianapolis (Exhibition) 97 53 0-0
11-15-09 HOME Arkansas Pine-Bluff 102 57 1-0
11-19-09 AWAY Michigan State 68 67 2-0
11-22-09 HOME Iona 80 45 3-0
11-26-09 Paradise Jam (US Virgin Islands) San Diego State 84 79 4-0
11-27-09 Paradise Jam (US Virgin Islands) South Carolina 78 55 5-0
11-28-09 Paradise Jam (US Virgin Islands) Oklahoma 81 71 6-0
12-2-09 HOME Eastern Michigan 69 59 7-0
12-8-09 HOME IPFW 96 60 8-0
12-12-09 HOME Valpraiso 88 47 9-0
12-20-09 HOME Charlotte 90 30 10-0
12-29-09 AWAY Central Florida 85 52 11-0
12-31-09 HOME Vanderbilt 74 69 12-0
1-4-10 AWAY Purdue 79 75 13-0
1-9-10 HOME Villanova 81 46 14-0
1-12-10 HOME South Florida 81 64 15-0
1-16-10 AWAY Connecticut 46 70 15-1
1-19-10 AWAY Louisville 78 60 16-1
1-24-10 HOME West Virginia 74 66 17-1
1-27-10 HOME Providence 84 59 18-1
1-30-10 AWAY Syracuse 74 73 19-1
2-1-10 AWAY Rutgers 75 63 20-1
2-6-10 HOME Pittsburgh 86 76 21-1
2-9-10 AWAY Cincinnati 66 50 22-1
2-14-10 HOME Depaul 90 66 23-1
2-16-10 AWAY St. John's 71 76 23-2
2-20-10 AWAY Georgetown 66 76 23-3
2-23-10 HOME Marquette 82 67 24-3
2-27-10 AWAY Seton Hall 72 47 25-3
3-1-10 HOME Connecticut 51 76 25-4
3-6-10 Conf. Tourn. First Round (Hartford, CT) Louisville 89 52 26-4
3-7-10 Conf. Tourn. Second Round (Hartford, CT) St. John's 72 67 27-4
3-8-10 Conf. Tourn. Semi-Finals (Hartford, CT) Connecticut 44 59 27-5
3-21-10 NCAA Tournament First Round (South Bend, IN) Cleveland State 86 58 28-5
3-23-10 NCAA Tournament First Round (South Bend, IN) Vermont 84 66 29-5

Player stats[]

Player Games Played Minutes Field Goals Three Pointers Free Throws Rebounds Assists Blocks Steals Points

Postseason[]

NCAA Basketball Tournament[]

Awards and honors[]

Team players drafted into the WNBA[]

Round Pick Player WNBA Club

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2009-05-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Notre Dame Athletics | the Fighting Irish".
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2009-05-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Notre Dame Athletics | the Fighting Irish".
  5. ^ http://www.paradisejam.com/pages/documents/2009WomensIslandDivBracket.pdf[permanent dead link]

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