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

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.

2009–10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball
Conference	Big East Conference (1979–2013)|Big East
Head coach	Muffet McGraw
Assistant coach	Angie Barber
Home arena	Edmund P. Joyce Center
Seasons ← 2008–09 2010–11 →

2009–10 Big East Conference women's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Connecticut	16	–	0		1.000			39	–	0		1.000
West Virginia	13	–	3		.813			29	–	6		.829
Georgetown	13	–	3		.813			26	–	7		.788
St. John's	12	–	4		.750			25	–	7		.781
Notre Dame	12	–	4		.750			29	–	6		.829
Rutgers	9	–	7		.563			19	–	15		.559
DePaul	9	–	7		.563			21	–	12		.636
Providence	7	–	9		.438			19	–	15		.559
Syracuse	7	–	9		.438			25	–	11		.694
Marquette	6	–	10		.375			17	–	16		.515
South Florida	6	–	10		.375			15	–	16		.484
Pittsburgh	5	–	11		.313			16	–	15		.516
Louisville	5	–	11		.313			14	–	18		.438
Cincinnati	4	–	12		.250			12	–	18		.400
Villanova	3	–	13		.188			14	–	16		.467
Seton Hall	1	–	15		.063			9	–	21		.300
† 2010 Big East tournament winner

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 from the original on January 26, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
2. "Notre Dame Athletics | the Fighting Irish".
3. . Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2009.
4. "Notre Dame Athletics | the Fighting Irish".
5. http://www.paradisejam.com/pages/documents/2009WomensIslandDivBracket.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}

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