ND Women's BB '15 - '16 Season

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Thank you, Seniors!

 

[texbender]

Nice season by a team that lost arguably it's top recruit for the year as well as the starting forward.
Good luck in the ACC tourney and then on to NCAA...hope you come thru the Dallas Regional.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Another game which showed our wonderful positives and our chinks in our armor. Muffet shows me that she's reluctantly convinced that in the clutch she has to go with defense rather than offense [Huffman/Johnson] and when Arike is in there for points, she must surround her with good help defense players.

When things started to look very sloppy, Muffet put our strangler team out there [our three great players plus Hannah and Mychal] and it was almost impossible for BC to do anything well. Mychal Johnson is starting to look like a very good player, and a severe defensive pest/stopper.

It was also interesting that Muffet went with Diamond instead of Koko when it counted. Again, defense and at least coordination, rather than physicality.

Marina Mabrey was on a short leash. Muffet must have decided that she needed a teaching moment [the hard way] this game.

The saddest thing I've seen in sports this year also happened: Maddy looking at the camera and waving goodbye.

 

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The saddest thing I've seen in sports this year also happened: Maddy looking at the camera and waving goodbye.

That was poignant.

 

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Up Next For The Fighting Irish: Notre Dame has earned the No. 1 seed for next week’s ACC Tournament and will have a double-bye into the tournament quarterfinals. The Fighting Irish will play their first ACC Tournament game at 2 p.m. (ET) Friday, March 4 with a quarterfinal matchup against the winner of the second-round game between the Nos. 8-9 seeds (likely to be come from a group of four teams — Duke, Georgia Tech, Virginia and Wake Forest; the full ACC bracket will be revealed Sunday night after all conference regular-season play has concluded). Notre Dame’s ACC quarterfinal will be televised live on the ACC-Regional Sports Networks (including Comcast Channel 101 in South Bend — check theacc.com for additional presenting affiliates), as well as on ESPN3 and WatchESPN. In addition, radio coverage will be available in South Bend on Pulse FM (96.9/92.1) and the official Notre Dame athletics online multimedia platform, WatchND (watchnd.tv) and the WatchND app.

 

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Irish remain 2nd in AP

Irish remain 2nd in AP

So Ca picked up a point from last week's poll and are 9 points behind ND.


2016 Women's College Basketball Rankings and Polls for Week 17 - ESPN

 

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Connecticut Huskies, South Carolina Gamecocks remain atop NCAA women's committee top-10 rankings

By Mechelle Voepel

The top four -- UConn, South Carolina, Notre Dame and Baylor -- have been the same for all three reveals. The Gamecocks' loss to UConn on Feb. 8 prompted a change in the minds of most Associated Press voters, who swapped South Carolina and Notre Dame. But the poll has no impact on the selection committee, whose members clearly don't agree.

What could change that? If South Carolina loses in the SEC tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, especially before the final, and Notre Dame wins the ACC tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina. Both teams are the respective defending champion of their league tournament.

 

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High Five! Irish Have All-ACC Quintet
Allen, Cable and Turner receive first-team all-conference citations; Marina Mabrey and Ogunbowale make ACC All-Freshman Team.

March 1, 2016

By Chris Masters

NOTRE DAME, Ind. — After earning its school-record fifth consecutive outright regular-season conference title (and third in as many years of Atlantic Coast Conference membership), the No. 2/3 University of Notre Dame women’s basketball team was recognized for its efforts with a handful of individual honors on Tuesday, as the ACC office announced this year’s all-conference and all-freshman teams.

Fighting Irish junior guard Lindsay Allen (Mitchellville, Md./St. John’s College), graduate student guard Madison Cable (Mt. Lebanon, Pa./Mt. Lebanon) and sophomore forward Brianna Turner (Pearland, Texas/Manvel) earned spots on this year’s 10-player All-ACC First Team. Notre Dame was the only school with three first-team selections this season, marking the fourth time in six years the Fighting Irish have fielded three first-team all-conference honorees in the same season (first since 2012-13 in the BIG EAST Conference).

In addition, Notre Dame placed two of its freshman guards — Marina Mabrey (Belmar, N.J./Manasquan) and Arike Ogunbowale (Milwaukee, Wis./Divine Savior Holy Angels) — on the 2015-16 ACC All-Freshman Team that was revealed Tuesday. The Fighting Irish and North Carolina were the only programs with two all-freshman choices, the first time Notre Dame fielded a pair of all-rookie picks in the same season since a three-year run of multiple BIG EAST All-Freshman Team choices from 2007-09.

 

[Old Man Mike]

When the national AAs come out, I expect Brianna Turner to be first team, Lindsay Allen to be third team, and, ridiculously underrated, Maddy Cable to be honorable mention. { there is a strong prejudice in All-Star voters against a player whose greatest contributions are physical warrior play and total self-sacrifice to win. Although Maddy is EXTREMELY athletic, she doesn't do things "prettily" enough to attract the shallow eye-ball test voters.}

 

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Coaches Poll Still Has ND #3 But Losing Votes

Coaches Poll Still Has ND #3 But Losing Votes

2016 Women's College Basketball Rankings and Polls for Week 17 - ESPN

ND dropped two points from last week while #4 BU added two votes.

ND does have 2nd place suppport. The Irish are 10 points over the a full count of 3rd place votes (23 points X 32 voters) while South Carolina is 12 points under a full count of 2nd place votes.

 

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Turner ACC Defensive POY

Turner ACC Defensive POY

Turner, McGraw Saluted With ACC Year-End Awards :: Notre Dame Women's Basketball :: UND.COM :: The Official Site of Notre Dame Athletics

Turner, a two-time first-team all-ACC selection, is the third Fighting Irish women’s basketball player to receive a conference defensive player-of-the-year trophy, and the first since Devereaux Peters earned the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year award in 2011 and 2012. Ruth Riley also claimed that honor during each of her final three seasons at Notre Dame (1999-2001).

Turner copped this year’s award through a vote of the 15 ACC head coaches, who cast ballots for ACC’s all-conference, all-freshman and all-defensive teams, as well as its Sixth Player of the Year, at the conclusion of the regular season. The coaches’ All-ACC squads will be released next week.

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Despite missing six games with a shoulder injury early in the season, Turner has been one of the ACC’s most consistent players all year long, leading the conference in field-goal percentage (.618 – also fifth in nation) and blocked shots (3.1 bpg. – also 13th in nation), while ranking 12th in scoring (14.3 ppg.) and 13th in rebounding (7.0 rpg.) with two double-doubles.

A member of the Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 List and Naismith Trophy Midseason Top 30 List, Turner was equally strong during conference games, leading the ACC in field-goal percentage (.658) and blocks (2.9 bpg.), while ranking eighth in scoring (15.4 ppg.) and 12th in rebounding (7.3 rpg.).

After blocking 89 blocks as a rookie last year, Turner has recorded 72 blocked shots this season, already standing eighth on Notre Dame’s single-season blocks list. In fact, she joins Riley as the only Fighting Irish players ever to post multiple 70-block seasons — Riley did so during each of her four years under the Golden Dome from 1997-98 through 2000-01.

Perhaps Turner’s greatest value is shown in Notre Dame’s team defensive success when she has been in uniform and the effect when she was sidelined with her injury. In the 23 games Turner has played this season, the Fighting Irish are allowing 21 fewer points per game (55.8 ppg. vs. 76.8 ppg.) and limited opponents to a .347 field-goal percentage, more than 10 percent lower than when Turner was absent (.458).

 

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McGraw ACC Coach Of The Year

McGraw ACC Coach Of The Year

Turner, McGraw Saluted With ACC Year-End Awards :: Notre Dame Women's Basketball :: UND.COM :: The Official Site of Notre Dame Athletics

This marks the third time in four years, and the seventh time in McGraw’s career that she has been named a conference coach of the year, covering five different leagues. She previously was honored in 1983 (East Coast Conference, while coaching at Lehigh University), as well as six times during her 29-year career at Notre Dame — 1988 (North Star Conference), 1991 (Midwestern Collegiate Conference/Horizon League), 2001 and 2013 (BIG EAST), and 2014 and 2016 (ACC).

The ACC Coach of the Year award, like Tuesday’s initial slate of all-conference teams, was selected through a vote of the ACC’s Blue Ribbon Panel, which consists of designated media members who cover the conference’s 15 institutions, the conference’s 15 head coaches and media relations directors, and other selected national and regional women’s basketball experts.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Hail our great Coach!!

If Muffet could find physical [rough-house] tall bigs, one per year, who could meet ND academic standards, and get them on the team, no one [including the Eastern #@$$@&#*] would ever beat her. ... a Natalie Achonwa per year would be just fine. We need two on the floor [or one enforcer with a Brianna] and two on the bench vs foul trouble. Several teams have this so it is not fantasy.

 

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ACC Tournament

ACC Tournament

Virginia vs. Duke - Game Recap - March 3, 2016 - ESPN

Chidom helps Duke women edge Virginia 57-53

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Oderah Chidom scored 20 points, including the clinching free throws with 4.3 seconds left, and eighth-seeded Duke edged ninth-seeded Virginia 57-53 on Thursday in a second-round game of the ACC tournament.

The Blue Devils (20-11), which beat the Cavilers (16-15) for the 24th straight time, face league champion and second-ranked Notre Dame in the quarterfinals on Friday.

J'Kyra Brown hit the last two of three consecutive 3-pointers to turn a five-point deficit into three-point lead with 2:45 to play. From there Virginia missed four shots and two free throws.

With 42 seconds left, Kyra Lambert hit two free throws to make it 54-53 for the Blue Devils.

Azura Stevens, who missed the last seven games with a foot injury, had 14 points and 15 rebounds for Duke, which outrebounded the Cavs 49-32.

Aliyah Huland El had 16 points for Virginia, which made 3 of 10 free throws in the game while Duke was 10 of 12 in the fourth quarter.

With top 3-pointer shooter Rebecca Greenwell day-to-day with a minor injury, Duke was 1 of 15 behind the arc and shot 31 percent overall.

 

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Pittsburgh vs. Miami - Game Recap - March 3, 2016 - ESPN

Motley, Hayes lead No. 21 Miami women past Pitt 77-55

 

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Wake Forest vs. Georgia Tech - Game Recap - March 3, 2016 - ESPN

Georgia Tech women edge Wake Forest 67-65 in ACC

 

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Boston College vs. NC State - Game Recap - March 3, 2016 - ESPN

NC State women beat Boston College 76-60 in ACC Tournament

 

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Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament - Quarterfinal
#2/3 [#1 seed] Notre Dame Fighting Irish (28-1 / 16-0 ACC) vs. [#8 seed] Duke Blue Devils (20-11 / 8-8 ACC)
DATE: March 4, 2016
TIME: 2:00 p.m. ET
AT: Greensboro, N.C. - Greensboro Coliseum (23,500)
SERIES: ND leads DU 12-1 / ND leads UVA 3-2
TV: ACC-Regional Sports Networks/ESPN3/WatchESPN (live)
RADIO: Pulse FM (96.9/92.1)/WatchND (watchnd.tv) (live) (Bob Nagle, p-b-p)
LIVE STATS: theacc.com
TEXT ALERT: UND.com

 

[Old Man Mike]

If Greenwell cannot go then Duke has no chance without mass insanity striking. If she is full go, then we better not be slacking. Greenwell is their on-court Fire, not only a solid player and shooter.

 

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Despite Cable 1-5 and Allen 0-4 shooting cold. ND's doubled up Duke. ND has no turnovers

 

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Allen just got her first basket on a drive off an Duke turnover. Duke losing the turnover battle 7-0. ND 11 pts off turnovers.

 

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Cable trey no good. Hannah with the reb. Drives and hacked. Makes both FTs.

ND by 18

 

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Hannah with an elbow. 6 pts.

 

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Kat with a bounce pass inside to Turner for 2.

 

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Rico coast to coast 6 pts.

 

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Kat missed a 12 footer. Cable got the rebound but the putback bounced out. Maddie fouled and made two.

ND by 18

 

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Allen drive no good at the buzzer.

 

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Halftime ND 39 Duke 24

Halftime ND 39 Duke 24

Matchup DUKE ND
FG Made-Attempted 9-29 14-35
Field Goal % 31.0 40.0
3PT Made-Attempted 3-10 4-11
Three Point % 30.0 36.4
FT Made-Attempted 3-4 7-7
Free Throw % 75.0 100.0
Total Rebounds 21 19
Offensive Rebounds 7 6
Defensive Rebounds 14 13
Team Rebounds 0 0
Assists 4 6
Steals 0 7
Blocks 2 3
Turnovers 9 0
Team Turnovers 0 0
Total Turnovers 9 0
Personal Fouls 6 4
Technical Fouls 0 0
Flagrant Fouls 0 0

 

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IND Stats

IND Stats

Notre Dame

STARTERS	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
B. Turner F	1-4	0-0	0-0	0	3	3	0	1	1	0	1	2
K. Westbeld F	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
M. Cable  G	2-7	2-4	2-2	2	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	8
M. Mabrey G	3-5	2-4	0-0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	8
L. Allen    G	1-6	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	2
BENCH	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
K. Nelson F	0-0	0-0	2-2	1	2	3	0	0	1	0	1	2
H. Huffman G	2-2	0-0	2-2	2	1	3	2	1	0	0	1	6
M. Mabrey G	1-2	0-0	1-1	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	3
Ogunbowale G	3-6	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	6

   TEAM	       14-35	4-11	7-7	6	13	19	6	7	3	0	4	39

 

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Starters Struggling Shooting

Starters Struggling Shooting

Mich, 3-5, is the only starter shooting over 30%.
Cable 2-7
Allen 1-6
Turner 1-4
Kat 1-3
8-25 32%

Bench
Hannah 2-2
Rico 3-6
Marina 1-2
Koko 0-0
Total 6-10 60%

ND has played 9 and all 9 have scored.