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1 ND Women s Basketball: Game 10 #3/3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8-1 / 0-0 ACC) vs. TCU Horned Frogs (7-2 / 0-0 Big 12) udate: Dec. 12, 2015 utime: Noon ET/11:00 a.m. CT uat: Fort Worth, Texas University Recreation Center (1,350) useries: ND leads 1-0 ustreak: ND - won 1 ulast MTG: ND (12/13/90) utv: uradio: Storylines u Notre Dame is making its first visit to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex since u The Fighting Irish and Horned Frogs will be playing almost exactly 25 years to the day after their first meeting at Purcell Pavilion on Dec. 13, 1990 (a Notre Dame win during head coach Muffet McGraw s fourth season with the Fighting Irish). In a season that already has been full of challenges in the opening month, No. 3 Notre Dame will face another test at noon ET (11 a.m CT) Saturday when the Fighting Irish take on TCU at the University Recreation Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The game will be televised live on Fox Sports Net (see page five of this notes package for a list of affiliates that will carry the broadcast), with radio coverage on South Bend s Pulse FM (96.9/92.1) and worldwide online via the official Notre Dame athletics multimedia platform, WatchND (watchnd.tv). The Fighting Irish (8-1) are coming off a shootout win over No. 18/17 DePaul on Wednesday night at Purcell Pavilion. Notre Dame shot a blistering 76.5 percent from the field in the first half, but needed some big plays down the stretch to lock up the victory. Graduate student guard Madison Cable posted her second double-double of the year with game highs of 21 points and 10 rebounds. Rankings u Notre Dame is No. 3 in the latest Associated Press poll and is No. 3 in the latest WBCA/ USA Today poll. u TCU is not ranked. Women s Basketball NCAA National Champions 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 NCAA Finalists 7 NCAA Women s Final Fours 20 Conference Championships Fox Sports Net (live) Ron Thulin, p-b-p Brenda VanLengen, color Pulse FM (96.9/92.1)/WatchND (live) Bob Nagle, p-b-p ulive STATS: UND.com utext ALERT: UND.com Web Sites u Notre Dame: u TCU: u ACC: u Big 12: UND.com gofrogs.com theacc.com big12sports.com Setting The Standard Under the guidance of veteran head coach Muffet McGraw, Notre Dame has evolved into one of the nation s elite women s basketball powers. The Fighting Irish have appeared in 22 NCAA Championships (including a current streak of 20 in a row) and advanced to the NCAA Sweet times in the past 19 years. Notre Dame also has reached the NCAA Women s Final Four seven times, winning college basketball s ultimate prize with the 2001 national championship. In its history, Notre Dame has developed 18 All-Americans, 16 WNBA players (including 13 draft picks in the past 15 years) and 19 international basketball veterans (32 medals won). Now in their 39th season in , the Fighting Irish own an all-time record of (.731). Notre Dame Head Coach Muffet McGraw Karen and Kevin Keyes Family Head Women s Basketball Coach Saint Joseph s 77 u 29th season at Notre Dame ( ,.761) (.751) in 34th season overall u 2011 Women s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee u 2001, 2013, 2014 consensus National Coach of the Year u Six-time conference Coach of the Year Atlantic Coast 2001, BIG EAST Midwestern Collegiate (Horizon League) North Star East Coast (while at Lehigh) Notre Dame s Possible Starting Lineup (C = captain) No Name Pos Ht Yr* PPG RPG Other Notes 33 Kathryn Westbeld F 6-2 So apg Team-high 8 reb./career-high 4 asst. at UConn 3 Marina Mabrey G 5-11 Fr spg Career-high 23 pts (10-13 FG) at UConn 15 Lindsay Allen (C) G 5-8 Jr apg Leads ACC in asst/5th in A/TO ratio (2.36) 22 Madison Cable G 5-11 Grad apg 2 dbl-dbl vs. Top 25 last 3 gms (21p/10r vs. DPU) 23 Michaela Mabrey (C) G 5-10 Sr apg 178 career 3FG made (5th in ND history) Off the Bench For the Fighting Irish 2 Arike Ogunbowale G 5-8 Fr apg Tied career high with 16 pts vs. DePaul 11 Brianna Turner F 6-3 So bpg DNP last 5 gms (inj. shoulder 11/24 practice) 12 Taya Reimer (C) F 6-4 Jr apg Returned to action vs. DePaul (4p/3r) 14 Mychal Johnson G 5-7 So apg Season-high 12 pts (4-4 FG) vs. DePaul 20 Ali Patberg G 5-10 Fr. Will miss season (torn ACL-rt. knee) 21 Kristina Nelson F 6-4 Jr apg Tied career high with 4 reb. at UConn 24 Hannah Huffman G 5-9 Sr apg Career-high 9 reb. vs. OSU in 2nd start 35 Diamond Thompson C 6-5 Jr bpg Career-high 6p/5r/15 min. vs. Denver * = players listed by academic class (Kristina Nelson did not play in and has an additional season of athletic eligibility) Pronunciations: Marina/Michaela Mabrey (MAY-bree); Arike Ogunbowale (uh-ree-kay OH-gun-buh-WALL-ay); Taya Reimer (TAY-uh RYE-mer); Brianna (bree-on-uh) Turner Schedule 8-1 / 0-0 ACC N7 (3/3) Wayne State (exhibition) W, N15 (3/3) Bucknell WatchND W, N18 (3/3) Toledo ESPN3 W, N21 South Dakota State ESPN3 W, N23 Valparaiso ESPN3 W, N27 (3/3) vs. Denver 1 W, N28 (3/3) vs. UCLA 1 W, OT D2 (3/3) Ohio State (10/12) 2-ESPN3 W, D5 Connecticut (1/1) 3-ESPN L, D9 (3/3) DePaul (18/17) ESPN3 W, D12 TCU FSN Noon ET Saint Joseph s (Pa.) 7:00 ET D28 Oregon State ESPN3 7:00 ET D30 Georgia Tech ESPN3 7:00 ET Pittsburgh ACC-RSN 3:00 ET Virginia 7:00 ET J10 North Carolina ESPN2 or ESPN3 1:00 ET Boston College 7:00 ET J18 Tennessee ESPN2-BM 7:00 ET J21 Syracuse ESPN3 7:00 ET J24 Virginia Tech ESPN3 1:00 ET Georgia Tech ACC-RSN 7:00 ET Duke ESPN2-BM 6:00 ET F4 North Carolina State ESPN3 7:00 ET Louisville ESPN or ESPN2 2/4:00 ET F14 Miami ACC-RSN 1:00 ET Wake Forest 7:00 ET Florida State ESPN2-BM 7:00 ET F25 Clemson ESPN3 7:00 ET F27 Boston College WatchND 1:00 ET M2 ACC 1st Round 4-ACC-RSN TBA M3 ACC 2nd Round 4-ACC-RSN TBA M4 ACC Quarterfinal 4-ACC-RSN TBA M5 ACC Semifinal 4-ESPNU TBA M6 ACC Final 4-ESPN 1:00 ET M18-19 NCAA First Round 5-ESPN/ESPN2 TBA M20-21 NCAA Second Round 5-ESPN/ESPN2 TBA M25-26 NCAA Regional Semifinal 6-ESPN TBA M27-28 NCAA Regional Final 6-ESPN TBA A3 NCAA National Semifinals 7-ESPN TBA A5 NCAA Championship Game 7-ESPN TBA (x) = numbers before opponent name indicate Notre Dame s ranking in Associated Press/WBCA-USA Today polls at tipoff; numbers after are opponent ranking; when only one ranking is shown, it is from the AP poll. = Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) game 1 = Junkanoo Jam (Freeport, Bahamas - St. Georges High School) 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge (Notre Dame, Ind. - Purcell Pavilion) 3 = Jimmy V Women s Classic (Storrs, Conn. - Gampel Pavilion) 4 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C. - Greensboro Coliseum) 5 = NCAA Championship - First/Second Rounds (campus sites TBA) 6 = NCAA Championship - Regionals (Bridgeport, Dallas, Lexington, Sioux Falls) 7 = NCAA Women s Final Four (Indianapolis, Ind. - Bankers Life Fieldhouse) BM = Game televised on ESPN2 s Big Monday package ACC-RSN = Game televised on ACC/Regional Sports Networks FSN = Game televised on Fox Sports Net WatchND = Game televised free of charge on official Notre Dame athletics multimedia platform, WatchND (watchnd.tv) All games will be broadcast live on radio on South Bend s Pulse FM (96.9/92.1) and worldwide on Internet via WatchND (watchnd.tv). All times Eastern and subject to change // All home games are listed in boldface and are played inside Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center (capacity 9,149) in Notre Dame, Indiana. Tickets on sale at Notre Dame s Murnane Family Ticket Office, located at Gate 9 of Purcell Pavilion ( ; UND.com/buytickets). 1

2 Quick Hitters Including this week s No. 3 ranking, Notre Dame has appeared in the Associated Press poll for 160 consecutive weeks (the past 90 weeks in the AP Top 10), extending a program record that dates back to the preseason poll, and ranking sixth in the nation among active AP poll appearances. Notre Dame has been ranked in the top 10 of the Associated Press poll for 102 of 113 weeks this decade (since ), ranking second in the nation in that category behind only Connecticut (113). Every current Fighting Irish player has competed for a top-10 Notre Dame squad during her career, with the vast majority of that time (58 of 64 weeks) spent in the top five of the Associated Press poll. Notre Dame also is ranked No. 3 in this week s Women s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA)/USA Today poll. It s the eighth consecutive season and 14 of the past 18 years the Fighting Irish have appeared in the top 10 of the coaches poll. Notre Dame ranks among the top 25 in five NCAA statistical categories (as of Thursday), including four top-10 rankings three-point field-goal percentage (2nd -.467), scoring offense (4th ppg.), field-goal percentage (6th -.504) and assists (9th apg.). The Fighting Irish also rank 17th in assist/turnover ratio (1.29), while tying for 17th in the non-statistical measure of win-loss percentage (.889). Notre Dame has a remarkable tradition of success at home inside Purcell Pavilion, LAST IRISH GAME #3 Notre Dame 95, #18/17 DePaul 90 December 9, 2015 Purcell Pavilion (Notre Dame, Ind.) DePaul (90) Podkowa Grant Jenkins January Schulte Millender Prochaska Coleman Allen Grays Harvey-Carr Team 3 Totals Notre Dame (95) Westbeld Mabrey, Ma Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Ogunbowale Reimer Johnson Huffman Team 4 Totals DePaul Notre Dame FG Pct: DePaul 44.9, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: DePaul 44.4, Notre Dame FT Pct: DePaul 100.0, Notre Dame Turnovers: DePaul 18, Notre Dame 18. Blocked Shots: DePaul 1, Notre Dame 2 (Cable 2). Steals: DePaul 8 (Grant, January 2), Notre Dame 10 (Allen 3). Attendance: 8, with the Fighting Irish owning a (.823) all-time record in 39 seasons at the facility, including a (.943) record since the arena was renovated prior to the season. Including regular season and postseason play, the Fighting Irish have won 75 of their last 79 games against conference opponents (and 26 in a row at home), dating back to their membership in the BIG EAST. Since joining the ACC prior to the season, Notre Dame is 38-1 against conference foes (31-1 regular season, 7-0 postseason). The last ACC school to lose only once in regular-season conference play during a two-year span was Duke in 2003 and Guards Madison Cable, Hannah Huffman and Michaela Mabrey have helped Notre Dame to a (.943) record in their careers, putting them on pace to challenge last year s senior class of Whitney Holloway and Markisha Wright as the most successful in Fighting Irish history. Holloway and Wright helped Notre Dame to a (.935) record in their four-year careers. Since they first suited up at Notre Dame in , Cable, Huffman and Mabrey have paced Notre Dame to two NCAA national championship games and three NCAA Women s Final Fours (plus three conference regular season titles and three league tournament crowns), as well as a 41-6 (.872) record against ranked teams (23-6 against top-10 opponents). With 707 victories in her 29 seasons at Notre Dame, head coach Muffet McGraw ranks second on the Fighting Irish athletics all-time coaching wins list (across all sports), trailing only men s/women s fencing coach Michael DeCicco ( from ). With 795 career wins, McGraw ranks 10th in NCAA Division I coaching history (seventh among active coaches). She also is one of two ACC coaches in the top 10 all-time, along with current North Carolina head coach Sylvia Hatchell (second all-time/first among active with 966 as of Thursday). Other Notre Dame Notables Notre Dame is among the nation s winningest programs during the past seven u211 seasons ( to present), ranking second with 211 victories. Notre Dame has ranked among the top 20 in the nation in average attendance annually since (including top-five rankings the past six years). The Fighting Irish currently rank sixth in the nation this season, averaging 8,560 fans per game at home (nearly 94 percent of Purcell Pavilion s capacity of 9,149), and have drawn at least 5,000 fans to 231 of their last 233 home games, logging 45 sellouts, including 39 since the campaign. The Fighting Irish have become a regular Winningest Teams ( to present) 228 Connecticut 207 Baylor 202 Stanford 185 Tennessee 179 Duke NOTE: through games of Dec. 9. Covering the Irish Notre Dame Athletics Communications C112 Joyce Center, Second Floor Notre Dame, IN phone (574) // fax (574) Chris Masters, Associate Director (WBB - primary) masters.5@nd.edu // cell (574) Leigh Torbin, Assistant Director (WBB - secondary) torbin.1@nd.edu // cell (407) Media Services The official Notre Dame athletics web site (UND.com) contains schedules, rosters, updated statistics and some historical information from previous seasons. Highresolution color headshots and action photos of Fighting Irish players, coaches and staff are available upon request. In-Season Interview Policy All Notre Dame player/coach interview requests must be made through Chris Masters and 24 hours notice is appreciated. Be aware that student-athletes academic obligations always take priority before any interview requests. Media members also may speak to Fighting Irish team personnel before or after practice sessions. While most practices are open to the media, some may be closed at the coaching staff s discretion contact Chris Masters for the latest practice schedule and availability. On game days, no interviews will be granted with any Notre Dame player or coach prior to competition. Credentials / Parking Season credentials will be issued to all media covering the Fighting Irish on a regular basis. Please note all Notre Dame basketball season credentials offer access to both Fighting Irish women s and men s basketball games. For single-game credentials, contact Chris Masters no later than 24 hours before tipoff. Credential requests may be submitted via phone, fax or . Passes will be left at the media will call entrance (Gate 8) of Purcell Pavilion, which opens 90 minutes prior to tipoff. Parking is free for all Fighting Irish women s basketball games in the large lot south of Purcell Pavilion. Media members may park in the Gold Lot (exit off Leahy Drive, adjacent to the baseball/soccer stadia southeast of the arena). Broadcast media may temporarily stop at the Gate 6 (loading dock) arena entrance to unload/load their equipment, but then must park in the designated media lot. Credentials remain the property of the University of Notre Dame and may be revoked at any time. Game Notes Notre Dame s game notes package is made available on-line through the official Fighting Irish athletics web site during the season, usually at least one day prior to tipoff. Notre Dame s game notes are in Adobe PDF format and will be distributed via electronic means only ( or web). Please contact Chris Masters if you wish to be added to the distribution list for Notre Dame s regular women s basketball releases. Gameday Services Gameday packages containing game notes, programs and other information will be available prior to all home contests. A pregame meal also will be served in the Monogram Room media area (exit through stands above Gate 6 to right of press row, entrance on right after exiting outer concourse doors) beginning one hour before tipoff. Purcell Pavilion offers free WiFi and an in-house live stats feed courtesy of StatBroadcast check with Chris Masters for access. Final statistics and quote sheets will be distributed to the media and posted on UND.com following each game. Postgame Interviews Following each Notre Dame home game, Fighting Irish head coach Muffet McGraw and selected players, as well as the visiting head coach and selected players, will be available to speak with the media. Postgame press conferences are held in the Hammes Auditorium, located between Gates 1 & 2 on the first floor of Purcell Pavilion (exit court via Gate 1 ramp on opposite end of court from press row, go straight and turn right at the Notre Dame women s basketball office; auditorium entrance will be on your left). Media members should submit player requests for postgame interviews to Chris Masters no later than the fourth-period media timeout.

3 Standings (as of Dec. 11) ACC Overall W L W L (RV/22) Miami u(3/3) (RV/RV) Virginia Tech (11/9) Florida State (-/RV) Boston College (13/11) Duke North Carolina State (19/25) Syracuse Virginia Georgia Tech Pittsburgh Wake Forest North Carolina (RV/-) Louisville Clemson (n) Ranking in this week s Associated Press/WBCA-USA Today polls ACC Player of the Week Nov Aaliyah Whiteside, Sr., F/G, Georgia Tech Nov Adut Bulgak, Sr., C, Florida State Nov Azurá Stevens, So., F/G, Duke Dec. 7...Vanessa Panousis, Jr., G, Virginia Tech ACC Rookie of the Week Nov Ariel Stephenson, Fr., G, Wake Forest Nov Destinee Walker, Fr., G, North Carolina Nov Marina Mabrey, Fr., G, Notre Dame Dec Mariella Fasoula, Fr., C, Boston College Upcoming ACC Games Friday, December 11 Florida State at Connecticut (ESPN2) 6:00p Saturday, December 12 Notre Dame at TCU (FSN) Noon Arizona State at Syracuse 1:00p Appalachian State at North Carolina 2:00p Pittsburgh at Princeton 3:00p Sunday, December 13 Coppin State at Virginia Tech Noon New Hampshire at Boston College 1:00p Clemson at Tennessee Tech 2:00p Samford at Georgia Tech 2:00p IUPUI at Louisville 2:00p Elon at North Carolina State 2:00p Monday, December 14 Jacksonville at Wake Forest 11:00a Massachusetts at Duke 7:00p North Carolina at Oklahoma State 8:00p Tuesday, December 15 Prairie View A&M at Georgia Tech 6:00p Mercer at Florida State (ESPN3) 6:30p Dartmouth at Louisville 7:00p Wednesday, December 16 USC Upstate at North Carolina 4:00p Western Carolina at North Carolina State 7:30p Thursday, December 17 Liberty at Duke 7:00p Friday, December 18 Clemson at Maine 7:00p Alabama at Georgia Tech 7:00p Louisville at Tennessee Tech 7:00p Charleston Southern at Virginia 7:00p Wake Forest at Coastal Carolina 7:30p - indicates ACC game All times Eastern and subject to change Around the ACC fixture at the WNBA Draft lately, as 13 Notre Dame players have been selected in the past 15 seasons. Jewell Loyd was the most recent Fighting Irish player to be chosen, going No. 1 overall to the Seattle Storm (the first Notre Dame student-athlete selected No. 1 in any American professional sports league draft since Walt Patulski by the NFL s Buffalo Bills). It marked the fourth consecutive year Notre Dame had a player selected among the top three picks in the WNBA Draft (Devereaux Peters went third to Minnesota in 2012, Skylar Diggins was chosen in that same spot by Tulsa [now Dallas] in 2013, and Kayla McBride followed in 2014, selected third overall by San Antonio), making the Fighting Irish the first and only program to produce WNBA Draft lottery choices in four consecutive seasons. Loyd was named the 2015 WNBA Rookie of the Year (the first Notre Dame player chosen for the honor) and joined Natalie Achonwa (drafted in 2014, but didn t suit up for the Indiana Fever until this year due to a knee injury) on the 2015 WNBA All-Rookie Team, giving the Fighting Irish four alumnae on the league s all-rookie squad in the past three seasons (Diggins was picked in 2013 and McBride earned the award in 2014). Diggins, who was a first-team all-wnba selection in 2014, was one of the WNBA s top players and a prime candidate for league MVP honors during the first half of the 2015 season before suffering a knee injury in late June. Nevertheless, she received her second consecutive starting nod for the WNBA All-Star Game as the top vote-getter in the Western Conference (and second overall). Meanwhile, McBride was chosen as a reserve for the Western Conference in this past summer s WNBA All-Star Game and scored 18 points in her all-star debut. Peters became the second Fighting Irish player to earn two WNBA Championship rings, claiming her second in three seasons with the Lynx (and sixth by a Notre Dame alumna), who defeated Achonwa and the Indiana Fever in a memorable five-game WNBA Finals series. Ruth Riley was the first Notre Dame grad to be a two-time WNBA champion, winning a pair of crowns with the Detroit Shock (2003 Finals MVP, 2006), while Coquese Washington toiled for the 2000 Houston Comets and Jacqueline Batteast was Riley s teammate on the 2006 title-winning squad in Detroit. The Notre Dame-TCU Series For the second time in series history, and the first time in almost exactly 25 years, Notre Dame and TCU will square off when they take the hardwood Saturday in Fort Worth. The Fighting Irish won the only prior meeting between the two programs, posting a victory on Dec. 13, 1990, at Purcell Pavilion. The Last Time Notre Dame and TCU Met Comalita Haysbert and Karen Robinson each scored 17 points, leading Notre Dame to a win over TCU on Dec. 13, 1990, at Purcell Pavilion. LAST IRISH GAME vs. TCU Notre Dame 78, TCU 67 December 13, 1990 Purcell Pavilion (Notre Dame, Ind.) TCU (67) Giles Zeller Wells Ham Hesse Bumsted Berlinn Boris Haigood McKinley Team 3 Totals Notre Dame (78) Haysbert Davis Nowlin Robinson Washington Knapp Leary Liebscher Orlosky Alexander Fitzgerald Rupe Jones Team 2 Totals TCU Notre Dame FG Pct: TCU 44.0, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: TCU 50.0, Notre Dame FT Pct: DePaul 77.8, Notre Dame Turnovers: TCU 31, Notre Dame 24. Blocked Shots: TCU 3 (Wells 2), Notre Dame 5 (Davis 2). Steals: TCU 15 (Zeller 4), Notre Dame 22 (Jones 6). Attendance: 310. Haysbert added a team-high seven rebounds, while Robinson had a game-high eight assists and five rebounds. Krissi Davis chipped in 10 points, seven rebounds and five steals, while Tootie Jones came off the bench to record a game-best six steals for the Fighting Irish, who forced 31 TCU turnovers, with 22 coming on steals. Liz Zeller scored a game-high 23 points and eight rebounds for the Horned Frogs. Zeller did much of her damage at the free-throw line, making 13-of-16 foul shots, with both marks still among the top two by an opponent in Purcell Pavilion history, even a quarter century later. Joi Wells added 18 points for TCU, which remained within striking distance all day, thanks to its own defensive prowess that forced 24 turnovers and registered 15 steals. Notre Dame shot.493 from the floor and finished with a rebounding edge, including 16 offensive boards. TCU posted a.440 fieldgoal percentage and was a sharp 21-of-27 from the free-throw line (a.778 clip). The Fighting Irish grabbed a halftime lead and stayed in front the rest of the way, thanks in part to a strong bench unit that doubled up its TCU counterpart, Other Notre Dame-TCU Series Tidbits Saturday s game marks the third time in the past 16 Notre Dame games the Fighting Irish will play a team it had not faced in at least 20 years. In last year s NCAA Championship, Notre Dame defeated Montana, in the 3

4 first round at Purcell Pavilion in the teams first matchup in more than 28 years. Notre Dame then toppled Stanford, in the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional semifinals (Sweet 16) in Oklahoma City in its first game against the Cardinal since Notre Dame will be playing in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex for the second time in program history, and the first in more than three decades. On Jan. 15, 1984, the Fighting Irish dropped a narrow decision at SMU. Notre Dame is (.476) all-time against Texas schools, having won its last three games against a Lone Star State team (83-74 vs. No. 2 Texas A&M on 21, 2012, at the World Vision Classic in Las Vegas; vs. Baylor on March 31, 2014, in the NCAA Elite Eight at Purcell ND vs. State of Texas Overall Away* Baylor Rice SMU Texas Texas A&M utcu Texas State Texas Tech TOTAL (.476) (.375) * - road/neutral sites combined Pavilion; vs. Baylor on March 29, 2015, in NCAA Elite Eight at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma). Factoring in its numerous visits to the state for postseason tournaments (both NCAA and NWIT), Notre Dame is (.417) all-time when playing in Texas. The last Fighting Irish victory in the Lone Star State came on March 15, 1998, when Notre Dame won at No. 6/5 Texas Tech, 74-59, in the second round of the NCAA Championship (Midwest Region) behind a game-high 23 points from then-freshman center Ruth Riley. Notre Dame last played in Texas on Nov. 20, 2011, dropping a decision at No. 1 Baylor in the Preseason WNIT championship game. Notre Dame has had five players on its alltime roster from the state of Texas, including current sophomore forward Brianna Turner (Pearland). Kelly Hicks ( ; Bandera) was the first Lone Star State product to suit up for the Fighting Irish, followed by Ellen Mauch (1987; Mineral Wells). In addition, two members of Notre Dame s 2001 NCAA national championship team came from Texas Imani Dunbar ( ; San Angelo) and Amanda Barksdale ( ; Friendswood). Notre Dame vs. The Big 12 Conference Notre Dame is (.733) all-time against current Big 12 Conference members, including a (.655) record away from home (road/neutral sites combined). The vast majority of those results have come against West Virginia, which the Fighting Irish played annually when the Mountaineers were members of the BIG EAST Conference from Notre Dame has won its last six games against Big 12 teams, including four in NCAA Championship play (two against Baylor, both in the Elite Eight; one each against Kansas and Oklahoma State in the Sweet 16). 4 Notre Dame In the Polls Associated Press Poll Weeks Ranked Week Pts Rank All-Time Nov. 3, 2015 (Pre) Nov. 16, Nov. 23, Nov. 30, Dec. 7, SEASON HIGHS * 160* WBCA/USA Today Coaches Poll Weeks Ranked Week Pts Rank All-Time Oct. 29, 2015 (Pre) Nov. 17, Nov. 24, Dec. 1, Dec. 8, SEASON HIGHS * 127* * = current streak of poll appearances // first-place votes in parentheses Aside from its annual matchups with WVU prior to 12-13, Notre Dame will be playing a current Big 12 opponent for the 20th time since that conference was founded in However, in an odd coincidence, 15 of the previous 19 games were played in a tournament format, including 12 in NCAA Championship play (9-3 record; games in boldface): 1997 NCAA East Region second round at Texas (W, 86-83) 1998 NCAA Midwest Region second round at Texas Tech (W, 74-59) 2000 NCAA Mideast Regional semifinal vs. Texas Tech at Memphis (L, 69-65) 2003 NCAA East Region second round at Kansas State (W, 59-53) 2008 NCAA Oklahoma City Region second round vs. Oklahoma at West Lafayette, Ind. (W, 79-75, ot) ND vs. Big 12 Overall Away* BU ISU KU KSU OU OSU UT utcu TTU WVU TOTAL (.733) (.655) * - road/neutral sites combined 2009 Paradise Jam Island Division championship vs. Oklahoma at St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. (W, 81-71) 2010 NCAA Kansas City Regional semifinal vs. Oklahoma at Kansas City, Mo. (L, 77-72, ot) 2011 NCAA Dayton Regional semifinal vs. Oklahoma at Dayton, Ohio (W, 78-53) 2011 Preseason WNIT championship at Baylor (L, 94-81) 2012 NCAA national championship game vs. Baylor at Denver, Colo. (L, 80-61) 2012 World Vision Classic second round vs. Kansas State at Las Vegas, Nev. (W, 87-57) 2013 NCAA Norfolk Regional semifinal vs. Kansas at Norfolk, Va. (W, 93-63) 2014 NCAA Notre Dame Regional semifinal vs. Oklahoma State at Notre Dame, Ind. (W, 89-72) 2014 NCAA Notre Dame Regional final vs. Baylor at Notre Dame, Ind. (W, 88-69) National Polls Associated Press Poll December 7, 2015: Poll #5 Team (First-Place Votes) Rec Pts LP 1 uconnecticut (32) South Carolina Baylor (tie) Maryland (tie) Texas uoregon State Kentucky Mississippi State uohio State uflorida State Northwestern uduke Stanford Texas A&M utennessee Oklahoma udepaul usyracuse uucla South Florida California Iowa Arizona State Michigan State Others Receiving Votes: umiami 78, St. John s 58, Seton Hall 46, Missouri 40, Georgia 37, uvirginia Tech 34, USC 26, Princeton 19, Oklahoma State 12, Nebraska 6, VCU 6, Florida 4, Purdue 4, BYU 2, ulouisville 1, Idaho 1, Oregon 1. WBCA/USA Today Coaches Poll December 8, 2015: Poll #5 Team (First-Place Votes) Rec Pts LP 1 uconnecticut (32) South Carolina Baylor Maryland Texas uoregon State Kentucky uflorida State Mississippi State uduke Stanford uohio State Northwestern utennessee Texas A&M udepaul Oklahoma Iowa South Florida California umiami Michigan State Arizona State usyracuse Others Receiving Votes: Seton Hall 55, Princeton 41, uu- CLA 39, Nebraska 26, Missouri 22, St. John s 20, Dayton 19, Oregon 16, Georgia 13, Florida 8, Oklahoma State 8, uvirginia Tech 6, George Washington 6, Auburn 4, Washington 4, uboston College 3, Idaho 2, Army West Point 1, BYU 1. LP = last poll u = Notre Dame opponent

5 Notre Dame Leads Series 1-0 Date Site Result Score 12/13/90 Notre Dame W Series Scoring Total Average Notre Dame TCU Current Win Streak: Notre Dame - 1 game Muffet McGraw vs. TCU: 2-0 (1-0 at Lehigh) Raegan Pebley vs. Notre Dame: First meeting McGraw vs. Pebley: First meeting ND Biggest Win: 11 (78-67 on 12/13/90) TCU Biggest Win: None ND Longest Win Streak: 1 (1990) TCU Longest Win Streak: None THE TALE OF THE TAPE ND TCU Overall/conference record 8-1/ /0-0 AP/WBCA-USA Today poll 3/3 SCORING Points scored per game Points allowed per game Field goal percentage Three-point percentage Free throw percentage REBOUNDING Rebounds per game Opponent rebs. per game Rebounding margin OTHER Assists per game Turnovers per game Assist/turnover ratio Blocked shots per game Steals per game TCU Series 2014 Hall of Fame Challenge vs. Kansas at Uncasville, Conn. (W, 89-47) 2015 NCAA Oklahoma City Regional final vs. Baylor at Oklahoma City, Okla. (W, 77-68) Doing Some Networking Saturday s game will air on Fox Sports Net as part of the Big 12 s television package. Fans wishing to tune in and watch Saturday s FSN broadcast of the Notre Dame-TCU game should check their local listings (on consult the accompanying box) for the latest rundown of affiliates that will carry the game. Several affiliates will carry the game either on a delayed or repeat basis through Dec. 16, including all three Fox College Sports affiliates (Atlantic, Central and Pacific). At press time, there is no indication the game will be streamed online. Three For The Money Notre Dame has heated up from the threepoint line in a big way, canning 64 treys this season (7.1 per game), including 49 in its last five games alone. At their current pace, the Fighting Irish would easily top the single-season program record for three-pointers per game (5.74 in ). In fact, only once in the past 13 seasons has Notre Dame averaged five treys per game ( , when it made exactly five per contest and a school-record 190 total). The Fighting Irish tied a school record with 13 three-pointers on Dec. 5 at top-ranked Connecticut. The 13 triples (which Notre Dame last registered on Jan. 2, 2002, at Miami) also matched two UConn opponent records for three-pointers in a single game (overall and Gampel Pavilion). Notre Dame s season-high.650 three-point percentage (13-of-20) in that Dec. 5 game at UConn was the highest against the Huskies since March 26, 2007, when LSU made 7-of- 10 three-pointers (.700) against UConn in the NCAA Fresno Regional final (Elite Eight) in Fresno, California. The Fighting Irish rank second in the nation in three-point percentage (as of Thursday), connecting at a.467 clip from beyond the arc. FSN TV ND vs. TCU (live coverage only) Fox Sports Detroit Fox Sports Midwest Fox Sports North Plus Fox Sports Ohio Fox Sports Oklahoma Fox Sports Southeast Fox Sports Southwest Fox Sports Sun Fox Sports West Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus MASN MSG Plus ROOT Sports Northwest ROOT Sports Pittsburgh ROOT Sports Rocky Mtn. NOTE: Additional outlets will carry the game delayed or on a repeat basis, although outlets and broadcast dates/ times are subject to change; check local listings for latest information. Streak Stats Dating back to the start of the season, Notre Dame has posted a (.943) record. In that four-year span, six of the seven Fighting Irish losses have come against top-three teams, including the past five against Connecticut No. 3 Baylor (73-61 on Dec. 5, 2012, at Purcell Pavilion), No. 3 Connecticut (83-65 on April 7, 2013, in the NCAA Women s Final Four national semifinals at New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana), No. 1 Connecticut (79-58 on April 8, 2014, in the NCAA Women s Final Four national championship game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee), No. 3 Connecticut (76-58 on Dec. 6, 2014, in the Jimmy V Classic at Purcell Pavilion), No. 1 Connecticut (63-53 on April 7, 2015, in the NCAA Women s Final Four national championship game at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida) and No. 1 Connecticut (91-81 on Dec. 5, 2015, in the Jimmy V Classic in Storrs, Connecticut). The other loss came on Jan. 8, 2015, with a setback at Miami. That defeat ended Notre Dame s 61-game winning streak against unranked opponents in the Associated Press poll, the second-longest active run in the nation (research for this note provided by STATS via the AP). Poise Under Pressure Notre Dame has won its last 22 games decided by single digits and/or in overtime, including three times this season (all within the past four games) a overtime win over UCLA on Nov. 28 in the Junkanoo Jam Freeport Division championship game in Freeport, Bahamas; a victory over No. 10/12 Ohio State on Dec. 2 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge at Purcell Pavilion, and a win over No. 18/17 DePaul on Dec. 9 at Purcell Pavilion. The Fighting Irish last dropped a single-digit decision on March 6, 2012, falling at No. 4 Connecticut in the BIG EAST Conference Tournament championship game at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Notre Dame has been sharp when pushed to overtime, having won six in a row and eight of its last 11 games when going to an extra session. Visiting Century City Notre Dame s victory at Valparaiso on Nov. 23 was its 13th 100-point game since the start of the season (and nine other games of points), a remarkable offensive explosion considering Notre Dame had 13 triple-digit games in the first 34 years of the program s existence and just four in the 12 seasons prior to its current run. Road Warriors Notre Dame has enjoyed remarkable success on the road in recent seasons, having won 47 of its last 49 (and 54 of its last 61) regular season road games. The only blemishes for the Fighting Irish in this current run (which dates back to the early portion of the campaign) are a loss at Miami on Jan. 8, 2015, and a defeat at top-ranked Connecticut on Dec. 5, 2015, in the Jimmy V Classic. The loss in Miami snapped Notre Dame s NCAA Division I record-tying 30-game road winning streak. It was an amazing string of results in hostile territory, a streak that lasted 5

6 exactly three years (Jan. 4, 2012-Jan. 4, 2015) and left Notre Dame tied with Connecticut for the NCAA Division I all-time mark in that category. One of the more notable highlights of Notre Dame s sensational recent road run came on Jan. 5, 2013, when Notre Dame edged No. 1 Connecticut, 73-72, at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut, earning its fourth alltime win over a top-ranked opponent and first-ever victory on the road. Irish Enjoy Quality Cable Graduate student guard Madison Cable has taken her game to new heights this season, averaging a team-high 17.0 points per game (third in the ACC). Entering this year, Cable was averaging 5.3 ppg. in her career, including a personal-best 6.2 ppg. last season. Cable also is making an early run at the shooter s Holy Grail the club (referring to one s shooting percentages from the field, three-point line and free-throw line). Cable leads the ACC in three-point percentage ( fourth in nation) while ranking fourth in three-pointers per game (3.0), fifth in field-goal percentage ( th in nation) and 13th in free-throw percentage (.769). Prior to this season, Cable had started nine games in her first three years combined, registering 18 double-digit scoring games, two 20-point outings and one doubledouble. In nine games this season, Cable has started each time out, scoring in double figures in every game (the first time Madison Cable Season Improvement PPG p gms p gms 1 4 Dbl-Dbl 1 2 FG% FG% FT% RPG APG SPG Gms Started 6 9 NOTE: Played in 39 games last year; nine games to date this year she has posted a string of more than three consecutive double-digit games) and has four 20-point games, including a career-high 25 points on Dec. 2 against No. 10/12 Ohio State at Purcell Pavilion in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. That game against Ohio State also yielded Cable s second career double-double when she grabbed a team-high (and season-best) 11 rebounds. She s as good a shooter as there is in college basketball, and she played great tonight. Ohio State head coach Kevin McGuff after Cable had 25 points, 11 rebounds and made two clutch plays (threepointer with 56.2 seconds left; two foul shots with 7.5 seconds left) in Notre Dame s win over the No. 10/12 Buckeyes on Dec. 2 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Cable added her third career double-double on Dec. 9 with game highs of 21 points and 10 rebounds in a win over No. 18/17 DePaul. Cable was chosen the Junkanoo Jam Freeport Division MVP, after she averaged 17.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game with a.688 field goal percentage,.667 three point percentage and.875 free throw 6 percentage during Notre Dame s two games in the Bahamas. Cable continues her penchant for sacrificing her body for team success, having drawn four charges this season to raise her career count to 41 drawn charges. That includes Cable s alert play in overtime of the win over UCLA, when she took a charge from Bruins all-pac-12 guard (and Canadian National Team member) Nirra Fields with 30.1 seconds left, resulting in the fifth foul on Fields and giving Notre Dame possession with a six-point lead (in essence, clinching the win). Mabrey is Jersey Tough Freshman guard Marina Mabrey is quickly emerging as one of the top young players in the Atlantic Coast Conference, if not all of Division I basketball. The Belmar, New Jersey, native is averaging 13.4 points per game, which is tied for 15th in the ACC and second among conference freshmen. She also has scored in double figures six times this season, including a career-high 23 points (on 10-of-13 shooting) on Dec. 5 at top-ranked Connecticut. In that UConn game, Mabrey scored 21 points in the first half on 9-of-10 shooting, including a stretch of 12 consecutive points to highlight a 14-4 second-quarter run that helped give Notre Dame a trio of one-point leads. Mabrey also has proven to be a strong defender, ranking fifth in the ACC at 2.9 steals per game. That mark was highlighted by a school-record 12 steals as part of a tripledouble performance on Nov. 23 at Valparaiso (see following note). Mabrey was named to the Junkanoo Jam Freeport Division All-Tournament Team on Nov. 28 after averaging 18.5 points, 5.0 steals, 3.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists with a.600 field-goal percentage,.750 three-point percentage and.833 free-throw percentage during wins over Denver and UCLA in the two-day event in Freeport, Bahamas. That effort, plus her triple-double earlier in the week, propelled Mabrey to earn ACC Rookie of the Week honors on Nov. 30. Mabrey s Historic Triple-Double Freshman guard Marina Mabrey posted the fifth triple-double in school history (first by a freshman) with 18 points, a school-record 12 steals and a career-high 10 assists on Nov. 23 at Valparaiso. Mabrey became just the second Fighting Irish player to record a triple-double using steals. Mary Gavin (17 points, 14 assists and 10 steals the previous school record for steals before Mabrey s effort) was the only other player to do so on Jan. 31, 1987, against Marquette. Mabrey s triple-double in her fourth career game tied for the second-quickest to start a career in NCAA Division I history only Schaquilla Nunn of Winthrop did so faster (third career game on Nov. 20, 2012, vs. Mississippi State at the Hardwood for Hope Tournament in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico). Mabrey s triple-double was the 25th in ACC Trends Day of the Week Sunday 1-0 Monday 1-0 Tuesday 0-0 Wednesday 3-0 Thursday 0-0 Friday 1-0 Saturday 2-1 Time of Game Day games (before 6 p.m local time) 4-1 Night games (6 p.m. or later local time) 4-0 Location Home games 4-0 Road games 2-1 Neutral site games 2-0 Halftime score Leading at the half 8-0 Tied at the half 0-0 Trailing at the half 0-1 Individual scoring Two or fewer double-figure scorers 0-0 Three double-figure scorers 3-0 Four double-figure scorers 2-0 Five or more double-figure scorers 3-1 Rebounding margin Grab more rebounds than opponents 5-0 Grab same number of rebounds 1-0 Grab fewer rebounds than opponents 2-1 Field goal shooting Higher pct. than opponent 6-0 Same pct. as opponent 0-0 Lower pct. than opponent 2-1 Shoot 45% or better 6-1 Shoot less than 45% 2-0 Hold opponent under 40% 4-0 Free throw margin Make more free throws 7-0 Make same number of free throws 0-0 Make fewer free throws 1-1 Turnovers Commit fewer turnovers 6-0 Commit same number of turnovers 1-0 Commit more turnovers 1-1 Uniform Combinations In white jerseys 6-0 In alternate white jerseys (green trim) 0-0 In alternate white jerseys (pink trim) 0-0 In blue jerseys 2-1 Miscellaneous Vs. Top 25 (AP or WBCA/USA Today polls) 2-1 On commercial television 5-1 In overtime games 1-0 Margin of Victory 1-5 points points points points points 4-0 Conference Affiliation ACC 0-0 American 0-1 Atlantic BIG EAST 1-0 Big Ten 1-0 Big Conference USA 0-0 Horizon League 1-0 Mid-American 1-0 Pac Patriot League 1-0 Southeastern 0-0 Summit League 2-0 Month November 6-0 December 2-1 January 0-0 February 0-0 March 0-0 April 0-0

7 Notre Dame Quick Facts Official Name: University of Notre Dame Location: Notre Dame, Ind. Enrollment: 8,448 (undergraduate) / 12,179 (overall) Founded: 1842 Colors: Gold and Blue Nickname: Fighting Irish School Fight Song: Notre Dame Victory March Conference: Atlantic Coast Arena: Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center (cap. 9,149) President: Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Provost: Thomas G. Burish Executive Vice President: John Affleck-Graves NCAA Faculty Representative: Patricia Bellia Vice President/Director of Athletics: Jack Swarbrick Senior Deputy Athletics Director/SWA: Missy Conboy Sr. Associate Athletics Director (WBB): Jill Bodensteiner Head Coach: Muffet McGraw (Saint Joseph s (Pa.) 77) Record: (.751) - 34th season At Notre Dame: (.761) - 29th season At Home (all but one game/win at Purcell Pavilion): (.859) Associate Head Coach: Carol Owens (Northern Illinois 90) - 16th season Associate Coach: Beth Cunningham (Notre Dame 97) - 4th season Associate Coach/Recruiting Coordinator: Niele Ivey (Notre Dame 00) - 9th season Director of Basketball Operations: Katie Capps (Western Kentucky 02) - 1st season Video Coordinator: Garret Garcia (Toledo 12) - 2nd season Athletic Trainer: Anne Marquez Strength & Conditioning Coach: Craig Cheek Academic Counselor: Amanda Hall Equipment Manager: Kathy Speybroeck Student Managers: Becca Moore (head), Lizzy Moulton (head), Allie Griffith, Katie Higgins, Maggie Rogers, Jasmine Smith, Annie Timmerman Women s Basketball History 39th Season: 1st game, Dec. 3, 1977 vs. Valparaiso (W, 48-41) All-Time Record: (.731) Record At Home (all but one game/win at Purcell Pavilion): 39th season, (.823) Record In Conference (regular season): 33rd season, (.812) Conference/Membership Affiliations: AIAW D-III independent ( through ) AIAW D-I independent ( ) NCAA D-I independent ( through ) North Star ( through ) *Midwestern Collegiate ( through ) BIG EAST ( through ) Atlantic Coast ( to present) Regular Season Conference Championships (12): North Star , 1986 *Midwestern Collegiate (s), 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995 BIG EAST (s), 2012, 2013 ACC , 2015 (s) - shared Conference Tournament Championships (8): North Star - N/A *Midwestern Collegiate , 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994 BIG EAST ACC , 2015 NCAA Championship Appearances (22): National Champion National Finalist , 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Final Four , 2001, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Elite , 2001, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Sweet , , , 2008, Berths , Consecutive NCAA Championship Appearances: 20 (1996-present) NIT Appearances (4): 1986 (3rd place), 1989 (7th place), 1991 (8th place), 1995 (3rd place) Consecutive Postseason Appearances: 22 (1994-present); 21 NCAAs, 1 NIT * - now known as the Horizon League Quick Facts history, and the the first in ACC history to feature steals. Mabrey was the second ACC freshman ever to record a triple-double, joining Duke s Elizabeth Williams (18 points, 16 rebounds and 12 blocks at Wake Forest on Jan. 6, 2012) in that elite company. Mabrey s 12 steals also are second on the ACC single-game steals list, and the most since Georgia Tech s Jill Ingram had 14 thefts (tying the NCAA Division I record) against Virginia Tech on Feb. 29, Mabrey s 12 steals tied for the second-most by a player in completing a triple-double, exceeded only by Old Dominion s Ticha Penicheiro (22 points, 15 assists, 14 steals) vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) in the first round of the NCAA Championship on March 13, Mabrey was the first Fighting Irish player with double-digit assists in a game since Feb. 24, 2013, when Skylar Diggins had 10 assists at DePaul as part of her second career triple-double (the most recent one by a Notre Dame player before Mabrey) Notre Dame Top Bench Scorers Player Points Opponent/Date Marina Mabrey 23 at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Marina Mabrey 19 vs. Denver, 11/27/15 Marina Mabrey 18 vs. UCLA, 11/28/15 Marina Mabrey 18 at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Arike Ogunbowale 16 DePaul, 12/9/15 Arike Ogunbowale 16 at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Marina Mabrey 16 Bucknell, 11/15/15 Mychal Johnson 12 DePaul, 12/9/15 Arike Ogunbowale 12 at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Arike Ogunbowale 10 #10/12 Ohio State, 12/2/15 Kristina Nelson 10 at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Game-high scorers in italics Game #9 Recap: DePaul It goes in the record book as a win over another ranked team for No. 3 Notre Dame, but a nearcollapse in the second half did not sit well with coach Muffet McGraw. The Fighting Irish scored 65 points in the first half Wednesday night and built a 26-point lead over No. 18/17 DePaul, but had to hold off a furious Blue Demons rally down the stretch to come away with a victory. I thought we got complacent in the second half, and we can t do that, McGraw said. The defense was just absolutely unacceptable. Madison Cable had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Irish (8-1), who shot 76.5 percent from the field (26-of-34) in the first half, including 8 of 11 from 3-point range. Notre Dame broke the Blue Demons signature press during its fast start. DePaul opponents were averaging just over 60 points per game coming in, but the Fighting Irish hit 61 with 2:20 left in the first half. They were on fire, making tough, long shots, and we were giving up too many layups, De- Paul coach Doug Bruno said. We went back to traditional, straight man (defense) and that s really what stabilized us. DePaul (6-3) used a 19-5 run in the third quarter to get back into the game. Chanise Jenkins scored 21 points and Jessica January added 17 for the Blue Demons, who hit 9-of-13 3-pointers in the second half. Jenkins finished 4-for-6 from the arc. We said we can come back and win this thing, Jenkins said. There s no way we should be down that much so we buckled down. Notre Dame got 38 points off the bench, led by Arike Ogunbowale s 16. Freshman Marina Mabrey made her first career start and also finished with 16 points. Lindsay Allen added 12 points and eight assists. The Fighting Irish faced their third straight ranked opponent and now have won eight straight against the Blue Demons, who haven t beaten them since Notre Dame took control in the second quarter with a 23-4 run, including 14 straight capped by Michaela Mabrey s 3-pointer from the left wing. At that point, Notre Dame had made 22 of its 27 shots. The Fighting Irish had seven turnovers in the first seven minutes of the game, but also hit 11 of their first 12 shots and broke the DePaul press to take an eight-point lead on Ogunbowale s layup with 2:02 left in the first quarter. They pressed us in the first half and we handled that really well, McGraw said. Credit their defense, they changed what they were doing. Beyond The Box Score: DePaul Notre Dame s.765 field-goal percentage in the first half was the seventh-best mark for a single half (and third-best in the first half) of any game in school history, and the best shooting half since Dec. 30, 2011 (.800 in the first half at Mercer). Notre Dame has won 22 consecutive games decided by single digits and/or in overtime, including three of the past four games. The Fighting Irish are 41-6 (.872) against ranked opponents in the past four years. Notre Dame s 95 points were the most it has scored against a Top 25 opponent since Feb. 27, 2014, when it defeated No. 14/11 North Carolina, at Purcell Pavilion. The 185 combined points tied for the 10thmost in a Notre Dame game in program history and most since last year s regularseason game at DePaul (which the Fighting Irish won in overtime). This was the highest scoring regulation game (in terms of combined points) for Notre Dame since Jan. 19, 2008, when it earned a win at Georgetown, highest at Purcell Pavilion since Jan. 7, 1999 (a win over West Virginia, the school record for combined points in a game), and the highest against a ranked opponent since Dec. 4, 1999 (a win over No. 9/12 North Carolina at the Wachovia Women s Basketball Invitational in Richmond, Virginia. Notre Dame s 65 first-half points tied for the fourth-most by the Fighting Irish in any half in school history (third-most in the first half of any game) and most since they scored 66 points in the first half against Utah State on Dec. 8, Notre Dame s 34 first-quarter points were a season high for the Fighting Irish in any quarter. Notre Dame s 11 three-point field-goals tied its Purcell Pavilion record set twice before 7

8 (most recently on Jan. 23, 1999, against St. John s). DePaul s 16-of-16 free-throw performance was the best by a visiting team (and the first perfect shooting night from the line with a minimum of 10 attempts) in Purcell Pavilion history. Notre Dame shot a season-best.621 from the field. The Fighting Irish have won a series-long eight in a row against DePaul and are all-time against their Midwest rivals. Notre Dame s 95 points were its highest ever total in the DePaul series. This marked the eighth of the past 14 series games between Notre Dame and DePaul that was decided by single digits. The Fighting Irish won their 14th consecutive game coming off a double-digit loss and improved to (.827) since in that circumstance. Cable collected her third career doubledouble and second this year, both against Top 25 teams. Cable also tied her career high with five three-pointers, having first done so a week earlier against Ohio State. Ogunbowale tied her career high with 16 points, having first reached that total on Nov. 23 at Valparaiso. Marina Mabrey made her first college start. Sophomore guard Mychal Johnson played a career-high 28 minutes and logged her first double-digit scoring game since she had 13 points against Boston College on Jan. 11, New Rules To Live By The season marks a new era in NCAA women s basketball as several significant rule changes have been introduced. Here are just a few of the differences fans can expect: Four 10-minute periods, replacing the former two 20-minute halves. No more 1-and-1 bonus situations beginning with the fifth foul in each period, teams will shoot two free throws. The team foul counts also reset at the start of each period. Four team timeouts per game (one full, three 30-second eliminates one 30-second timeout), and only three carry over to the second half. Seven media timeouts (taken at the first deadball situation at or under 5:00 in each period, unless a team calls timeout first, which then replaces the media break). There also will be media timeouts at the end of the first and third periods, and on the first team-called timeout of the second half, no matter when it occurs all told, this results in two fewer media timeouts per game than previous seasons. The 10-second backcourt rule has been modified and the count will no longer reset when the ball is tipped out of bounds by the defense, a held ball is forced by the defense (with the offense maintaining possession) or the offense calls a timeout. With 59.9 seconds or less remaining in the game, teams may call timeout on a deadball situation (prior to inbounding the ball), after a made basket or immediately after grabbing a rebound (without dribbling or passing) and exercise the option to move their inbounds position up into the front court at the 28-foot mark (noted by a hashmark on the sideline near each team s bench). Polling Station Notre Dame is ranked No. 3 in this week s Associated Press poll, its 90th consecutive week in the top 10 of the media balloting (84 of those in the top five), dating back to the middle of the season and marking 160 consecutive weeks in the AP poll. The Fighting Irish continue to extend the program record for consecutive poll appearances that started with the AP preseason poll in (the old record was 59 consecutive weeks from ), while Notre Dame is one of six teams in the nation with an active streak of at least 150 consecutive AP poll appearances. Every current Notre Dame player has competed for a top-10 Fighting Irish squad throughout her career (64 consecutive weeks for the current senior class), spending the vast majority (58) of those appearances in the AP Top 5 (and never lower than seventh). This represents the 16th time in 17 years (starting with the campaign) that Notre Dame has appeared in the preseason AP poll, something only five schools in the nation have done Connecticut, Duke and Tennessee have shown up in all 17 during that span, while Stanford joins the Fighting Irish with 16 preseason AP poll berths. Notre Dame has been ranked in the AP poll for 299 weeks during the program s 39-year history, with every one of those appearances coming in the Muffet McGraw era (since ). McGraw is seventh among active NCAA Division I head coaches for weeks in the AP poll, and 14th alltime. AP Poll Appearances Active D-I Coaches 1. VanDerveer (Stan) Auriemma (UConn) Hatchell (UNC) Blair (TAMU) umcgraw (ND) 299 All-Time D-I Coaches 1. Summitt (Tenn) Landers (UGa) VanDerveer (Stan) Ryan (UVa) Yow (NCST) Blair (TAMU) umcgraw (ND) 299 NOTES: through Dec. 7 AP poll; most recent team coached is listed The Fighting Irish are No. 3 in this week s WBCA/USA Today coaches poll after appearing in the preseason coaches balloting for the seventh consecutive year. Notre Dame has been ranked in the coaches poll for 163 of the past 164 weeks (and 127 in a row), falling just outside the Top 25 in the final poll of the season. Nevertheless, the Fighting Irish have appeared in the Active AP Poll Streaks 1. Tennessee Connecticut Duke Stanford Baylor u Superlatives ( pres.) Notre Dame Superlatives ( to present) Longest winning streak: 37 games (Nov. 9, 2013-April 6, 2014) Longest conference winning streak: 38 games (Feb. 14, 2012-Jan. 4, 2015) Longest losing streak: 3 games, four times (most recently: Feb. 24-March 3, 2007) Longest conference losing streak: 3 games, twice (most recently: Feb. 24-March 3, 2007) Most points scored in a game: 128, twice (most recently: vs. Saint Francis-Pa., Dec. 31, 2012) Most points scored in a conference game: 120 vs. Pittsburgh, Jan. 17, 2012 Fewest points scored in a game: 38 vs. Villanova, Jan. 24, 2004 Fewest points scored in a non-conference game: 39 vs. Villanova, March 9, 2003 (BIG EAST tourn.) Most points allowed in a game: 106 by Connecticut, Dec. 8, 1998 Most points allowed in a non-conference game: 96 by Connecticut, March 2, 1999 (BIG EAST tourn.) Fewest points allowed in a game: 21 by Southeast Missouri State, Jan. 2, 2011 Fewest points allowed in a conference game: 31 by St. John s, Feb. 13, 2002 Largest margin of victory: 86 at Mercer (128-42), Dec. 30, 2011 Largest margin of victory in a conference game: 76 vs. Pittsburgh, Jan. 17, 2012 Largest margin of victory in home game: 76, twice (most recently: vs. Pittsburgh, Jan. 17, 2012) Largest margin of victory in road game: 86 at Mercer (128-42), Dec. 30, 2011 Largest losing margin: 39 at Tennessee (89-50), March 17, 2002 (NCAA tourn.) Most points allowed in a win: 93, twice (most recently: at DePaul (94-93, ot), Dec. 10, 2014) Most points scored in a loss: 84 vs. Texas A&M (88-84, ot), Dec. 3, 1995 Fewest points scored in a win: 38 vs. Villanova (38-36), Jan. 24, 2004 Fewest points allowed in a loss: 48 vs. Villanova (48-45), Feb. 26, 2002 Largest deficit overcome to win a game: 18, twice (most recently: vs. Duke (56-54), Nov. 26, 2011) Largest deficit overcome to win a home game: 15, twice (MR: vs. Syracuse (79-68), Feb. 26, 2013) Largest lead given up in a loss: 17 vs. Texas Tech (69-65), March 25, 2000 (NCAA tourn.) Most consecutive points scored: 36 vs. Southeast Missouri State (97-21), Jan. 2, 2011 Most consecutive points scored (start of game): 36 vs. Southeast Missouri State (97-21), Jan. 2, 2011 Largest halftime lead: 46 vs. Harvard (59-13), Nov. 24, 2014 Largest halftime deficit: 26 at Tennessee (53-27), March 17, 2002 Highest field goal percentage:.702 (40-57) at Mercer, Dec. 30, 2011 Lowest field goal percentage:.220 (13-59) at Seton Hall, March 1, 2005 Highest three-point percentage: (5-5) vs. Duke, Nov. 17, 2004 Highest free throw percentage: (18-18) at Valparaiso, Nov. 30, 2004 Most three-point field goals made: 13, three times (most recently: at Connecticut, Dec. 5, 2015) Most free throws made: 43 at Mercer, Dec. 30, 2011 Most rebounds: 67 vs. Duke, Nov. 21, 1998 Most assists: 38 vs. Saint Francis (Pa.), Dec. 31, 2012 Most blocked shots: 16 vs. Boston College, Feb. 10, 2002 Most steals: 36 vs. New Hampshire, Nov. 12, 2010 Most turnovers forced: 49 vs. New Hampshire, Nov. 12, 2010 Fewest turnovers committed: 3 at Maryland, Nov. 16, 2007 NOTE: Conference marks reflect BIG EAST membership from to 12-13; ACC membership since

9 G Lindsay Allen Naismith Trophy Early Season Watch List Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 List The Sporting News Preseason All-America Third Team Preseason All-ACC Team (Blue Ribbon Panel/Coaches) G Madison Cable Junkanoo Jam Most Valuable Player (Freeport Division) Junkanoo Jam All-Tournament Team (Freeport Division) G Marina Mabrey ACC Rookie of the Week (Nov. 30) Junkanoo Jam All-Tournament Team (Freeport Division) ACC Newcomer Watch List (Blue Ribbon Panel) G Arike Ogunbowale ACC Newcomer Watch List (Blue Ribbon Panel/Coaches) F Brianna Turner Naismith Trophy Early Season Watch List USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 List Sports Illustrated Preseason All-America First Team The Sporting News Preseason All-America First Team espnw Preseason All-America Second Team Athlon Sports Preseason All-America Second Team AP Preseason All-America Team (receiving votes) Preseason ACC Player of the Year (Blue Ribbon Panel/Coaches) Preseason All-ACC Team (Blue Ribbon Panel/Coaches) Purcell Pavilion Sellout Crowds No. Date Opponent Result Atten. 1. 1/15/01 #1 Connecticut W, , /24/01 Georgetown W, , /31/05 #1 Tennessee L, , /5/08 #3 Tennessee L, , /27/08 #1 Connecticut L, , /7/08 #17 Purdue W, , /31/09 #18 Vanderbilt W, , /24/10 #16 West Virginia W, , /6/10 Pittsburgh W, , /14/10 DePaul W, , /23/10 Marquette W, , /1/10 #1 Connecticut L, , /5/10 Purdue W, , /8/11 #2 Connecticut L, , /23/11 St. John s W, , /12/11 Rutgers W, , /26/11 Cincinnati W, , /18/11 #8 Kentucky W, , /28/11 Longwood W, , /7/12 #2 Connecticut W, (ot) 9, /21/12 Villanova W, , /23/12 #7 Tennessee W, , /5/12 DePaul W, , /12/12 West Virginia L, , /25/12 South Florida W, , /18/12 Massachusetts W, , /5/12 #3 Baylor L, , /29/12 #11 Purdue W, , /31/12 Saint Francis (Pa.) W, , /13/13 Rutgers W, , /15/13 Georgetown W, , /20/13 St. John s W, , /26/13 Providence W, , /2/13 Cincinnati W, , /26/13 #22 Syracuse W, , /4/13 #3 Connecticut W, (3ot) 9, /9/14 Syracuse W, , /23/14 #7 Duke W, , /27/14 #14 North Carolina W, , /29/14 #21 Oklahoma State W, , /31/14 #5 Baylor W, , /6/14 #3 Connecticut L, , /2/15 Florida State W, , /11/15 Boston College W, , /19/15 #5 Tennessee W, ,149 NOTE: Arena capacity was 11,418 through season (currently 9,149, except for 2014 NCAA regional when capacity was 8,774) // Rankings from AP poll // Boldface games played in Awards coaches poll for a total of 295 weeks during their history (all coming in McGraw s tenure). This marks the eighth consecutive season Notre Dame has been ranked in the top 10 of the WBCA/USA Today poll, as well as 14 of the past 18 campaigns ( to present). More Polling Data Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw is one of 33 people in NCAA Division I women s basketball history who have both played for and coached a team that has appeared in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. Besides her 299 AP poll appearances while coaching at Notre Dame, McGraw was the starting point guard at Saint Joseph s (Pa.) as a senior in 1977, helping the Hawks to No. 3 in the nation. Of the 33 people on this list, 18 currently are NCAA Division I head coaches (see accompanying chart), with McGraw and Baylor s Kim Mulkey the only active skippers to play for and coach a team in the AP poll, and coach that team to a national title (McGraw in 2001, Mulkey in 2005 and 2012). The Benefits Of Leadership Notre Dame is in the unique position of essentially having three head coaches on its bench, with current Fighting Irish skipper Muffet McGraw enjoying the expertise of AP Poll Appearances As Player & Coach (active coaches only) Amanda Butler (Florida) Michelle Clark-Heard (WKU) Cori Close (UCLA) Cynthia Cooper-Dyke (USC) June Daugherty (Wash. St.) MaChelle Joseph (Ga. Tech) Linda Lappe (Colorado) Joanne P. McCallie (Duke) umuffet McGraw (ND) Katie Meier (Miami) Kim Mulkey (Baylor) Kathy Olivier (UNLV) Jennifer Rizzotti (Hartford) Dawn Staley (S. Carolina) Charli Turner-Thorne (Ariz. St.) Holly Warlick (Tennessee) Coquese Washington (Penn St.) Terri Williams-Flournoy (Auburn) NOTES: Current teams listed all coaches shown made AP poll with current teams except Daugherty (did so at Boise State and Washington), Olivier (UCLA) and Williams- Flournoy (Georgetown) Butler, Clark-Heard, Cooper-Dyke, Lappe and Olivier currently coaching at alma maters. two former head coaches on her staff associate head coach Carol Owens (who guided her alma mater Northern Illinois from ) and associate coach Beth Cunningham (who piloted VCU from ). Collectively, the Notre Dame staff has 48 seasons of head coaching experience, which ranks third among Division I schools behind only Villanova (53) and Rutgers (49). Half And Half During the past 16 seasons, Notre Dame has been nearly unbeatable when it has the lead at halftime. The Fighting Irish are (.949) since the start of the campaign when they go into the dressing room with the lead, including wins in 281 of their last 294 such NCAA Division I Schools With Most Head Coach Experience 1. Villanova seasons (Harry Perretta-38; Joe Mullaney, Jr.-15) 2. Rutgers (C. Vivian Stringer-45; Tim Eatman-4) 3. u (Muffet McGraw-34; Beth Cunningham-9; Carol Owens-5) 4. North Carolina (Sylvia Hatchell - 41; Sylvia Crawley - 6) contests (.956) and an active 115-game winning streak. In the past seven seasons ( to present), Notre Dame is (.990) when leading at the half. The only losses in that time came on April 5, 2011, in the NCAA national championship game at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis (Notre Dame led Texas A&M, at intermission before falling 76-70), and Feb. 12, 2012, against West Virginia (Fighting Irish led at the break before the visiting Mountaineers rallied to win in the closing seconds, 65-63). The Best Offense Is A Good Defense During the past 21 seasons, Notre Dame has an amazing (.955) record when they hold their opponents below 60 points in a game, including an active 109-game winning streak in such games. The last time the Fighting Irish lost when allowing fewer than 60 points in a game was March 8, 2010, when they dropped a decision at No. 1 Connecticut in the BIG EAST Conference tournament semifinals at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. But Sometimes You Have To Score If You Want To Win During the past 21 seasons (since ), the Fighting Irish are (.971) when they score at least 80 points in a game. In that time, the only blemishes on that record are three overtime losses to Texas A&M (88-84) and Michigan State (87-83) in 1995 and UCLA (86-83 in double OT) in 2010, as well as a loss to Connecticut in 1998, an loss to DePaul in 2008, a setback at Baylor in 2011 and a defeat at Connecticut in In the past seven years ( to present), Notre Dame is (.974) when topping the 80-point mark, including wins in 80 of its last 81 such games (the lone setback come earlier this season, a loss at top-ranked UConn on Dec. 5, 2015, in the Jimmy V Classic). Now That s A Home Court Advantage One of the hallmarks of Notre Dame s success has been its stellar play at home. In fact, the Fighting Irish have been virtually untouchable at home in recent years, winning 274 of their last 304 games (.901), all but one game/win at the 9,149-seat Purcell Pavilion, including winning streaks of 51, 34, 25 and 20 games (plus a current 17-game run) in that span. Since Purcell Pavilion was renovated prior to the season, Notre Dame is (.943) including wins in 76 of its last 79 games and three of the six Fighting Irish losses in their refurbished facility have come by three points or fewer (two in overtime). Notre Dame has a (.876) record in regular season conference play at the former Joyce Center, sporting a program-record 31- game league winning streak at home before it ended with a loss to BIG EAST foe Villanova in the 2002 home finale. 9

10 The Fighting Irish have been especially strong when it comes to non-league home games, winning 132 of their last 142 outof-conference home contests (.930), dating back to the season. Five of the 10 losses in that span came at the hands of Big Ten opponents (four by 12 points or less) Wisconsin in 1996 (81-69), Purdue in 2003 (71-54), Michigan State in 2004 (82-73 OT), Indiana in 2006 (54-51) and Minnesota in 2009 (79-71) with the other defeats coming to Tennessee in 2005 (62-51) and 2008 (87-63), UCLA in 2010 (86-83 in 2OT), Baylor in 2012 (73-61) and Connecticut in 2014 (76-58). Since its inaugural season in , Notre Dame has played all but one of its games at the former Joyce Center, posting a (.823) record at the venerable facility. Fighting Irish Are Hottest Ticket In Town The past six seasons have seen an unprecedented surge in fan support for Notre Dame women s basketball, as the Fighting Irish set new program records for the highest year-end NCAA attendance ranking (fourth in and ), highest average attendance (8,979 fans per game in ) and most sellouts in a single season (11 in ). And, as the old saying goes you ain t seen nothin yet. For the seventh year in a row, Notre Dame fans all but exhausted the program s season ticket packages (approximately 7,500) and snapped up single-game ducats at a rate that has put the Fighting Irish in position to again post sellouts on a nightly basis. This year, Notre Dame ranks sixth in the nation in attendance, averaging 8,560 fans per game. That equated to 93.6 percent of Purcell Pavilion s capacity, the highest such percentage of any team in the country (aside from schools playing off-site home games or competing in larger secondary arenas). Gonzaga (91.9 percent) currently is the only other Division I school to fill its arena to better than 90 percent capacity this season. Oh Captain, My Captain Senior guard Michaela Mabrey, junior guard Lindsay Allen and junior forward Taya Reimer are serving as Notre Dame s team captains for the season. Mabrey is in her second season as a team captain, while Allen and Reimer received the captain s honor for the first time in their respective careers following a preseason vote by their teammates. This is the eighth time in 12 seasons the Fighting Irish have had a trio of captains, as well as the third year in a row (Mabrey joined Whitney Holloway and Markisha Wright in filling the captaincy trio last season). Irish Fans Crave Another Big Mac Attack Now in its ninth season, Notre Dame s wildlysuccessful Big Mac promotion once again looks to send fans home with full bellies, offering a coupon for a free Big Mac from South Bend-area McDonald s restaurants if the Fighting Irish score at least 88 points 10 in an regular season or exhibition game at Purcell Pavilion. In the nine-year history of the promotion, Notre Dame has hit the 88-point mark at home 64 times. Graduate student guard Madison Cable leads all current Fighting Irish players with six Big Mac Baskets during her career. And for those tracking such things (or perhaps falling under the heading of the athletics communications director has way too much time on his hands ), 29 different players have converted the burger ball, including seven current members of the Fighting Irish roster. ND s Big Mac Baskets (since ; postseason not included) *Wayne State Ma. Mabrey FG *DePaul Ma. Mabrey 3FG *Ferris State Wright FT UMass Lowell Wright FG Chattanooga Mi. Mabrey FG Holy Cross Westbeld 3FG Harvard Wright FT Quinnipiac Johnson FG Boston College Cable FG Tennessee Loyd FT Georgia Tech B. Turner FG Wake Forest Westbeld FG *California (Pa.) Wright FG UNC Wilmington Nelson FG Valparaiso Mi. Mabrey 3FG DePaul Cable FT UCLA Holloway 3FG Central Michigan Loyd FG South Dakota St. Nelson FG Boston College Mi. Mabrey 3FG Syracuse Cable FT North Carolina Cable FG *Edinboro Mi. Mabrey 3FG Massachusetts Braker FG Mercer K. Turner 3FG Utah State Diggins 3FG Saint Francis (Pa.) Cable FT Providence Huffman FG Louisville Cable 3FG Connecticut Diggins FG * - exhibition game What s more, of the 64 Big Mac games, 31 have been reached on two-point baskets, 19 on free throws, and 14 on three-pointers. Next Game: Saint Joseph s (Pa.) Notre Dame goes on a nine-day break, its longest of the season, for final exams before returning to action for its last game prior to the Christmas holiday at 7 p.m. (ET) Dec. 21 when the Fighting Irish travel to Philadelphia to take on Saint Joseph s. The game will serve as a homecoming for Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw, who is a 1977 SJU graduate and a member of the school s athletics and women s basketball halls of fame. It also will be the first time the Fighting Irish have played at Saint Joseph s since Dec. 30, Signees Erin Boley, a 6-2 forward from Hodgenville, Kentucky (Elizabethtown High School) and Jackie Young, a 6-0 guard from Princeton, Indiana (Princeton Community High School) both made their official commitments to Notre Dame during the early signing period, head coach Muffet McGraw announced Nov. 16. Both student-athletes are rated among the top 10 players in the country by various national recruiting services. As a group, this duo currently is ranked No. 3 by Prospects Nation, No. 5 by espnw Hoopgurlz, and is a top-five class by most major services for the fifth year in a row. It also gives Notre Dame a Top 25 class for the 20th consecutive year, a streak only two other schools in the country (Connecticut and Tennessee) can match. A partial preseason capsule look at the newest additions to the Notre Dame women s basketball program follows (the full release, including player bios, photos and an exclusive video interview with McGraw, can be found online at spec-rel/111615aaa.html): ERIN BOLEY, 6-2, F (Hodgenville, Ky./Elizabethtown) Statistics/Records: Entering her final year at Elizabethtown High School in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (combined record of ,.837, since she became a starter in eighth grade) career per-game statistical averages of 19.4 points and 9.0 rebounds with.546 fieldgoal percentage,.427 three-point percentage and.829 free-throw percentage already holds Elizabethtown school records for career points (2,472) and rebounds (1,070). USA Basketball: Earned a silver medal as a member of the 2015 USA Basketball Under-18 3x3 National Team at the FIBA U18 3x3 World Championships in Debrecen, Hungary helped Team USA to 8-1 record teammate on that squad of current Notre Dame freshman guard Arike Ogunbowale will be one of seven players on Notre Dame roster who have earned USA Basketball medals during their careers (along with Lindsay Allen, Marina Mabrey, Arike Ogunbowale, Ali Patberg, Taya Reimer and Brianna Turner). Awards/Honors: Two-time MaxPreps All-America selection (fourth team in 2015; honorable mention in 2014) 2015 Naismith Trophy All-America pick (honorable mention) two-time Gatorade Kentucky High School Player of the Year (2014, 2015 first sophomore in state ever to win the award) two-time AP Kentucky Player of the Year (2014, 2015 first sophomore in state ever to win the award) ranked No. 5 (five-star player) in Class of 2016 by espnw Hoopgurlz/Dan Olson Collegiate Girls Basketball Report ranked No. 5 by All-Star Girls Report ranked No. 6 by Prospects Nation ranked No. 8 by Blue Star Basketball. JACKIE YOUNG, 6-0, G (Princeton, Ind./Princeton Community) Statistics/Records: Entering her final year at Princeton Community High School in Princeton, Indiana (combined record of 70-8,.897) career per-game statistical averages of 29.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 3.4 steals with.574 field-goal percentage,.357 three-point percentage and.857 free-throw percentage enters her final prep season with 2,290 career points, needing 796 points to pass Shanna Zolman (3,085 at Wawasee High School from ) as the all-time scoring leader in Indiana girls basketball history (records date back to ) set Indiana girls basketball single-season scoring record with 1,003 points in , the fifth player of either gender (first female) in state history to score 1,000 points in a season, scoring most points in one season by an Indiana basketball player since , when Indiana University and NBA sharpshooter Steve Alford scored 1,078 points for New Castle High School). Awards/Honors: 2015 MaxPreps All-America selection (honorable mention) 2015 Naismith Trophy All-America pick (honorable mention) three-time first-team all-state choice ( ) ranked No. 5 in Class of 2016 by Prospects Nation ranked No. 6 by Blue Star Basketball ranked No. 8 by All-Star Girls Report ranked No. 11 (five-star player) by espnw Hoopgurlz/Dan Olson Collegiate Girls Basketball Report. Notre Dame Incoming Class of 2016 Erin Boley 6-2, F, Hodgenville, Ky. (Elizabethtown) Jackie Young 6-0, G, Princeton, Ind. (Princeton Community)

11 The Last Time Notre Dame SCORING Player scored 25 points: Madison Cable (25) vs. Ohio State, 12/2/15 Player scored 30 points: Jewell Loyd (31) at Georgia Tech, 2/19/15 Player scored 35 points: see 40 points Player scored 40 points: Jewell Loyd (41) at DePaul, 12/10/14 Player came off bench and scored 20 points: Marina Mabrey (23) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Two players scored 20 points: Madison Cable (25) & Lindsay Allen (20) vs. Ohio State, 12/2/15 Three players scored 20 points: Danielle Green (28), Sheila McMillen (26), Ruth Riley (23) vs. West Virginia, 1/7/99 Two players scored 25 points: Jewell Loyd (26) & Kayla McBride (25) vs. Duke, 3/9/14 Greensboro, N.C.) Player scored 25 points/consecutive games: Jewell Loyd (34 vs. Tennessee, 1/19/15; 29 vs. Georgia Tech, 1/22/15) None in double figures: at Seton Hall, 2/8/04 One in double figures: Jewell Loyd (21) vs. Duke (3/7/15 Greensboro, N.C.) Six in double figures: Marina Mabrey (18), Arike Ogunbowale (16), Kathryn Westbeld (16), Brianna Turner (11), Madison Cable (10) and Kristina Nelson (10) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Seven in double figures: see eight in double figures Eight in double figures: Devereaux Peters (20), Natalie Achonwa (19), Kaila Turner (14), Natalie Novosel (13), Skylar Diggins (11), Brittany Mallory (11), Kayla McBride (11) and Markisha Wright (11) vs. Pittsburgh, 1/17/12 ND scored 50 points/half: see 60 points/half ND scored 55 points/half: see 60 points/half ND scored 60 points/half: 65 (1st half) vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 ND scored 100 points/game: 110 at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 ND scored 100 points/home game: 104 vs. Boston College, 1/11/15 ND scored 100 points/neutral site: 100 vs. Duquesne, 12/1/13 Toronto, Ontario) ND scored 100 points/conference game: 104 vs. Boston College, 1/11/15 ND scored fewer than 15 points/half: 11 (1st half) at West Virginia, 1/13/08 ND scored fewer than 20 points/half: 19 (1st half) at Connecticut, 1/16/10 ND scored fewer than 50 points/game: 44 at Connecticut, 3/8/10 FIELD-GOAL SHOOTING Player made every shot from the field (min. 7): Taya Reimer (8-8) vs. Louisville, 2/23/15 ND shot 55 percent/game: see 60 percent/game ND shot 55 percent/consecutive games: 61.4 (43-70) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15; 57.1 (36-63) vs. Denver, 11/27/15 Freeport, Bahamas) ND shot 60 percent/game: 62.1 (36-58) vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 ND shot 65 percent/game: see 70 percent/game ND shot 70 percent/game: 70.2 (40-57) at Mercer, 12/30/11 ND shot below 25 percent/game: 24.5 (13-53) at West Virginia, 1/13/08 ND shot below 30 percent/game: 29.7 (22-74) vs. Connecticut, 4/7/13 New Orleans, La.) ND shot below 35 percent/game: 33.3 (21-63) vs. Connecticut, 4/7/15 Tampa, Fla.) ND shot below 35 percent/game and won: 34.8 (23-66) vs. South Florida, 3/10/13 Hartford, Conn.) ND shot 55 percent/half: see 70 percent/half ND shot 60 percent/half: see 70 percent/half ND shot 65 percent/half: see 70 percent/half ND shot 70 percent/half: 76.5 (26-34), 1st half vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 ND shot 55 percent/both halves: 60.0 (18-30) and 65.2 (15-23) vs. Montana, 3/20/15 ND shot below 25 percent/half: 24.0 (6-25), 1st half at Miami, 1/8/15 ND shot below 30 percent/half: 28.6 (10-35), 2nd half vs. Ohio State, 12/2/15 THREE-POINT SHOOTING Player made 4 three-pointers/half: Madison Cable (1st half) vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 Player made 5 three-pointers/half: Michaela Mabrey (1st half) at Boston College, 2/8/15 Player made 5 three-pointers: Madison Cable vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 Player made 6 three-pointers: Michaela Mabrey at Boston College, 2/8/15 Player made 7 three-pointers: Alicia Ratay at Providence, 2/16/03 Player made 8 three-pointers: Sheila McMillen vs. St. John s, 2/28/98 (@ Piscataway, N.J.) Player attempted 10 three-pointers: Michaela Mabrey (11) vs. Quinnipiac, 11/25/14 ND made 10 three-pointers: 11 vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 ND did not make a three-pointer: vs. Saint Joseph s (Pa.), 12/21/14 ND attempted 20 three-pointers: 20 vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 ND shot 60 percent 3FG (min. 5 att.): 65.0 (13-20) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 FREE-THROW SHOOTING Player made 10 free-throws: Jewell Loyd (10) at Georgia Tech, 2/19/15 Player made 15 free-throws: Jewell Loyd (15) at DePaul, 12/10/14 Player attempted 15 free-throws: Brianna Turner (16) at North Carolina, 1/15/15 Player made 10 for 10 or better: by Natalie Novosel vs. South Florida, 2/25/12 ND shot 90 percent (min. 10 att.): (13-13) vs. Stanford, 3/27/15 (@ Oklahoma City, Okla.) ND shot below 50 percent (min. 10 att.): 47.6 (20-42) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 ND made 30 free-throws: 31 (attempted 46) vs. UCLA, 11/28/15 (@ Freeport, Bahamas) ND made fewer than five FTs: 4 (attempted 7) vs. DePaul, 3/4/12 (@ Hartford, Conn.) ND attempted 40 free-throws: 46 (made 31) vs. UCLA, 11/28/15 (@ Freeport, Bahamas) ND attempted fewer than five FTs: 2 (made 2) at Connecticut, 3/8/10 REBOUNDS Player had 15 rebounds: Brianna Turner (18) at North Carolina, 1/15/15 Player had 20 rebounds: Natalie Achonwa (20) vs. South Florida, 3/10/13 (@ Hartford, Conn.) Two players had double-figure rebounds: Taya Reimer (11) and Brianna Turner (10) vs. Connecticut, 4/7/15 (@ Tampa, Fla.) Three players had double-figure rebounds: Jewell Loyd (12), Madison Cable (11) and Taya Reimer (11) at DePaul, 12/10/14 ND had 50 rebounds: 51 vs. DePaul, 3/22/15 ND had 20 offensive rebounds: 20 at Clemson, 1/24/15 ND had 25 offensive rebounds: 28 vs. Connecticut, 4/7/13 (@ New Orleans, La.) ND had 30 offensive rebounds: 30 vs. Longwood, 12/28/11 DOUBLE-DOUBLES Points & rebounds: Madison Cable (21/10) vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 Points & rebounds/consecutive games: Brianna Turner (20/13) at Syracuse, 1/4/15; (17/10) at Miami, 1/8/15 Points & rebounds/3 consecutive games: Natalie Achonwa (11/14) at Iowa, 3/26/13; (17/10) vs. Kansas, 3/31/13 (@ Norfolk, Va.); vs. Duke (17/13), 4/2/13 (@ Norfolk, Va.) Points & rebounds/4 consecutive games: Jacqueline Batteast (14/11) vs. Virginia Tech, 1/10/04; (23/11) vs. Connecticut, 1/13/04; (22/10) at West Virginia, 1/17/04; (12/10) at Syracuse, 1/21/04 Points & rebounds/5 consecutive games: Jacqueline Batteast (20/10) vs. Western Michigan, 12/12/01; (11/12) vs. Marquette, 12/22/01; (23/10) at Rice, 12/28/01; (25/14) vs. DePaul, 12/31/01; (12/13) at Miami (Fla.), 1/2/02 Points & assists: Marina Mabrey (18/10) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Points & assists/consecutive games: Niele Ivey (12/10) at Valparaiso, 11/17/00; (14/11) vs. Arizona, 11/20/00 Two players had double-doubles: Brianna Turner (14p/11r) and Taya Reimer (14p/10r) vs. DePaul, 3/22/15 Three players had double-doubles: Jewell Loyd (41p/12r), Madison Cable (20p/11r) and Taya Reimer (15p/11r) at DePaul, 12/10/14 15 points and 15 rebounds: Brianna Turner (29/18) at North Carolina, 1/15/15 20 points and 10 rebounds: Madison Cable (21/10) vs. DePaul, 12/9/15 20 points and 20 rebounds: Natalie Achonwa (20/20) vs. South Florida, 3/10/13 (@ Hartford, Conn.) TRIPLE-DOUBLES (only five in school history) Marina Mabrey (18p/10a/12s) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Skylar Diggins (17p/10r/10a) at DePaul, 2/24/13 Skylar Diggins (22p/10r/11a) vs. Maryland, 3/27/12 (@ Raleigh, N.C.) Sara Liebscher (17p/12r/10a) vs. Detroit, 2/15/90 Mary Gavin (11p/14a/10s) vs. Marquette, 1/31/87 ASSISTS Player had 10 assists: Marina Mabrey (10) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Player had 10 assists/consecutive games: Megan Duffy (11 vs. Rutgers, 1/23/05; 10 vs. St. John s, 1/26/05) Player had 15 assists: Mary Gavin (17) at Marquette, 2/28/87 ND had 30 assists: 30 vs. Central Michigan, 12/22/13 ND had fewer than 10 assists: 9 vs. Florida State, 1/2/15 ND had fewer than 5 assists: 3 vs. Villanova, 3/8/09 (@ Hartford, Conn.) BLOCKED SHOTS Player blocked 5 shots: Brianna Turner (5) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Player blocked 6 shots: Brianna Turner (7) vs. Louisville, 2/23/15 Player blocked 10 shots: Amanda Barksdale (11) vs. Boston College, 2/10/02 ND blocked 10 shots: 10 at North Carolina, 1/15/15 ND blocked 15 shots: 16 vs. Boston College, 2/10/02 ND blocked 0 shots: vs. Duke, 2/23/14 STEALS Player had 8 steals: see 10 steals Player had 10 steals: Marina Mabrey (12) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 ND had 20 steals: 21 vs. Saint Francis (Pa.), 12/31/12 TURNOVERS ND committed 25 or more: 28 vs. Georgetown, 1/15/13 ND committed 25 or more and won: see 25 or more ND committed 30 or more: 30 at West Virginia, 2/22/11 ND committed 10 or fewer: 10 at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 ND committed 10 or fewer/consecutive games: 9 vs. N.C. State, 3/8/14; 10 vs. Duke, 3/9/14 (@ Greensboro, N.C.) ND committed 5 or fewer: 3 at Maryland, 11/16/07 MISCELLANEOUS Led ND in points/rebounds/assists: Jewell Loyd (27p/8r/6a) vs. Maryland, 12/3/14 (@ Fort Wayne, Ind.) Hit final minute game-winning shot: Kathryn Westbeld (FT/0:26.2, 2nd) vs. Ohio State, 12/2/15 Four-point play: Madison Cable (9:52, 2nd half) vs. Wake Forest, 2/1/15 Made shot from midcourt or beyond: Lindsay Allen (50 feet at 0:00, 1st half) vs. Florida State, 1/2/15 Played every minute: Lindsay Allen (40) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Played more than 40 minutes: Jewell Loyd (42) and Michaela Mabrey (41) at DePaul, 12/10/14 ND rallied from 10-point deficit to win: trailed at North Carolina, (5:28-1st); won 89-79, 1/15/15 ND rallied from 15-point deficit to win: trailed vs. Syracuse, 7-22 (12:45-1st); won 79-68, 2/26/13 ND scored 20 straight points: 20-0 run at Boston College, 2/8/15 ND scored 25 straight points: 25-0 run vs. Holy Cross, 11/23/14 ND scored 30 straight points: 36-0 run vs. Southeast Missouri State, 1/2/11 OVERTIME ND played an OT game: vs. UCLA (W, 92-84, ot), 11/28/15 (@ Freeport, Bahamas) ND played multiple overtimes: vs. Connecticut (W, 96-87, 3ot), 3/4/13 ND won an OT game: see played an OT game ND won an OT game at home: vs. Connecticut (W, 96-87, 3ot), 3/4/13 ND won an OT game on the road: at DePaul (W, 94-93, ot), 12/10/14 ND lost an OT game: vs. UCLA (L, 86-83, 2ot), 11/18/10 RANKINGS Played the No. 1 team in the AP poll: lost at Connecticut (91-81), 12/5/15 Played the No. 1 team in the WBCA/USA Today poll: see played No. 1 team in AP poll Defeated top-10 opponent: vs. #10/12 Ohio State (75-72), 12/2/15 Defeated top-10 opponent at home: see defeated top-10 opponent Defeated top-10 opponent on the road: at #12/10 North Carolina (89-79), 1/15/15 Defeated top-10 opponent by double digits: vs. #7/6 Florida State (71-58), 3/8/15 (@ Greensboro, N.C.) 11

12 The Last Time An Opponent SCORING Player scored 25 points: Breanna Stewart (28) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Player scored 30 points: Adrienne Motley (32) at Miami, 1/8/15 Player scored 35 points: Heather Butler (37), UT Martin, 3/24/13 Iowa City, Iowa) Two players scored 20 points: Breanna Stewart (28) and Morgan Tuck (21) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Three players scored 20 points: Angela Simpson (37), Bridgette Williams (24) and Stephanie Shaw (22), Northwestern State, 3/24/95 Amarillo, Texas) Two players scored 25 points: Brittney Griner (32) and Odyssey Sims (25) at Baylor, 11/20/11 None in double figures: Toledo, 11/18/15 (three with 8 pts) One in double figures: Meredith Hamlet (10) at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Five in double figures: Megan Rogowski (18), Megan Podkowa (17), Jessica January (13), Brittany Hrynko (11) and Chanise Jenkins (11), DePaul, 11/26/13 Six in double figures: Jannon Roland (21), Danielle McCulley (14), Jennifer Jacoby (12), Stacey Lovelace (12), Nicole Erickson (11) and Shannon Lindsey (11), Purdue, 11/30/94 Scored 50 points/half: 51 (2nd half), DePaul, 12/9/15 Scored 55 points/half: see 60 points/half Scored 60 points/half: 63 (2nd half), Northwestern State, 3/24/95 (@ Amarillo, Texas) Scored 100 points/game: 106, Connecticut, 12/8/98 Scored 100 points/non-conference game: 103, Northwestern State, 3/24/95 (@ Amarillo, Texas) Scored fewer than 15 points/half: 13 (1st half), Harvard, 11/24/14 Scored fewer than 20 points/half: 15 (1st half), Denver, 11/27/15 (@ Freeport, Bahamas) Scored fewer than 40 points/game: 39, Toledo, 11/18/15 FIELD-GOAL SHOOTING Shot 50 percent/game: 52.4 (33-63) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Shot 55 percent/game: 58.2 (32-55), Texas A&M, 12/21/12 (@ Las Vegas, Nev.) Shot 60 percent/game: 60.0 (30-50), DePaul, 1/22/08 Shot below 20 percent/game: 18.6 (11-59), Holy Cross, 11/23/14 Shot below 25 percent/game: 23.7 (14-59), Toledo, 11/18/15 Shot below 30 percent/game: 28.6 (14-49) at Clemson, 1/24/15 Shot 50 percent/half: 50.0 (16-32), 2nd half by DePaul, 12/9/15 Shot 55 percent/half: 55.2 (16-29), 2nd half by South Carolina, 4/5/15 (@ Tampa, Fla.) Shot 60 percent/half: 60.7 (17-28), 1st half by Texas A&M, 12/21/12 (@ Las Vegas, Nev.) Shot 65 percent/half: 68.2 (15-22), 2nd half by Texas A&M, 4/5/11 (@ Indianapolis, Ind.) Shot 70 percent/half: 70.0 (14-20), 2nd half by New Hampshire, 11/12/10 Shot 50 percent/both halves: 51.4 (19-37) and 53.8 (14-26) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Shot below 20 percent/half: 17.9 (5-28), 1st half at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Shot below 25 percent/half: see below 20 percent/half Shot below 30 percent/half: 28.6 (6-21), 1st half by Denver, 11/27/15 (@ Freeport, Bahamas) Shot below 30 percent/both halves: 22.2 (6-27) and 25.0 (8-32) by Toledo, 11/18/15 THREE-POINT SHOOTING Player made 5 three-pointers: Bonnie Samuelson, Stanford, 3/27/15 (@ Oklahoma City, Okla.) Player made 6 three-pointers: Heather Butler, UT Martin, 3/24/13 (@ Iowa City, Iowa) Player made 7 three-pointers: Angie Bjorklund, Tennessee, 1/5/08 Player attempted 10 three-pointers: Brianna Butler (10) at Syracuse, 1/4/15 Made 10 three-pointers: 12, DePaul, 12/9/15 Did not make a three-pointer: Duke, 2/16/15 Shot 50 percent 3FG (min. 5 att.): see 60 percent 3FG Shot 60 percent 3FG (min. 5 att.): 60.0 (6-10), Tennessee, 1/19/15 FREE-THROW SHOOTING Player made 10 free-throws: Brianna Kiesel (10), Pittsburgh, 2/26/15 Player made 15 free-throws: Nok Duany (15) at Georgetown, 2/23/02 Player attempted 15 free-throws: Brittany Hrynko (16) at DePaul, 12/10/14 Player made 10 for 10 or better: Allisha Gray (10-10) at North Carolina, 1/15/15 Shot 90 percent (min. 10 att.): (16-16), DePaul, 12/9/15 Shot below 50 percent (min. 10 att.): 43.8 (7-16) by South Carolina, 4/5/15 (@ Tampa, Fla.) Made 30 free-throws: 32 (attempted 37), Illinois, 11/24/98 Made fewer than five FTs: 3 (attempted 5), Montana, 3/20/15 Attempted 40 free-throws: 45 (made 28), at South Florida, 1/13/07 Attempted fewer than five FTs: 3 (made 1), Kansas, 11/30/14 (@ Uncasville, Conn.) REBOUNDS Player had 15 rebounds: Shayla Cooper (15), Ohio State, 12/2/15 Player had 20 rebounds: Wendy Scholtens (20) at Vanderbilt, 1/8/89 Two players had double-figure rebounds: Nina Davis (13) and Sune Agbuke (10), Baylor, 3/29/15 (@ Oklahoma City, Okla.) Three players had double-figure rebounds: Aurora Adams (16), Brenda McCunn (11) and Paula Langseth (10), Hawaii, 3/22/81 (@ Anchorage, Alaska) Had 50 rebounds: 52, Connecticut, 12/6/14 Out-rebounded ND by 10 or more: 11, Bucknell, 11/15/15 (BU 44, ND 33) TRIPLE-DOUBLES Points, rebounds, assists: Liad Suez-Karni (14p/10r/10a), Villanova, 2/7/06 Points, rebounds, steals: Diana Vines (23p/11r/12s) at DePaul, 1/24/89 ASSISTS Player had 10 assists: Niya Johnson (10), Baylor, 3/29/15 (@ Oklahoma City, Okla.) Player had 15 assists: Veronica Pettry (16) at Loyola-Chicago, 2/18/89 Had 25 assists: 25, Connecticut, 4/8/14 (@ Nashville, Tenn.) Had 30 assists: 30 at Loyola-Chicago, 2/18/89 Had fewer than 10 assists: 8, Toledo, 11/18/15 BLOCKED SHOTS Player blocked 5 shots: Jassany Williams (9) at Miami, 1/8/15 Blocked 10 shots: 10 at Miami, 1/8/15 Blocked 15 shots: 16 at Connecticut, 1/27/07 Blocked 0 shots: at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 STEALS Player had 5 steals: Alexis Peterson at Syracuse, 1/4/15 Player had 6 steals: see player had 10 steals Player had 7 steals: see player had 10 steals Player had 10 steals: Alexis Jones at Duke, 2/2/14 Had 15 steals: 16 at Duke, 2/2/14 Had 20 steals: 24, Georgetown, 1/29/00 TURNOVERS Player committed 10 turnovers: Samantha Logic (11) at Iowa, 3/26/13 Committed 20 turnovers or more and won: 24, Connecticut, 12/6/14 Committed 25 turnovers or more: see 30 turnovers Committed 30 turnovers or more: 32 at Valparaiso, 11/23/15 Committed 35 turnovers or more: 35, Connecticut, 3/4/13 Committed 40 turnovers or more: 46, Akron, 11/11/11 Committed 5 turnovers or fewer: 5 at Villanova, 1/25/03 Committed 10 turnovers or fewer: 9, Miami, 3/6/15 (@ Greensboro, N.C.) MISCELLANEOUS Led team in points/rebounds/assists: Shannon Samuels (16p/5r/4a), UMass Lowell, 11/14/14 Hit final minute game-winning shot: Brooke Hampton (2 FT/0:04.6), West Virginia, 2/12/12 Played every minute: Moriah Jefferson (40) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Played more than 40 minutes: Monique Billings (42) and Nirra Fields (41), UCLA, 11/28/15 (@ Freeport, Bahamas) Rallied from 10-point deficit to win: Connecticut, 12/6/14 (ND led with 10:13 left in 1st half, UCONN won 76-58) Led ND by 10 or more at halftime: see led by 15 Led ND by 15 or more at halftime: 20 at Miami (40-20), 1/8/15 Led ND by 25 or more points: 25 by Baylor (75-50 at 4:56 of 2nd half), 4/3/12 (@ Denver, Colo.) SCORING MARGINS The Last Time ND won by 30-plus points: see 40 ND won by 30-plus points at home: 35 at ND 74, Toledo 39, 11/18/15 ND won by 30-plus points on road: 56 ND 110, at Valparaiso 54, 11/23/15 ND won by 40-plus points: 42 ND 94, Denver 52, 11/27/15 (@ Freeport, Bahamas) ND won by 50-plus points: 56 ND 110, at Valparaiso 54, 11/23/15 ND won by 60-plus points: 60 at ND 112, Quinnipiac 52, 11/25/14 ND won by 70-plus points: 75 at ND 104, Holy Cross 29, 11/23/14 ND lost by points: 10 Connecticut 63, ND 53, 4/7/15 (@ Tampa, Fla.) ND lost by at home: 18 Connecticut 76, at ND 58, 12/6/14 ND lost by points on road: 15 at Miami 78, ND 63, 1/8/15 ND lost by points: 21 Connecticut 79, ND 58, 4/8/14 (@ Nashville, Tenn.) ND lost by points at home: 25 Connecticut 76, at ND 51, 3/1/10 ND lost by points on the road: 21 at Connecticut 78, ND 57, 2/19/11 ND lost by 30-plus points: 39 at Tennessee 89, ND 50, 3/17/02 DOUBLE-DOUBLES Points & rebounds: Breanna Stewart (28/10) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 Points & assists: Chanise Jenkins (12/10) at DePaul, 12/10/14 Points & steals: Alexis Jones (16/10) at Duke, 2/2/14 Two players had double-doubles: Nina Davis (26/13) and Sune Agbuke (12/10), Baylor, 3/29/15 (@ Oklahoma City, Okla.) Three players had double-doubles: Mary Raese (24p/10r), Mary Westerwelle (11p/10r) and Netra McGrew (10p/10a), Idaho, 3/21/86 (@ Amarillo, Texas) 15 points and 15 rebounds: Shayla Cooper (18/15), Ohio State, 12/2/15 20 points and 10 rebounds: Breanna Stewart (28/10) at Connecticut, 12/5/15 20 points and 20 rebounds: Wendy Scholtens (29/20) at Vanderbilt, 1/8/89 12

13 Notre Dame on the ACC and NCAA statistical leaderboards Individual Statistics ACC - All Games NCAA Division I ACC - Conference Games Only Category Rank Leader Rank Leader Rank Leader Scoring (Top 30 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Madison Cable , Aaliyah Whiteside, GT , Kelsey Plum, Washington Marina Mabrey 13.4 t-15 - Field-Goal Percentage (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Marina Mabrey , Marina Mabrey, ND -.690, Caitlyn Ramirez, Troy Madison Cable Kathryn Westbeld Assists (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Lindsay Allen , Lindsay Allen, ND , Niya Johnson, Baylor Free-Throw Percentage (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Madison Cable.769 t , Destinee Walker, NC , Ciara Gregory, Charlotte Kathryn Westbeld.769 t-13 - Steals (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Marina Mabrey , Brittany Brown, FS , Ashley Deary, Northwestern Lindsay Allen 1.9 t-15 - Three-Point Field-Goal Percentage (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Madison Cable , Madison Cable, ND 4.581, Rebecca Navarro, Robert Morris Marina Mabrey Michaela Mabrey Three-Pointers Made Per Game (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Madison Cable , Kelly Hughes, BC , Brea Edwards, Middle Tennessee Assist/Turnover Ratio (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Lindsay Allen , Adrienne Motley, UM , Chantel Osahor, Washington Defensive Rebounds (Top 15 ACC / Top 100 NCAA) Madison Cable 4.6 t-9 5.9, Azurá Stevens, DU , Lexi Martins, Lehigh Conference stats through Dec. 9 // NCAA stats through Dec. 9 bold = ACC leader OR NCAA Top Division I teams Team Statistics ACC - All Games NCAA Division I ACC - Conference Games Only Category Rank Leader Rank Leader Rank Leader Scoring Offense , Notre Dame , Troy Scoring Defense , Boston College , Mississippi State Scoring Margin , Florida State , Mississippi State FT Percentage.656 ( ) , North Carolina , Oregon State FG Percentage.504 ( ) 1.504, Notre Dame 6.545, Connecticut FG Pct. Defense.406 ( ) , Virginia Tech , Alabama 3-Point FG Pct..467 (64-137) 1.467, Notre Dame 2.477, Arizona 3-Point FG Pct. Def..317 (52-164) , Boston College , Charleston Southern 3-Point FG Made , Syracuse , Sacramento State Rebounding , Duke , George Washington Opponent Rebounding , Florida State not kept Rebounding Margin , Florida State , Oregon State Offensive Rebounds , Georgia Tech , Sacramento State Defensive Rebounds , Duke , Oregon State Blocked Shots 4.2 t-6 5.9, Duke , Oregon State Assists , Notre Dame , Baylor Steals , Syracuse , DePaul Turnover Margin , Syracuse , Mississippi State Turnover Average 15.3 not kept , Villanova Assist/Turnover Ratio , Miami , Villanova Personal Fouls 19.1 not kept , Penn Won-Loss Percentage.889 not kept , 15 teams tied Conference stats through Dec. 9 // NCAA stats through Dec. 9 bold = ACC leader OR NCAA Top Division I teams 13

14 University of Notre Dame Women s Basketball Results Overall Record: 8-1 (Home: 4-0, Away: 2-1, Neutral: 2-0); ACC Record: 0-0 Notre Dame Highs Date ND NR Opp NR Opponent Time/Result/Score Streak Record Conf Scorer Rebounder Assists Attendance Nov. 15 3/3 BUCKNELL WatchND W W1 1-0 Turner-21 Westbeld-6 Allen-8 8,948 Nov. 18 3/3 TOLEDO ESPN3 W W2 2-0 Westbeld-13 two with 7 Allen-9 8,474 Nov. 21 3/3 at South Dakota State ESPN3 W W3 3-0 Turner-20 Turner-9 Allen-5 5,532 Nov. 23 3/3 at Valparaiso ESPN3 W W4 4-0 Ma. Mabrey-18 Ogunbowale-8 Ma. Mabrey-10 1,371 Junkanoo Jam (Freeport, Bahamas St. Georges High School) Nov. 27 3/3 vs. Denver W W5 5-0 Ma. Mabrey-19 two with 5 two with Nov. 28 3/3 vs. UCLA W (ot) W6 6-0 Cable-22 two with 9 Allen Dec. 2 3/3 10/12 (1) OHIO STATE ESPN3 W W7 7-0 Cable-25 Cable-11 Allen-5 8,609 Dec. 5 3/3 1/1 (2) at Connecticut ESPN L L1 7-1 Ma. Mabrey-23 Westbeld-8 Allen-6 10,167 (s) Dec. 9 3/3 18/17 DePAUL ESPN3 W W1 8-1 Cable-21 Cable-10 Allen-8 8,207 Dec. 12 at TCU FSN Noon ET Dec. 21 at Saint Joseph s (Pa.) 7 p.m. ET Dec. 28 OREGON STATE ESPN3 7 p.m. ET Dec. 30 GEORGIA TECH ESPN3 7 p.m. ET Jan. 3 at Pittsburgh ACC-RSN 3 p.m. ET Jan. 7 at Virginia 7 p.m. ET Jan. 10 NORTH CAROLINA ESPN2/ESPN3 1 p.m. ET Jan. 14 at Boston College 7 p.m. ET Jan. 18 TENNESSEE ESPN2-BM 7 p.m. ET Jan. 21 SYRACUSE ESPN3 7 p.m. ET Jan. 24 VIRGINIA TECH ESPN3 1 p.m. ET Jan. 28 at Georgia Tech ACC-RSN 7 p.m. ET Feb. 1 at Duke ESPN2-BM 6 p.m. ET Feb. 4 NORTH CAROLINA STATE ESPN3 7 p.m. ET Feb. 7 at Louisville ESPN or ESPN2 2/4 p.m ET Feb. 14 MIAMI ACC-RSN 1 p.m. ET Feb. 18 at Wake Forest 7 p.m. ET Feb. 22 at Florida State ESPN2-BM 7 p.m. ET Feb. 25 CLEMSON ESPN3 7 p.m. ET Feb. 27 BOSTON COLLEGE WatchND 1 p.m. ET ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C. Greensboro Coliseum) March 2 ACC First Round ACC-RSN TBA March 3 ACC Second Round ACC-RSN TBA March 4 ACC Quarterfinals ACC-RSN TBA March 5 ACC Semifinals ESPNU TBA March 6 ACC Final ESPN 1 p.m. NCAA Championship First & Second Rounds (Campus sites) March NCAA First Round ESPN/ESPN2 TBA March NCAA Second Round ESPN/ESPN2 TBA NCAA Championship Regionals (Bridgeport, Conn.; Dallas, Texas; Lexington, Ky.; Sioux Falls, S.D.) March NCAA Regional Semifinals ESPN TBA March NCAA Regional Final ESPN TBA NCAA Women s Final Four (Indianapolis, Ind. Bankers Life Fieldhouse) April 3 NCAA National Semifinals ESPN TBA April 5 NCAA National Championship ESPN TBA = Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) game NR = national ranking (listed as Associated Press/WBCA-USA Today) (s) = indicates sellout crowd (1) = Big Ten/ACC Challenge (Notre Dame, Ind. Purcell Pavilion) (2) = Jimmy V Women s Classic (Storrs, Conn. Gampel Pavilion) ESPN2-BM = Game televised live on ESPN2 s Big Monday package ACC-RSN = Game televised live on ACC/Regional Sports Networks (check local listings/theacc.com) FSN = Game televised live on Fox Sports Net WatchND = Game televised live and free of charge on official Notre Dame athletics multimedia platform, WatchND (watchnd.tv) Home games listed in ALL CAPS and played inside Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center (capacity 9,149) All times Eastern // Dates and times subject to change ATTENDANCE Totals Avg. High All Games: 52,366 5,818 10,167 (12/5 - UConn) Home: 34,238 8,560 8,948 (11/15 - Bucknell) Away: 17,070 5,690 10,167 (12/5 - UConn) Neutral: 1, (11/28 - UCLA) 14

15 Statistics All Games: 8-1 (Home: 4-0, Road: 2-1, Neutral: 2-0) Player GP-GS Min.-Avg. FG-A Pct. 3FG-A Pct. FT-A Pct. OR DR Tot. Avg. PF-DQ A T B S Pts. Avg. Madison Cable Brianna Turner Marina Mabrey Arike Ogunbowale Kathryn Westbeld Lindsay Allen Michaela Mabrey Taya Reimer Kristina Nelson Mychal Johnson Diamond Thompson Hannah Huffman Team Notre Dame Opponents All Games...ND... Opp SCORING Points per game Scoring margin FIELD GOALS-ATT Field goal pct POINT FG-ATT point FG pct pt FG made per game FREE THROWS-ATT Free throw pct F-Throws made per game REBOUNDS Rebounds per game Rebounding margin ASSISTS Assists per game TURNOVERS Turnovers per game Turnover margin Assist/turnover ratio STEALS Steals per game BLOCKS Blocks per game Score by Periods 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Total Notre Dame Opponents Notre Dame s Largest LEAD Overall: 59 ( (0:44-4th) at Valparaiso, 11/23) ACC: DEFICIT Overall: 22 (78-56 (9:04-4th) at Connecticut, 12/5 ACC: MARGIN OF VICTORY Overall: 56 ( at Valparaiso, 11/23) ACC: MARGIN OF DEFEAT Overall: 10 (91-81 at Connecticut, 12/5) ACC: HALFTIME LEAD Overall: 35, twice (MR: vs. Denver, Freeport, Bahamas) ACC: HALFTIME DEFICIT Overall: 2 (45-43 at Connecticut, 12/5) ACC: HOME CROWD Overall: 8,948 (vs. Bucknell, 11/15) ACC: ROAD CROWD Overall: 10,167 (sellout) (at Connecticut, 12/5) ACC: NEUTRAL SITE CROWD Overall: 683 (vs. UCLA, 11/28) (@ Freeport, Bahamas) ACC: Note: ACC includes all games vs. ACC teams 15

16 Points-Rebounds-Assists Opponent Ogunbowale Ma. Mabrey Turner Reimer Johnson Allen Patberg Nelson Cable Mi. Mabrey Huffman Westbeld Thompson BUCKNELL DNP* DNP* TOLEDO DNP* at South Dakota State DNP* DNP DNP at Valparaiso DNP* (1) vs. Denver DNP* DNP* DNP* (1) vs. UCLA DNP* DNP* (2) #10/12 OHIO STATE DNP* DNP* DNP* (3) at #1/1 Connecticut DNP* DNP* DNP DNP* DNP #18/17 DePAUL DNP* DNP* DNP DNP* Games started in boldface // home games in ALL CAPS // = ACC game // * = did not play due to injury/illness 1 = Junkanoo Jam (Freeport, Bahamas) // 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge (Notre Dame, Ind.) // 3 = Jimmy V Classic (Storrs, Conn.) // 4 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) Starting Lineups Date Opponent F F G G G N15 BUCKNELL Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey N18 TOLEDO Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey N21 at South Dakota State Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey N23 at Valparaiso Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey N27 vs. Denver Huffman (G) Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey N28 vs. UCLA Reimer Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey D2 #10/12 OHIO STATE Huffman (G) Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey D5 at #1/1 Connecticut Huffman (G) Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey D9 #18/17 DePAUL Ma. Mabrey (G) Westbeld Allen Cable Mi. Mabrey Specialty Stats (ND/Opponent) Date Opponent Paint OffTO 2ndCh FBreak Bench N15 BUCKNELL 54/24 33/13 11/14 11/0 31/18 N18 TOLEDO 38/16 21/12 13/6 8/2 32/17 N21 at South Dakota State 32/26 18/11 11/10 6/8 19/15 N23 at Valparaiso 72/10 51/5 15/6 24/0 64/18 N27 vs. Denver 40/8 22/11 18/0 6/2 48/10 N28 vs. UCLA 24/48 21/17 10/12 8/14 31/18 D2 #10/12 OHIO STATE 30/36 19/24 11/7 6/4 14/5 D5 at #1/1 Connecticut 30/48 22/21 12/19 9/14 39/13 D9 #18/17 DePAUL 48/24 22/6 8/18 2/2 38/22 16

17 Single Game Highs & Lows Team Superlatives HIGH LOW CATEGORY OPPONENT HIGH OPPONENT LOW 110 at Valparaiso (11/23/15) 74 vs. Toledo (11/18/15) Points/Game 91 by Connecticut (12/5/15) 39 by Toledo (11/18/15) 65 (1st) vs. DePaul (12/9/15) 29 (1st) vs. Toledo (11/18/15) Points/Half 51 (2nd) by DePaul (12/9/15) 15 (1st) by Denver (11/27/15) 34 (1st) vs. DePaul (12/9/15) 10 (3rd) vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) Points/Quarter 29 (1st) by DePaul (12/9/15) 6, twice (MR: 2nd by Denver, 11/27/15) 43 at Valparaiso (11/23/15) 26, twice (MR: vs. UCLA, 11/28/15) Field Goals Made 33 by Connecticut (12/5/15) 14 by Toledo (11/18/15) 72 vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) 56 at South Dakota State (11/21/15) Field Goal Attempts 69 by DePaul (12/9/15) 44 by Denver (11/27/15).621 vs. DePaul (12/9/15).375 vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) FG Percentage.524 by Connecticut (12/5/15).237 by Toledo (11/18/15) 13 at Connecticut (12/5/15) 3 vs. Toledo (11/18/15) 3-Point FG Made 12 by DePaul (12/9/15) 2 by Toledo (11/18/15) 24 vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) 9, twice (MR: at SDSU, 11/21/15) 3-Point FG Attempts 27 by DePaul (12/9/15) 12, twice (MR: by Ohio State, 12/2/15).650 at Connecticut (12/5/15).231 vs. Toledo (11/18/15) 3-Point FG Percentage.444 by DePaul (12/9/15).118 by Toledo (11/18/15) 31 vs. UCLA (11/28/15) 6 at Connecticut (12/5/15) Free Throws Made 19 by Connecticut (12/5/15) 8, twice (MR: by Ohio State, 12/2/15) 46 vs. UCLA (11/28/15) 10 at Connecticut (12/5/15) Free Throw Attempts 26 by UCLA (11/28/15) 14, three times (MR: by Ohio State, 12/2/15).875 vs. Ohio State (12/2/15).476 at Valparaiso (11/23/15) FT Percentage by DePaul (12/9/15).556 by Denver (11/27/15) 49 vs. Toledo (11/18/15) 29 at Connecticut (12/5/15) Rebounds 44 by Bucknell (11/15/15) 19 by Denver (11/27/15) 28 vs. Denver (11/27/15) 15 at South Dakota State (11/21/15) Assists 19, twice (MR: by DePaul, 12/9/15) 8 by Toledo (11/18/15) 19 at Valparaiso (11/23/15) 8, three times (MR: at Connecticut, 12/5/15) Steals 13 by Connecticut (12/5/15) 4 by Bucknell (11/15/15) 9 vs. Toledo (11/18/15) 1, twice (MR: vs. Ohio State, 12/2/15) Blocked Shots 4, twice (MR: by Connecticut, 12/5/15) 0 by Valparaiso (11/23/15) 20 at Connecticut (12/5/15) 10 at Valparaiso (11/23/15) Turnovers 32 by Valparaiso (11/23/15) 15 by South Dakota State (11/21/15) 24, twice (MR: vs. UCLA, 11/28/15) 15, twice (MR: vs. Ohio State, 12/2/15) Fouls 34 by UCLA (11/28/15) 16 by Toledo (11/18/15) Individual Superlatives OPPONENT Points Scored 25 by Madison Cable vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) 28 by Breanna Stewart of Connecticut (12/5/15) Field Goals Made 10 by Marina Mabrey at Connecticut (12/5/15) 12 by Breanna Stewart of Connecticut (12/5/15) Field Goal Attempts 16, three times (MR: by Lindsay Allen vs. Ohio State, 12/2/15) 22 by Nirra Fields of UCLA (11/28/15) Highest FG Percentage (min. 5 made).875 (7-8) by Kathryn Westbeld at Valparaiso (11/23/15).667 (12-18) by Breanna Stewart of Connecticut (12/5/15) 3-Point Field Goals Made 5, twice (MR: by Madison Cable vs. DePaul, 12/9/15) 4, twice (MR: by Chanise Jenkins of DePaul, 12/9/15) 3-Point Field Goal Attempts 9 by Madison Cable vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) 8 by Samantha Romanowski of Denver (11/27/15) 3-Point FG Percentage (min. 2 made) (3-3) by Marina Mabrey at Connecticut (12/5/15).667 (4-6) by Chanise Jenkins of DePaul (12/9/15) Free Throws Made 7, three times (MR: Cable/Ogunbowale/Ma. Mabrey vs. UCLA, 11/28/15) 9, twice (MR: by Jessica January of DePaul, 12/9/15) Free Throw Attempts 10 by Arike Ogunbowale vs. UCLA (11/28/15) 13 by Morgan Tuck of Connecticut (12/5/15) Free Throw Percentage (min. 3 made) (6-6) by Arike Ogunbowale vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) (9-9) by Jessica January of DePaul (12/9/15) Rebounds 11 by Madison Cable vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) 15 by Shayla Cooper of Ohio State (12/2/15) Assists 10 by Marina Mabrey at Valparaiso (11/23/15) 8, twice (MR: by Morgan Tuck of Connecticut, 12/5/15) Steals 12 by Marina Mabrey at Valparaiso (11/23/15) 4, twice (MR: by Cait Craft of Ohio State, 12/2/15) Blocked Shots 5, twice (MR: by Brianna Turner at Valparaiso, 11/23/15) 3 by Breanna Stewart of Connecticut (12/5/15) Turnovers 8 by Lindsay Allen vs. Ohio State (12/2/15) 9 by Megan McGurk of Bucknell (11/15/15) Minutes Played 40 by Lindsay Allen at Connecticut (12/5/15) 42 by Monique Billings of UCLA (11/28/15) 17

18 Game-By-Game Team Statistics Overall 3-Point Rebs. Pts by Qtr Date Opponent W/L Score FG-A Pct. FG-A Pct. FT-A Pct. Off-Def-Tot PF-DQ A TO B S OT Tot N15 hw Bucknell N18 hw Toledo N21 aw South Dakota State N23 aw Valparaiso N27 n1w Denver N28 n1w (OT) UCLA D2 h2w #10/12 Ohio State D5 a3l #1/1 Connecticut D9 hw #18/17 DePaul = ACC game // n1 = Junkanoo Jam (Freeport, Bahamas) // h2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge (Notre Dame, Ind.) // a3 = Jimmy V Classic (Storrs, Conn.) // n4 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) 18

19 Miscellaneous Notre Dame Statistics LEADING SCORER Madison Cable 3 (4) Marina Mabrey 3 Brianna Turner 2 (9) Kathryn Westbeld 1 (2) Lindsay Allen 0 (4) Michaela Mabrey 0 (4) Taya Reimer 0 (1) LEADING REBOUNDER Kathryn Westbeld 4 (12) Madison Cable 3 (10) Brianna Turner 2 (22) Hannah Huffman 1 (1) Arike Ogunbowale 1 Diamond Thompson 1 (1) Lindsay Allen 0 (2) Taya Reimer 0 (15) LEADER IN ASSISTS Lindsay Allen 8 (56) Madison Cable 1 (1) Marina Mabrey 1 Hannah Huffman 0 (1) Mychal Johnson 0 (1) Michaela Mabrey 0 (13) Taya Reimer 0 (5) Kathryn Westbeld 0 (1) GAMES STARTED Lindsay Allen 9 (86) Madison Cable 9 (18) Michaela Mabrey 9 (48) Kathryn Westbeld 9 (9) Brianna Turner 4 (39) Hannah Huffman 3 (3) Marina Mabrey 1 Taya Reimer 1 (42) CHARGES TAKEN Opponents 7 Notre Dame 13 Madison Cable 4 (41) Lindsay Allen 5 (24) Mychal Johnson 2 (8) Michaela Mabrey 1 (3) Kathryn Westbeld 1 (2) Hannah Huffman 0 (1) Taya Reimer 0 (1) 20-POINT SCORING GAMES Opponents 5 Notre Dame 8 Madison Cable 4 (6) Brianna Turner 2 (8) Lindsay Allen 1 (5) Marina Mabrey 1 Michaela Mabrey 0 (1) Taya Reimer 0 (1) 30-POINT SCORING GAMES Opponents 0 Notre Dame 0 40-POINT SCORING GAMES Opponents 0 Notre Dame 0 TECHNICAL/FLAGRANT FOULS Opponents 0 Notre Dame 1 Lindsay Allen 1 (1) Madison Cable 0 (1) FOUR-POINT PLAYS Opponents 1 Notre Dame 0 Madison Cable 0 (1) THREE-POINT PLAYS Opponents 9 Notre Dame 10 Arike Ogunbowale 3 Marina Mabrey 2 Kathryn Westbeld 2 (10) Madison Cable 1 (5) Mychal Johnson 1 (2) Kristina Nelson 1 (2) Brianna Turner 0 (17) Lindsay Allen 0 (17) Taya Reimer 0 (11) Hannah Huffman 0 (1) Michaela Mabrey 0 (3) ND S FIRST SUBSTITUTION Marina Mabrey 5 Arike Ogunbowale 3 Taya Reimer 3 Hannah Huffman 1 Mychal Johnson 1 BENCH POINTS Opponents 136 (15.1 ppg.) Notre Dame 316 (35.1 ppg.) SHOT CLOCK VIOLATIONS FORCED Opponents 0 Notre Dame 4 10-SECOND (BACKCOURT) VIOLATIONS FORCED Opponents 0 Notre Dame 0 JUMP BALLS CONTROLLED Opponents 3 Notre Dame 6 Kathryn Westbeld 3/5 (.600) Brianna Turner 3/4 (.750) FIRST SCORE Opponents 3 Notre Dame 6 Kathryn Westbeld 5 Lindsay Allen 1 RUNS OF 10-0 OR BETTER Opponents 1 Notre Dame 9 LARGEST HALFTIME LEAD 35, twice (MR: vs. Denver, 11/27) LARGEST HALFTIME DEFICIT 2 (45-43 at Connecticut, 12/5) LARGEST LEAD 59 (110-51, 0:44-4th at Valparaiso, 11/23) LARGEST DEFICIT 22 (78-56, 9:04-4th at Connecticut, 12/5) LARGEST DEFICIT OVERCOME TO WIN 4, three times (MR: 17-13, 1:25-1st at South Dakota State, 11/21) LARGEST LEAD GIVEN UP IN LOSS 1, three times (MR: 43-42, 0:36-2nd at Connecticut, 12/5) LARGEST WIN 56 ( at Valparaiso, 11/23) LARGEST DEFEAT 10 (91-81 at Connecticut, 12/5) MOST CONSECUTIVE PTS 17, twice (MR: 5:44 to 2:12-2nd vs. Denver, 11/27) MOST CONSECUTIVE OPP PTS 17 (2:53-3rd to 9:04-4th at Connecticut, 12/5) LONGEST WINNING STREAK 7 (11/15-12/2) LONGEST LOSING STREAK 1 (12/5) LARGEST HOME CROWD 8,948 vs. Bucknell (11/15/15) LARGEST ROAD CROWD 10,167 (sellout) at Connecticut (12/5) LARGEST NEUTRAL SITE CROWD 683 vs. UCLA (11/28/15) NOTE: totals may not add up to games played due to ties figures in parentheses by player totals are career totals Double-Figure Points Career Madison Cable 9 27 Marina Mabrey 6 6 Kathryn Westbeld 6 15 Lindsay Allen 5 30 Arike Ogunbowale 4 4 Michaela Mabrey 3 34 Brianna Turner 3 31 Mychal Johnson 1 3 Kristina Nelson 1 1 Hannah Huffman 0 1 Taya Reimer 0 29 Double-Figure Rebounds Career Madison Cable 2 5 Brianna Turner 0 12 Taya Reimer 0 10 Kathryn Westbeld Games (aka Stat Sheet Stuffers ) Career Lindsay Allen 2 12 Brianna Turner 2 7 Marina Mabrey 1 1 Michaela Mabrey 0 1 Madison Cable 0 1 Taya Reimer 0 1 NOTE: At least 5 in three of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocks) Double-Doubles Career Madison Cable pts., 11 rebs. vs. #10/12 Ohio State, 12/2 21 pts., 10 rebs. vs. #18/17 DePaul, 12/9 Marina Mabrey pts., 10 asst., 12 stls. at Valparaiso, 11/23 Brianna Turner 0 10 Taya Reimer 0 5 Kathryn Westbeld 0 1 Triple-Doubles Career Marina Mabrey pts., 10 asst., 12 stls. at Valparaiso, 11/23 Clutch Free Throws (final 5 min. + OT) FT-FTA Pct. Marina Mabrey Mychal Johnson Michaela Mabrey Madison Cable Brianna Turner Kathryn Westbeld Arike Ogunbowale Diamond Thompson Lindsay Allen Taya Reimer Kristina Nelson Team Totals

20 Box Scores GAME 1 #3 Notre Dame 85, Bucknell 54 November 15, 2015 Purcell Pavilion (Notre Dame, Ind.) Bucknell (54) DeBoer Romaine Craig McGurk Klotz English O Bryan Dumiak Walker Mikkelsen Jones Swart Slagus Team 10 Totals Notre Dame (85) Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Johnson Nelson Huffman Thompson Team 2 Totals Bucknell Notre Dame FG Pct: Bucknell 37.5, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: Bucknell 28.6, Notre Dame FT Pct: Bucknell 57.1, Notre Dame Turnovers: Bucknell 29, Notre Dame 13. Blocked Shots: Bucknell 2, Notre Dame 6 (Turner 3). Steals: Bucknell 4 (DeBoer 2), Notre Dame 16 (Allen, Ma. Mabrey 3). Attendance: 8,948. NOTES: Muffet McGraw earned her 700th coaching victory at Notre Dame, becoming the second coach in any sport in the 128-year history of Fighting Irish athletics to win 700 games while coaching under the Golden Dome Notre Dame is 26-3 (.897) in season openers in the McGraw era ( to present) and has won its last 21 lidlifters the Fighting Irish are 49-3 (.942) against first-time opponents since , including an active 25-game winning streak Notre Dame has won 38 consecutive home games against first-time opponents, a run that dates back to the season the Fighting Irish have won 19 consecutive games against teams from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (13 in a row at home) and are (.705) all-time against Keystone State schools, including a 30-5 (.857) record at home McGraw improves to 8-2 (.800) all-time against Bucknell (she was 7-2 against the Bison while coaching at Lehigh from ) Notre Dame is (.864) in the month of November since the start of the season, including wins in 26 of its last 27 November games Marina Mabrey s 16 points tied for the fifth most by a Notre Dame rookie in her debut game Turner holds the record with 29 points in last year s season-opening win over UMass Lowell Turner collected her seventh career 20-point game and first since Feb. 5, 2015, when she scored 26 points in a win over Virginia at Purcell Pavilion Cable posted her second career 20-point game and first since she scored a career-high 21 points against UCLA on Dec. 7, 2013, at Purcell Pavilion Notre Dame had two 20-point scorers in the same game for the first time since March 27, 2015, when Allen (28 points) and Jewell Loyd (21 points) did so in the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional semifinals (Sweet 16) against Stanford in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Allen s eight assists were one off her career high set on two occasions (the last on Feb. 23, 2015, against Louisville at Purcell Pavilion three days later, she had her most recent eight-assist game in a home victory over Pittsburgh) Westbeld made her first career start, while Marina Mabrey and Ogunbowale both made their college debuts Nelson made her first appearance in a Notre Dame uniform since March 22, 2014 (NCAA Championship first-round win over Robert Morris), having missed the season while recovering from shoulder surgery. GAME 2 #3 Notre Dame 74, Toledo 39 November 18, 2015 Purcell Pavilion (Notre Dame, Ind.) Toledo (39) Monakana Capotosto Reecher Boyd Bravo-Harriott Harris St-Fort McIntyre Printz Rasmussen Kessler Woody Team 4 Totals Notre Dame (74) Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Reimer Johnson Nelson Huffman Thompson Team 4 Totals Toledo Notre Dame FG Pct: Toledo 23.7, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: Toledo 11.8, Notre Dame FT Pct: Toledo 64.3, Notre Dame Turnovers: Toledo 17, Notre Dame 19. Blocked Shots: Toledo 1, Notre Dame 9 (Turner 5). Steals: Toledo 10 (Reecher 3), Notre Dame 8 (Cable 3). Attendance: 8,474. NOTES: Notre Dame held an opponent to fewer than 40 points for the first time since Jan. 24, 2015, when it posted a win at Clemson the Fighting Irish held an opponent below 25-percent shooting for the first time since Nov. 23, 2014, when they limited Holy Cross to a.186 field-goal percentage (11-of-59) in a victory at Purcell Pavilion Toledo is the first Notre Dame opponent that did not have a double-digit scorer since March 20, 2015, when Montana was held in check during a Fighting Irish win in the first round of the NCAA Championship at Purcell Pavilion Toledo s 17 first-half points were the fewest by a Notre Dame foe since March 7, 2015, when Duke scored 15 points in the first half of a Fighting Irish win in the ACC Championship semifinals at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina Notre Dame improves to 4-2 all-time against Toledo (not counting a UT win that occurred in when the Fighting Irish were still a club team, three seasons before they achieved varsity status as a Division III program) Notre Dame rises to (.736) all-time against the current Mid-American Conference membership, winning its 22nd consecutive game against a team currently played in the MAC the Fighting Irish also are 24-5 (.828) all-time at home against those present MAC schools, including a 15-1 (.938) record in the 29-year Muffet McGraw era Notre Dame moves to (.828) all-time against Ohio schools, including an active 20-game winning streak, and the Fighting Irish are 39-7 (.848) all-time at home against teams from the Buckeye State Allen finished one assist shy of her first career double-double, settling for tying her career high with nine assists, a mark she d set twice before (most recently on Feb. 23, 2015, against Louisville at Purcell Pavilion) Huffman tied her career high with a game-best seven rebounds, matching her total against Holy Cross on Nov. 23, 2014, at Purcell Pavilion Turner blocked at least five shots for the eighth time in her career and first since she tied her career high with seven blocks in the aforementioned Feb. 23 win over Louisville at Purcell Pavilion prior to the game, Ogunbowale, Reimer, injured freshman guard Ali Patberg and athletic trainer Anne Marquez were honored for their participation with USA Basketball this past summer. GAME 3 #3 Notre Dame 75, South Dakota State 64 November 21, 2015 Frost Arena (Brookings, S.D.) Notre Dame (75) Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Reimer Johnson Huffman Team 2 Totals South Dakota State (64) Ober Thompson Young Guebert Miller Alexander Boever Cornemann Mieras Team 8 Totals Notre Dame South Dakota St FG Pct: Notre Dame 46.4, South Dakota State PT FG Pct: Notre Dame 44.4, South Dakota State FT Pct: Notre Dame 67.9, South Dakota State Turnovers: Notre Dame 12, South Dakota State 15. Blocked Shots: Notre Dame 8 (Turner, Reimer 2), South Dakota State 1. Steals: Notre Dame 11 (Turner, Westbeld, Allen, Johnson 2), South Dakota State 6 (Miller, Boever 2). Technical Foul: Allen (ND). Attendance: 5,532. NOTES: Notre Dame was playing in the state of South Dakota for just the second time in the program s 39-year history, and first since Jan. 14, 1980 (in the program s last season as a Division III squad), when the Fighting Irish dropped a decision to South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota Notre Dame has won 28 of its last 29 games in the month of November and is (.867) in November games since (when the Fighting Irish joined the BIG EAST Conference) Notre Dame has won 46 of its last 47 regular season road games (and 53 of 59) the Fighting Irish have allowed 157 points this year (52.3 ppg.), the third-fewest three-game total to begin a season in program history, topped only by the squad (123 points) and the club (138 points) Notre Dame improves to 2-0 all-time against South Dakota State and 9-2 (.818) all-time against current Summit League schools Turner posted her eighth career 20-point game and second of the season Westbeld scored in double figures nine times as a freshman, but already has done so in two of three games this season Cable has scored in double figures in three consecutive games for the first time in her career Notre Dame had a season-low 12 turnovers, while forcing South Dakota State into 15 turnovers (the Jackrabbits came into the game leading the nation with just 7.0 turnovers per game) the attendance of 5,532 was the largest for a regular season women s basketball game at South Dakota State s Frost Arena, and the third-largest for any women s basketball game in the facility s history Notre Dame was the highest-ranked NCAA Division I team ever to play at Frost Arena. 20

21 Box Scores GAME 4 #3 Notre Dame 110, Valparaiso 54 November 23, 2015 Athletics-Recreation Center (Valparaiso, Ind.) Notre Dame (110) Turner Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Reimer Johnson Nelson Huffman Thompson Team 5 Totals Valparaiso (54) Walker Lindfors Hamlet, M Schaub Dean Donchetz Miller Scott-Thompson Franklin Schofield Thompson Wiedemann Team 3 Totals Notre Dame Valparaiso FG Pct: Notre Dame 61.4, Valparaiso PT FG Pct: Notre Dame 40.0, Valparaiso FT Pct: Notre Dame 47.6, Valparaiso Turnovers: Notre Dame 10, Valparaiso 32. Blocked Shots: Notre Dame 7 (Turner 5), Valparaiso 0. Steals: Notre Dame 19 (Ma. Mabrey 12), Valparaiso 5 (Schaub 3). Attendance: 1,371. NOTES: Marina Mabrey posted the fifth triple-double in school history (first by a freshman) and is just the second Fighting Irish player to do so using steals (Mary Gavin - 17 points, 14 assists and 10 steals the previous school record for steals before Mabrey s effort on Jan. 31, 1987, against Marquette) Mabrey s tripledouble in her fourth career game tied for the second-quickest to start a career in NCAA Division I history only Schaquilla Nunn of Winthrop (third career game on Nov. 20, 2012, vs. Mississippi State) did so faster Mabrey s triple-double was the 25th in ACC history, and the the first in ACC history to feature steals Mabrey is the second ACC freshman ever to record a triple-double, joining Duke s Elizabeth Williams (18 points, 16 rebounds and 12 blocks at Wake Forest on Jan. 6, 2012) in that elite company Mabrey s 12 steals also are second on the ACC single-game steals list, and the most since Georgia Tech s Jill Ingram had 14 thefts (tying the NCAA Division I record) against Virginia Tech on Feb. 29, 2008 Mabrey s 12 steals tied for the second-most by a player in completing a triple-double, exceeded only by Old Dominion s Ticha Penicheiro vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) in the first round of the NCAA Championship on March 13, 1998 Mabrey is the first Fighting Irish player with double-digit assists in a game since Feb. 24, 2013, when Skylar Diggins had 10 assists at DePaul as part of her second career triple-double (the most recent one before Mabrey) Notre Dame s 110 points rank seventh on the program s single-game scoring list and are the second-most points the Fighting Irish have ever scored on the road, trailing only a win at Mercer on Dec. 30, 2011 Notre Dame s 43 field goals tied for the sixth-most made field goals in one game in program history and also are the most ever recorded by the Fighting Irish in a true road game Notre Dame had six double-figure scorers for the first time since Jan. 11, 2005, when it also had six reach the mark in a win over Boston College at Purcell Pavilion four different Fighting Irish players posted career-high scoring totals Mabrey, Ogunbowale, Nelson and Thompson, while Ogunbowale and Thompson also set career-high rebounding totals Westbeld tied her career high with four assists Turner registered her second five-block game of the season and ninth of her career, while also logging her 100th career block Notre Dame improves to 26-0 all-time against Valparaiso (the most wins without a loss against one opponent in program history) the 110 points were the most the Fighting Irish have ever scored against the Crusaders in a series that dates back to GAME 5 #3 Notre Dame 94, Denver 52 Junkanoo Jam Freeport Division - First Round November 27, 2015 St. Georges High School (Freeport, Bahamas) Denver (52) Spittel Alt Romanowski Morgan Bradley Poss Rodgers Bryant Queen Team 2 Totals Notre Dame (94) Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Huffman Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Johnson Nelson Thompson Team 3 Totals Denver Notre Dame FG Pct: Denver 40.9, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: Denver 30.0, Notre Dame FT Pct: Denver 55.6, Notre Dame Turnovers: Denver 19, Notre Dame 12. Blocked Shots: Denver 1, Notre Dame 2. Steals: Denver 7 (Poss 2), Notre Dame 8 (Ma. Mabrey 4). Attendance: 375. NOTES: For the fourth time in five games this season, Notre Dame held its opponent to 54 points or fewer the Fighting Irish improve to 39-4 (.907) in multi-game tournament play since the start of the season in the past seven years, Notre Dame is 7-0 in the regular season when playing outside the continental United States (3-0 at Junkanoo Jam, 3-0 at Paradise Jam in U.S. Virgin Islands, 1-0 at Toronto, Ontario) the Fighting Irish have won 26 consecutive games against first-time opponents and are 50-3 (.943) against new foes since the start of the season Notre Dame is 10-2 (.833) all-time against current Summit League teams, with a 4-1 record away from home (this was the first-ever neutral site game for the Fighting Irish against a Summit League opponent) Notre Dame has won its last nine games immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday and is (.667) all-time in its first game after Thanksgiving, including a 22-7 (.759) record in the Muffet McGraw era the Fighting Irish are (.869) in the month of November since the season and have won 30 of their last 31 November games the Fighting Irish held Denver to an opponent season-low six points in the second quarter, matching Toledo s total in the second period on Nov. 18 at Purcell Pavilion Denver s 15 first-half points were the fewest by a Notre Dame opponent since March 7, 2015, when No. 16 Duke scored 15 points in the first half of Notre Dame s win in the ACC Championship semifinals at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina the Fighting Irish sank a seasonhigh nine three-point field-goals on a season-best.600 three-point percentage Notre Dame shot better than 55 percent from the field for the second consecutive game, the first time it has done that since Jan , 2015, when the Fighting Irish shot.582 against Tennessee and.565 against Georgia Tech, with both of those games played at Purcell Pavilion Notre Dame dished out a season-high 28 assists for the second game in a row, Marina Mabrey posted a career scoring high with 19 points Thompson tied her career high with six points and set a new personal best with five rebounds and 15 minutes played, tying or surpassing her totals set earlier in the week at Valparaiso. GAME 6 #3 Notre Dame 92, UCLA 84 (OT) Junkanoo Jam Freeport Division - Final November 28, 2015 St. Georges High School (Freeport, Bahamas) UCLA (84) Swain Billings Korver Canada Fields Hearn Burke Hayes Hersler Baird Team 3 Totals Notre Dame (92) Reimer Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Johnson Nelson Huffman Thompson Team 6 Totals UCLA Notre Dame FG Pct: UCLA 47.1, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: UCLA 25.0, Notre Dame FT Pct: UCLA 65.4, Notre Dame Turnovers: UCLA 19, Notre Dame 16. Blocked Shots: UCLA 2 (Billings 2), Notre Dame 1. Steals: UCLA 7 (Fields 4), Notre Dame 10 (Ma. Mabrey 6). Attendance: 683. NOTES: Notre Dame wins its second Junkanoo Jam Freeport Division title in as many trips to the Bahamas tournament, having also claimed the crown in 2011 (56-54 over No. 7/6 Duke on a buzzer-beating jumper by Natalie Novosel) the Fighting Irish have won 40 of their last 44 regular season tournament games (multi-game events only) and have won six tournament titles since (Junkanoo Jam in 2011 and 2015; Paradise Jam in 2009; WBCA Classic in 2010; State Farm Holiday Hoops Classic in 2010; World Vision Classic in 2012) since the start of the season, Notre Dame is 8-0 when playing outside the continental United States (4-0 in the Bahamas; 2-0 at the 2009 Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands; 1-0 vs. Duquesne in Toronto, Ontario, on Dec. 1, 2013) Notre Dame has won its last 20 games decided by single digits and/or in overtime, including its last six overtime games (and eight of its last 11 OT contests) the Fighting Irish improve to (.870) in the month of November, dating back to the season Notre Dame has won 31 of its last 32 November games and completes the month undefeated for the fourth consecutive season dating back to the start of the season, the Fighting Irish are (.838) when playing on one day s rest or fewer Notre Dame wins its fourth consecutive game against UCLA and six of its last seven against the Bruins, who still lead the series, 9-8 nearly half of the 17 games in the Notre Dame-UCLA series have been decided by single digits, including four that have gone to overtime this marked the fourth time in the past seven games between the Fighting Irish and Bruins that both teams topped the 80-point mark, while at least one team has done so in eight of the last nine series matchups Notre Dame is (.600) all-time against current Pac-12 Conference teams and has won 27 of its last 34 contests against the present Pac-12 alignment (including a nine-game winning streak) Notre Dame s 46 free throw attempts tied for the second most in school history, and most since the Fighting Irish tried a school-record 52 foul shots at Mercer on Dec. 30, 2011 Notre Dame s 31 made free throws tied for ninth most in school history, and most since Nov. 25, 2014, when the Fighting Irish converted 32-of-40 foul shots against Quinnipiac at Purcell Pavilion Cable was named the tournament MVP, while Marina Mabrey joined her on the Junkanoo Jam Freeport Division All-Tournament Team Cable s 22 points were one more than her previous career high, also set against UCLA on Dec. 7, 2013, at Purcell Pavilion. 21

22 Box Scores GAME 7 #3 Notre Dame 75, #10/12 Ohio State 72 Big Ten/ACC Challenge December 2, 2015 Purcell Pavilion (Notre Dame, Ind.) Ohio State (72) Hart Cooper Mitchell, K Craft Alston Pugh Doss Waterman Team 4 Totals Notre Dame (75) Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Huffman Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Johnson Nelson Thompson Team 5 Totals Ohio State Notre Dame FG Pct: Ohio State 50.0, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: Ohio State 33.3, Notre Dame FT Pct: Ohio State 57.1, Notre Dame Turnovers: Ohio State 20, Notre Dame 18. Blocked Shots: Ohio State 4, Notre Dame 1. Steals: Ohio State 12 (Craft 4), Notre Dame 9 (Cable 3). Attendance: 8,609. NOTES: Notre Dame is unbeaten in three appearances in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge Notre Dame has won 21 consecutive games decided by single digits and/or in overtime, including the past two games... the Fighting Irish are 40-5 (.889) against ranked opponents in the past four years, with a 23-5 (.821) record against top-10 teams... Notre Dame moves to 3-1 all-time against Ohio State, including a 2-0 record at Purcell Pavilion, and the Fighting Irish have won their last three games against the Buckeyes... all four games in the Notre Dame-Ohio State series have been decided by seven points or less... the Fighting Irish improve to (.504) all-time against the current Big Ten Conference alignment, with a (.600) record at home and (.564) mark in the 29-year Muffet McGraw era... Notre Dame has won 14 consecutive games against Big Ten opponents and 25 of its last 31 against that conference (not counting matchups against Maryland, Nebraska or Rutgers before they joined the Big Ten)... the Fighting Irish rise to (.830) all-time against Ohio schools, including a 40-7 (.851) record at home... Notre Dame has won 21 consecutive games against teams from the state of Ohio, including two this year (also a victory over Toledo on Nov. 18 at Purcell Pavilion)... this marked the second time this season the Fighting Irish have had two 20-point scorers in the same game (Turner had 21 points and Cable added 20 points in the season-opening win over Bucknell on Nov. 15 at Purcell Pavilion)... Cable s 25 points not only eclipsed her previous career high set four days ago against UCLA (22 points), but it also was the most points by a Notre Dame player since Allen s 28 points vs. No. 14/17 Stanford in the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional semifinals (Sweet 16) on March 27, 2015, at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma... Cable s five three-pointers tied her career high (also vs. UCLA on Dec. 7, 2013, at Purcell Pavilion) and were the most by a Notre Dame player since March 22, 2015, when Michaela Mabrey canned five treys against De- Paul in the second round of the NCAA Championship at Purcell Pavilion Cable s five triples also were one off the arena record set on eight different occasions, most recently on Feb. 9, 2014, when Michaela Mabrey made 6-of-14 three-pointers in a win over Syracuse McGraw moves to 2-2 all-time when coaching against her former assistants (1-0 vs. Ohio State s Kevin McGuff, 1-0 vs. Penn State s Coquese Washington, 0-2 vs. Toledo s Bill Fennelly (now at Iowa State)). GAME 22 8 #1 Connecticut 91, #3 Notre Dame 81 Jimmy V Classic December 5, 2015 Gampel Pavilion (Storrs, Conn.) Notre Dame (81) Westbeld Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Huffman Ogunbowale Mabrey, Ma Nelson Team 4 Totals Connecticut (91) Tuck Stewart Jefferson Nurse Williams Chong Collier Samuelson Team 3 Totals Notre Dame Connecticut FG Pct: Notre Dame 49.2, Connecticut PT FG Pct: Notre Dame 65.0, Connecticut FT Pct: Notre Dame 60.0, Connecticut Turnovers: Notre Dame 20, Connecticut 16. Blocked Shots: Notre Dame 2, Connecticut 4 (Stewart 3). Steals: Notre Dame 8 (Cable 3), Connecticut 13 (Jefferson 3). Attendance: 10,167 (sellout). NOTES: Notre Dame s 81 points were the most scored by any opponent at Gampel Pavilion since March 15, 1999, when UConn outlasted Xavier, in the second round of the NCAA Championship Notre Dame saw its 79-game winning streak when scoring at least 80 points snapped with its first loss in such a game since Nov. 20, 2011 (94-81 at another top-ranked opponent, Baylor, in the Preseason WNIT championship game Notre Dame s 13 three-point field goals tied a school record set twice before (most recently on Jan. 2, 2002, at Miami-Fla.) the Fighting Irish matched a UConn opponent record for three-point field goals made, a mark set six times before (most recently in the Huskies prior game at DePaul on Dec. 2), and twice before by visiting teams at Gampel Pavilion (most recently by Creighton on Nov. 23, 2014) Notre Dame s.650 three-point percentage was the sixth-best ever recorded by a UConn opponent and best since March 26, 2007, when LSU made 7-of-10 three-pointers (.700) in the NCAA Fresno Regional final (Elite Eight) in Fresno, California Notre Dame narrowly missed a rarity against UConn, shooting.492 from the field the Huskies have only allowed one team to shoot better than 50 percent from the floor in their last 413 games (Notre Dame shot.519 in its 2011 NCAA Final Four semifinal win over UConn in Indianapolis) in the 16 series games between Notre Dame and UConn since the start of the season, 11 of those contests have been decided by 10 points or less, including the past two meetings the Huskies have won the last five games in the series and take a all-time lead against the Fighting Irish in what is the most frequently-played series (45 games) in Notre Dame s 39-year women s basketball history the Fighting Irish are now (.943) in the past four seasons, with four of those losses coming when Notre Dame was missing one or more of its starting post players in addition, of those seven losses in the past four seasons, six have come against teams ranked in the top three in the polls, including the past five against UConn (the other was a regular season loss to third-ranked Baylor) the other loss was a decision at Miami on Jan. 8, 2015 Notre Dame has won 47 of its last 49 regular season road games (and 54 of 61), with its only other road loss in the regular season since December 2011 was last year s loss in Miami Notre Dame s 81 points tied for its 10th-highest total ever produced in a losing effort, and most since the loss at top-ranked Baylor on Nov. 20, 2011 that defeat also was the last time an opponent scored 91 points against Notre Dame in regulation (more recently, Notre Dame earned a overtime win at No. 25 DePaul on Dec. 10, 2014) Marina Mabrey s career-high 23 points (including a career-best three three-pointers) made her the first Fighting Irish player to come off the bench and score 20 or more points in a game since Dec. 7, 2013, when Cable dropped in a (then) career-high 21 points against UCLA at Purcell Pavilion Westbeld tied her career high with four assists. GAME 9 #3 Notre Dame 95, #18/17 DePaul 90 December 9, 2015 Purcell Pavilion (Notre Dame, Ind.) DePaul (90) Podkowa Grant Jenkins January Schulte Millender Prochaska Coleman Allen Grays Harvey-Carr Team 3 Totals Notre Dame (95) Westbeld Mabrey, Ma Allen Cable Mabrey, Mi Ogunbowale Reimer Johnson Huffman Team 4 Totals DePaul Notre Dame FG Pct: DePaul 44.9, Notre Dame PT FG Pct: DePaul 44.4, Notre Dame FT Pct: DePaul 100.0, Notre Dame Turnovers: DePaul 18, Notre Dame 18. Blocked Shots: DePaul 1, Notre Dame 2 (Cable 2). Steals: DePaul 8 (Grant, January 2), Notre Dame 10 (Allen 3). Attendance: 8,207. NOTES: Notre Dame s.765 field-goal percentage in the first half was the seventh-best mark for a single half (and third-best in the first half) of any game in school history, and the best shooting half since Dec. 30, 2011 (.800 in the first half at Mercer) Notre Dame has won 22 consecutive games decided by single digits and/or in overtime, including three of the past four games the Fighting Irish are 41-6 (.872) against ranked opponents in the past four years Notre Dame s 95 points were the most it has scored against a Top 25 opponent since Feb. 27, 2014, when it defeated No. 14/11 North Carolina, at Purcell Pavilion the 185 combined points tied for the 10th-most in a Notre Dame game in program history and most since last year s regular-season game at DePaul (which the Fighting Irish won in overtime) this was the highest scoring regulation game (in terms of combined points) for Notre Dame since Jan. 19, 2008, when it earned a win at Georgetown, highest at Purcell Pavilion since Jan. 7, 1999 (a win over West Virginia, the school record for combined points in a game), and the highest against a ranked opponent since Dec. 4, 1999 (a win over No. 9/12 North Carolina at the Wachovia Women s Basketball Invitational in Richmond, Virginia Notre Dame s 65 first-half points tied for the fourth-most by the Fighting Irish in any half in school history (third-most in the first half of any game) and most since they scored 66 points in the first half against Utah State on Dec. 8, 2012 Notre Dame s 34 first-quarter points were a season high for the Fighting Irish in any quarter Notre Dame s 11 threepoint field-goals tied its Purcell Pavilion record set twice before (most recently on Jan. 23, 1999, against St. John s) DePaul s 16-of-16 free-throw performance was the best by a visiting team (and the first perfect shooting night from the line with a minimum of 10 attempts) in Purcell Pavilion history Notre Dame shot a season-best.621 from the field the Fighting Irish have won a series-long eight in a row against DePaul and are all-time against their Midwest rivals Notre Dame s 95 points were its highest ever total in the DePaul series this marked the eighth of the past 14 series games between Notre Dame and DePaul that was decided by single digits the Fighting Irish won their 14th consecutive game coming off a double-digit loss and improved to (.827) since in that circumstance Cable collected her third career double-double and second this year, both against Top 25 teams Cable also tied her career high with five three-pointers, having first done so a week earlier against Ohio State Ogunbowale tied her career high with 16 points, having first reached that total on Nov. 23 at Valparaiso Marina Mabrey made her first college start Johnson played a career-high 28 minutes and logged her first double-digit scoring game since she had 13 points against Boston College on Jan. 11, 2015.

23 Muffet McGraw Karen and Kevin Keyes Family Head Women s Basketball Coach 29th season at ND ( ,.761) 34th season overall ( ,.751) If we searched for an entire year, I don t think we would find anyone better suited for our program. With those words, former Notre Dame director of athletics Gene Corrigan announced the hiring of Muffet McGraw as the third head coach of the Fighting Irish women s basketball program on May 18, Corrigan may not have realized it at the time, but he also ushered in an era of unparalleled success in women s basketball at Notre Dame, brought to life on the shoulders of a 5-foot-6 dynamo who accepts nothing less than the very best from herself, her players and her program. Ask anyone familiar with women s basketball about Muffet McGraw and her Notre Dame program and inevitably, you ll hear the same two words consistency and excellence. And it s no wonder, when you consider what McGraw and the Fighting Irish have achieved in the past 29 seasons: The 2001 NCAA national championship, defeating Purdue in the title game, McGraw is one of seven active Division I coaches to guide her team to a national title. Five trips to the NCAA Division I national championship game, including four of the past five NCAA title contests (2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015). McGraw is one of just two active Division I coaches (and four all-time) with at least five appearances in the NCAA national championship game the other three Division I coaches (Tennessee s Pat Summitt, UConn s Geno Auriemma and Louisiana Tech s Leon Barmore) all are enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Seven trips to the NCAA Women s Final Four (1997, 2001, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). McGraw is one of just three active Division I coaches (and five all-time) to lead her team to seven Women s Final Four appearances. 13 NCAA Sweet 16 trips, all in the past 19 seasons ( ). The Fighting Irish are one of five teams in the nation to make that claim (and five to do so in the past six years). Three-time consensus National Coach of the Year, sweeping the four major coaching honors (Associated Press, WBCA, Naismith Award and USBWA) in 2001, 2013 and McGraw is the first NCAA Division I coach to sweep the Big Four awards three times in her career. Six-time conference Coach of the Year, most recently collecting her first ACC Coach of the Year trophy in McGraw has earned her six coaching honors in five different conferences during her career (the past five awards while at Notre Dame), having also garnered accolades in the East Coast ( at Lehigh), North Star (1988), Midwestern Collegiate/Horizon League (1991), BIG EAST (2001, 2013) and Atlantic Coast (2014) conferences. Ranks 10th all-time among NCAA Division I coaches (seventh among active coaches) with 795 career wins (through Dec. 10). Ranks 14th all-time among Division I coaches (12th among active coaches) with a.751 career winning percentage (through Dec. 10). Ranks eighth all-time among NCAA Division I coaches (tied for fifth among active coaches) with win seasons, including 25 of her first 28 seasons at Notre Dame with 20-or-more victories, as well as 21 in the past 22 years ( ). The Fighting Irish also have posted win seasons, seven 30-win campaigns and four 35-win seasons in the past 18 years ( ) under McGraw s tutelage. Made 22 NCAA tournament appearances, including a current string of 20 consecutive NCAA tournament berths (the fifth-longest active run of consecutive appearances and seventh-longest streak at any time in NCAA tournament history). During this current streak ( ), Notre Dame has won at least one NCAA postseason game 18 times. Won 10 conference regular-season titles, including the past four in a row outright in both the BIG EAST (2012, 2013) and ACC (2014, 2015). The Fighting Irish also ran the table twice in that span, going 16-0 in both the BIG EAST ( ) and ACC ( ), the latter being the first 16-0 record by an ACC school in 11 seasons. What s more, under McGraw s guidance, Notre Dame has placed among the top four in the final conference standings 25 times in her first 28 seasons at the Fighting Irish helm. Earned eight conference tournament championships, including each of the past three seasons as members of the BIG EAST (2013) and ACC (2014 & 2015). Collected 127 wins over ranked opponents, including 113 in the past 18 seasons ( through ). In addition, 51 of those wins have come against top-10 opponents, including 18 against top-five teams and four against No. 1-ranked squads. Made 299 appearances in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, including an active school-record streak of 160 consecutive weeks in the AP poll. McGraw is seventh among active Division I coaches and 14th all-time in AP poll appearances (through Dec. 7). Notre Dame also has spent 187 weeks all-time ranked among the top 10 teams in the nation, including 102 since (second-most this decade). Guided Notre Dame to the No. 1 ranking in the WBCA/ USA Today coaches poll on Nov. 25 and Dec. 2, 2014, the first time the Fighting Irish were in the top spot since the final poll of Notre Dame s 2001 NCAA national championship season. Notre Dame also became the first ACC team to earn the No. 1 ranking since March 12, 2007 (Duke). 20 consecutive top-20 recruiting classes, dating back to the incoming class of 1997 (and including the incoming class of 2016, ranked as high as No. 3 in the nation). Notre Dame is one of just three programs in the nation that owns an active streak of that length. Ranks second on the all-time wins list (regardless of sport) in the 128-year history of Fighting Irish athletics, trailing only the late Michael DeCicco ( combined record with men s/women s fencing from ). Far and away the winningest basketball coach (men s or women s) in school history, with noted men s skipper Digger Phelps second on that list (393 wins). A perfect 100-percent NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) score in seven of the past eight years ( ). In that time, Notre Dame is one of four programs in the country to record a perfect GSR and go on to play for the national title later that same season (something the Fighting Irish did in , , and ). Women s Basketball Hall of Fame Consensus National Coach of the Year , 2013, 2014 Naismith National Coach of the Year Finalist , 1998, 2001, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014 Conference Coach of the Year , 1988, 1991, 2001, 2013, 2014 NCAA National Champion NCAA National Finalist , 2012, 2014, 2015 NCAA Final Four , 2001, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 NCAA Tournament , 1994, NIT , 1991, 1995 NOTE: McGraw s complete bio, including year-by-year records, can be found on pages of this year s Notre Dame women s basketball media guide or online at UND.com/ ndwbb under the roster tab on the women s basketball page.