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1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Media Supplement Notre Dame Basketball Media Day October 8, p.m. ET Purcell Pavilion Notre Dame, Ind. Dates To Remember u Oct. 6 First official day of preseason practice w Check with media relations contact Chris Masters for preseason practice times/availability u Oct. 8 Notre Dame Women s Basketball Media Day u Oct. 9 Check presentation (11:45 a.m. ET - ND WBB office, Gate 1 Purcell Pavilion) w Head coach Muffet McGraw to present check for Foundation for St. Joseph Regional Medical Center with portion of donations from ND WBB Pink Zone w Last year, Irish raised more than $112,000 for cancer research; proceeds divided among two local charities (Foundation for St. Joseph Regional Medical Center and Riverbend Cancer Services) and a national charity (Kay Yow Fund). w Since Notre Dame women s basketball began Pink Zone events in 2009, Irish have raised nearly $750,000, among national leaders in donations during that span. w Pink Zone Game to be held Feb. 1 vs. Wake Forest (1 p.m. ET). w Irish also will wear pink uniforms for Feb. 16 (Duke) and Feb. 23 (Louisville) home games on ESPN2 s Big Monday to support national Play4Kay cancer initiative. u Oct. 22 ACC Media Day (9 a.m.-3 p.m. ET - Grandover Resort, Greensboro, N.C.) w Schools participate in two sessions (ND in afternoon session from 1-3 p.m. ET) w Preseason polls, preseason all-conference teams/awards announced w Interviews with players/coaches available via ACC Digital Network (satellite TBA) u Oct. 23 Single-game tickets on sale (8:30 a.m. ET - Purcell Pavilion ticket office) w Season ticket holders have early purchase option (beginning Oct. 21) w Season ticket packages sold out for sixth consecutive season (more than 7,500) w ND enjoyed 89-percent renewal rate for WBB season ticket packages in w Tickets available in person, by phone ( ) & online (und.com/buytickets) u Oct. 27 Open practice (4-5:30 p.m. ET at Purcell Pavilion) w Team will hold Meet The Freshmen event immediately after practice u Oct. 27 Associated Press preseason Top 25 poll announced (tentative) w AP Preseason All-America Teams also announced around this time (date TBA) u Oct. 29 WBCA/USA Today preseason Top 25 poll announced (tentative) u Nov. 5 Exhibition game vs. Ferris State (7 p.m. ET - Purcell Pavilion) u Nov early signing period (release/press conference TBA) u Nov. 14 Season opener vs. UMass Lowell (6 p.m. ET - Purcell Pavilion) The Starting Lineup u Notre Dame returns 10 monogram recipients, including two starters (guards Lindsay Allen and Jewell Loyd), from last year s squad that went 37-1 (16-0/1st in ACC) and advanced to the NCAA national championship game for the third time in four years (fourth time in program history) and played in the NCAA Women s Final Four for the fourth consecutive season (sixth time in program history). w Notre Dame s 10 returning monogram recipients accounted for approximately 60 percent of the team s scoring, rebounding and assist totals last season. w Leading Notre Dame s 10 returning players is Loyd (team-high 18.6 ppg., 6.5 rpg.), a junior who was a consensus All-America and first-team all-acc selection, and a finalist for both the WBCA Wade Trophy and John R. Wooden Women s Award last season. She also earned Most Valuable Player honors at both the ACC Championship and the NCAA Notre Dame Regional, as well as a spot on the NCAA Women s Final Four All-Tournament Team. Loyd is the ACC s No. 2-returning scorer this season behind only Wake Forest s Dearica Hamby (22.0 ppg.). w Also back for Notre Dame is Allen (6.2 ppg., 3.9 apg.), a sophomore who started all 38 games last year and earned Full Court Press Freshman All-America honors after leading the ACC in assist/turnover ratio (2.24) and ranking sixth in assists (third among league freshmen). What s more, Allen set a new school record for assists by a freshman (150), topping Mary Gavin s 29-year old record of 116, set in w Other notable returnees for Notre Dame include junior guard Michaela Mabrey (8.6 ppg.,.421 3FG% - fourth in ACC/second among returning players), and sophomore forward Taya Reimer (7.4 ppg., 4.6 rpg., 1.36 bpg. sixth in ACC/second among rookies/52 total blocks most by ND freshman since Ruth Riley s 71 in ). w Notre Dame welcomes a three-player freshman class that was ranked as high as No. 3 in the country by several national recruiting outlets. The trio is led by a pair of McDonald s All-America selections in forwards Brianna Turner (Pearland, Texas/ Manvel) and Kathryn Westbeld (Kettering, Ohio/Kettering Fairmont), as well as two-time Gatorade West Virginia High School Player of the Year Mychal Johnson (Huntington, W.Va./Huntington St. Joseph) Notre Dame Schedule N5 Ferris State (exhibition) 7:00 ET N14 UMass Lowell WatchND 6:00 ET Michigan State BTN 7:00 ET N21 Chattanooga WatchND 5:00 ET N23 Holy Cross 1-WatchND 5:00 ET N24 Harvard 1-WatchND 6:00 ET N25 Quinnipiac 1-WatchND 6:00 ET N30 vs. Kansas 1 1:00 ET D3 Maryland 2-ESPN3 7:00 ET D6 Connecticut 3-ESPN 3:15 ET DePaul Fox Sports 2 9:00 ET D13 Michigan WatchND 1:00 ET D21 Saint Joseph s (Pa.) WatchND 1:00 ET UCLA Pac-12 4:00 ET J2 Florida State WatchND 7:00 ET Syracuse ACC-RSN 1:00 ET Miami 7:00 ET J11 Boston College WatchND 1:00 ET North Carolina ACC-RSN 7:00 ET J19 Tennessee ESPN2-BM 7:00 ET J22 Georgia Tech ACC-RSN 7:00 ET Clemson 5:00 ET Virginia Tech ESPN3 7:00 ET F1 Wake Forest ACC-RSN 1:00 ET F5 Virginia ESPN3 7:00 ET Boston College 1:00 ET F16 Duke ESPN2-BM 9:00 ET Georgia Tech ACC-RSN 7:00 ET F23 Louisville ESPN2-BM 7:00 ET F26 Pittsburgh WatchND 7:00 ET North Carolina State ESPN3 2:00 ET M4 ACC 1st Round 4 TBA M5 ACC 2nd Round 4 TBA M6 ACC Quarterfinal 4 TBA M7 ACC Semifinal 4 TBA M8 ACC Final 4 TBA M20-23 NCAA 1st/2nd Rounds 5-ESPN/ESPN2 TBA M27-30 NCAA Regionals 6-ESPN TBA A5 NCAA National Semifinals 7-ESPN TBA A7 NCAA Championship Game 7-ESPN TBA = Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) game 1 = Hall of Fame Challenge (Nov. 30 at Mohegan Sun Arena - Uncasville, Conn.) 2 = ACC/Big Ten Challenge (Allen County War Memorial Coliseum - Fort Wayne, Ind.) 3 = Jimmy V Women s Classic (Purcell Pavilion - Notre Dame, Ind.) 4 = ACC Championship (Greensboro Coliseum - Greensboro, N.C.) 5 = NCAA Championship - 1st/2nd rounds (campus sites TBA) 6 = NCAA Championship - Regionals (Albany, N.Y.; Greensboro, N.C.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Spokane, Wash.) 7 = NCAA Women s Final Four (Amalie Arena - Tampa, Fla.) BM = Games televised live as part of ESPN2 s Big Monday package RSN = Games televised live on ACC/Regional Sports Networks package (check local listings) BTN = Game televised live on Big Ten Network PAC-12 = Game televised live on Pac-12 Networks WatchND = Games streamed live and free of charge on official Notre Dame athletics multimedia platform, WatchND (watchnd.tv) All games will be broadcast live on South Bend s Pulse FM (96.9/92.1) and worldwide on Internet (some simulcast with live stream, some audio-only broadcasts) on WatchND (watchnd.tv). All times Eastern and subject to change // All home games in boldface Notre Dame Athletic Media Relations C112 Joyce Center, Second Floor Notre Dame, IN Phone: (574) // Fax: (574) Official athletics web site: UND.com Chris Masters, Associate Media Relations Director (WBB) Desk/Cell Phone: (574) / (574) masters.5@nd.edu Notre Dame Women s Basketball Media Day (Oct. 8, 2014)

2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Women s Basketball w Turner was the Gatorade National High School Female Athlete of the Year, the second ND women s basketball player in five years to earn the honor (Skylar Diggins 2009) and was the MVP of the McDonald s High School All-America Game before earning her fifth USA Basketball gold medal in August as a member of the USA Under-18 National Team at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Colorado Springs. w Turner and Westbeld are two of six McDonald's High School All-Americans on the Notre Dame women's basketball roster, along with junior guards Jewell Loyd and Michaela Mabrey, sophomore guard Lindsay Allen and sophomore forward Taya Reimer. u The Fighting Irish also are the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference champions, having swept through their inaugural campaign in the league with a 16-0 regular season record (winning the ACC title by four games over second-place Duke and Maryland) and three more victories en route to the ACC Championship crown. w Notre Dame is (.808) all-time in regular season conference games and enters the season on a 36-game regular season league winning streak, since a home loss to then-big EAST foe West Virginia on Feb. 12, u At the conclusion of the season, Notre Dame had been ranked in the Associated Press poll for a school-record 136 consecutive weeks (including the past 66 weeks in the AP Top 10, 62 of those in the top five), dating back to the start of the season. w Notre Dame s 136-week AP poll run is the sixth-longest active streak in the nation behind only Tennessee (531), Connecticut (393), Duke (263), Stanford (247) and Baylor (202). w Notre Dame has appeared in the top 10 of the AP poll during 14 of the past 18 seasons, reaching as high as No. 2 in each of the past three seasons (and never dipping lower than seventh). In , the Fighting Irish were No. 2 in the final AP poll for the second consecutive season, the eighth time in program history (and fifth year in a row) Notre Dame appeared in the top 10 of the year-end AP poll. w No returning Fighting Irish player has suited up for a Notre Dame team ranked lower than No. 7 in the AP poll during her career. What s more, every Notre Dame returnee has played for an AP Top 5 Fighting Irish team virtually each week of their careers to date (all but the first two weeks of and seasons). w The Fighting Irish have been ranked in the AP poll for 275 weeks during the program s first 37 seasons, with all of those appearances coming under current head coach Muffet McGraw (who ranks eighth among active coaches and 16th all-time in AP poll appearances). u Notre Dame ranks third in the nation with 167 victories in the past five seasons ( through ), trailing only Connecticut (183) and Stanford (170) in that category. u Senior guards Madison Cable and Whitney Holloway and senior forward Markisha Wright have helped Notre Dame to a (.939) record in their first three seasons, far and away the most victories by a Fighting Irish class in its first three seasons behind last year s senior class of Natalie Achonwa, Ariel Braker and Kayla McBride, who was a part of 101 wins through the end of their junior years. w In their first three seasons, Cable, Holloway and Wright have helped Notre Dame to two NCAA national championship games and three NCAA Women s Final Fours (plus three conference regular season titles and two conference tournament crowns), as well as a 41-6 (.872) record against ranked teams (18-6 against AP Top 10 opponents). u Notre Dame will carry a number of winning streaks into the season: w 52 consecutive regular season wins (last loss: Dec. 5, vs. No. 3 Baylor at Purcell Pavilion) w 28 consecutive home wins (last loss: Dec. 5, vs. No. 3 Baylor at Purcell Pavilion) w 26 consecutive road wins (last loss: March 6, at No. 4 Connecticut in BIG EAST championship game) tied for fourth-longest road winning streak in NCAA Division I history (record: 30 by Connecticut from through ) w 35 consecutive regular season road wins (last loss: Nov. 20, at No. 1 Baylor in Preseason WNIT championship game) w 36 consecutive regular season conference wins (last loss: Feb. 12, vs. then-big EAST foe West Virginia at Purcell Pavilion) w 51 consecutive wins vs. opponents not ranked in AP poll (last loss: Feb. 12, vs. West Virginia at Purcell Pavilion) u Notre Dame will play half (15) of its 30 regular-season games against teams that advanced to the NCAA Championship last year, a group led by defending NCAA champion Connecticut (Dec. 6 - Purcell Pavilion), NCAA Final Four participant Maryland (Dec. 3 - Fort Wayne), NCAA Elite Eight teams North Carolina (Jan Chapel Hill) and Louisville (Feb Purcell Pavilion) and Sweet 16 qualifiers DePaul (Dec Chicago) and Tennessee (Jan Purcell Pavilion). w The Fighting Irish will play 17 regular-season games at Purcell Pavilion in , a powerful home slate that includes visits from Connecticut (Dec. 6), Tennessee (Jan. 19), Duke (Feb. 16) and Louisville (Feb. 23). w Notre Dame aims to continue its remarkable success at Purcell Pavilion, with the Fighting Irish owning a (.817) all-time record in 37 seasons at the facility, including a 78-5 (.940) record since the arena was renovated prior to the season. w For the first time in program history, Notre Dame will play an off-site home game, taking on Maryland in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Dec. 3 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It will be Notre Dame s third visit to the Summit City, but its first since Jan. 24, 1979 (a win over IPFW). w Notre Dame will play 12 regular-season games against teams that were ranked or receiving votes in one or both of the major national polls at the end of last season, including six games against teams ranked in the top 10 of the final AP poll. w Notre Dame will play host to a regional round of the inaugural Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Women s Challenge, welcoming Holy Cross, Harvard and Quinnipiac to Purcell Pavilion for three days of round-robin competition (Nov ). The Fighting Irish then travel to Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Nov. 30 for the Showcase Day of the tournament, taking on Kansas at 1 p.m. (ET) in the second of four Hall of Fame Challenge games to be played at Mohegan Sun that day. w Notre Dame plays host to Connecticut in the 13th annual Jimmy V Women s Classic on Dec. 6 at Purcell Pavilion (3:15 p.m. ET on ESPN). The rematch of last year s NCAA national championship game (the first in Division I men s or women s history between two undefeated teams) will be the first Classic appearance for the Fighting Irish, and the first regular season matchup between the two rivals since Notre Dame s epic triple-overtime win over the Huskies on March 4, 2013, at Purcell Pavilion to clinch the BIG EAST regular season title. u Notre Dame will play at least 26 of its 30 regular-season games on television this year, between commercial broadcasts and the ninth year of free web streams on WatchND (watchnd.tv). Included in this year s TV package are eight games on the ESPN family of networks (Dec. 6 Connecticut on ESPN and three Jan. 19 vs. Tennessee, Feb. 16 vs. Duke and Feb. 23 vs. Louisville as part of the ESPN2 Big Monday package; the Fighting Irish have won their last eight Big Monday games dating back to the start of the season). Notre Dame also will appear on the ACC/Regional Sports Networks broadcast four times (Jan. 4 at Syracuse, Jan. 15 at North Carolina, Feb. 1 vs. Wake Forest, Feb. 19 at Georgia Tech) the ACC-RSN reaches in excess of 51.4 million homes through many Fox Sports affiliates in the Eastern half of the United States (and additional coverage areas pending). All ACC games on the RSN package also can be seen via WatchESPN, subject to regional blackout. Notre Dame In Preseason Publications u The Sporting News 2nd (Jewell Loyd preseason 1st-team All-American; Brianna Turner preseason 3rd-team All-American) u Lindy s Sports College Basketball Preview 3rd (Jewell Loyd preseason 1st-team All-American) u espnw (25 Teams To Watch In , written immediately after 2014 NCAA Championship) 5th 2 / Notre Dame Women s Basketball Media Day (Oct. 8, 2014)

3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Women s Basketball Season in Review u On the strength of a school-record 37-game winning streak (the longest by any Notre Dame program in a team-based sport since World War II), the Fighting Irish went 37-1 (16-0/1st in ACC) and advanced to the NCAA national championship game for the third time in four years (and fourth in program history), as well as the NCAA Women s Final Four for the fourth consecutive season (sixth time in program history). w For the second consecutive season, Notre Dame was ranked No. 2 in the final Associated Press and WBCA/USA Today polls (the last AP poll is taken before the NCAA Championship). These were the highest finishes in both polls for the Fighting Irish since their national championship season, when they finished No. 2 in the AP poll and No. 1 in the WBCA/USA Today poll. w Notre Dame led the nation in field goal percentage (.506), its first NCAA statistical national championship (in a category other than win-loss percentage) since , when it led the country in field goal percentage defense, three-point percentage and blocked shots. Led by its sharp shooting numbers, Notre Dame placed among the top 20 in the nation in eight NCAA statistical categories last year, including top-five rankings in field goal percentage (1st -.506), scoring offense (2nd ppg.; the program s second consecutive season as the nation s second-highest scoring team), scoring margin (2nd ppg.), three-point field goal percentage (2nd -.402; the program s best mark from distance since a school-record.464 in ), assists (2nd apg.) and assist/turnover ratio (5th ). The Fighting Irish also ranked 12th in the nation in rebounding margin (+9.1 rpg.) and 19th in free throw percentage (.756). w Notre Dame set or tied no fewer than 19 single-season school records - most wins (37), highest winning percentage (.974), fewest losses (1), highest conference winning percentage (1.000), longest winning streak (37), longest winning streak to begin a season (37), most wins at home (17), most wins over top-10 opponents (8), most points (3,271), highest scoring average (86.1 ppg.), most 80-point games (29), most 90-point games (12), most 100-point games (5), most field goals made (1,227), most field goals attempted (2,423), most three-point field goals made (190), most assists (765), highest assist/turnover ratio (1.39) and fewest times fouled out (3). w Notre Dame finished a school record-tying fourth in the nation in average attendance at 8,694 fans per game (better than 95 percent of Purcell Pavilion s official capacity of 9,149, tops in the country among percentage of arena capacity filled). The Fighting Irish also posted their 14th consecutive NCAA top-16 attendance ranking, and 10th top-10 finish (eighth consecutive) in (including their fifth consecutive top-five showing), while attracting five sellout crowds, including both NCAA regional sessions (the only NCAA regional site in 2014 to sell out both sessions). Notre Dame has drawn 35 capacity crowds to Purcell Pavilion in the past five seasons after having a total of six sellouts in its first 32 years of competition. w For the second consecutive season and third time in her Hall of Fame career (along with ), head coach Muffet McGraw was the consensus National Coach of the Year, earning honors from the Associated Press, Women s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and the Naismith Award. She s the first NCAA Division I coach to sweep those four major national coaching honors three times, and just the second to do so in consecutive season, joining Connecticut s Geno Auriemma ( and ). w Graduated senior guard Kayla McBride was a consensus first-team All-America choice, earning top honors from the Associated Press, WBCA, USBWA, John R. Wooden Award, espnw (unanimous) and Sports Illustrated. w Jewell Loyd earned a spot on the WBCA Coaches and USBWA All-America teams in , in addition to garnering second-team All- America accolades from the Associated Press and espnw. McBride and Loyd became the second Notre Dame pair in as many years to make the WBCA Coaches All-America Team in the same season (Skylar Diggins joined McBride in ). Senior forward Natalie Achonwa also garnered All-America plaudits, picking up third-team honors from the Associated Press. w Loyd was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Notre Dame Regional, the first Fighting Irish sophomore chosen since Diggins at the 2011 Dayton Regional. Loyd was joined on the 2014 NCAA Notre Dame Regional All-Tournament Team by Achonwa and McBride. u The Fighting Irish also are the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference champions, having swept through their inaugural campaign in the league with a 16-0 regular season record (winning the ACC title by four games over second-place Duke and Maryland) and three more victories en route to the ACC Championship crown. w Notre Dame won its third consecutive outright regular season conference title (2012 and 2013 in BIG EAST), a first in the program s 37-year history. The Irish, who have earned 11 regular season championships across their various league memberships, had won three in a row in the Midwestern Collegiate Conference/Horizon League ( through ), but the first of those was shared with Loyola-Chicago. w The Irish were the first team in ACC history to win the conference title in their inaugural season as a league member (the ACC first sponsored the sport in ). w Notre Dame became the first team in ACC history to run the table in regular season play since (North Carolina went 14-0) and the first to go 16-0 in a league slate since (Duke). w The Irish were the fourth ACC school to win the conference regular season title by at least four games (first since Duke won by five games in ). w Notre Dame won its second consecutive conference tournament championship and seventh in program history. The Irish also collected backto-back league tournament trophies for the first time since a four-year run in the MCC ( ). w Notre Dame is (.808) all-time in regular season conference games and enters the season on a 36-game regular season league winning streak, since a home loss to then-big EAST foe West Virginia on Feb. 12, u McBride (3rd - San Antonio) and Achonwa (9th - Indiana) were selected in the first round of the 2014 WNBA Draft, with McBride matching Devereaux Peters ( Minnesota) and Diggins ( Tulsa) as the highest draft pick (and third consecutive lottery selection) in Notre Dame women s basketball history (the Fighting Irish are just the second program ever to field three consecutive lottery picks). w McBride was a unanimous choice for the 2014 WNBA All-Rookie Team after starting all 34 games for San Antonio and scoring 442 points, the most by a Stars rookie since the franchise relocated from Salt Lake City in The Erie, Pennsylvania, product ranked among the top 10 league rookies in scoring (3rd - team-high 13.0 ppg.), three-point percentage (1st -.396; also sixth among all WNBA players), free throw percentage (1st -.846; also 14th among all WNBA players), assists (7th apg.) and steals (7th spg.). She scored in double figures 20 times, including six 20-point games and a career-high 30 points on two occasions, both at home (May 28 against Tulsa; July 9 against New York), while leading San Antonio to the WNBA Western Conference semifinals (averaged 22.5 ppg. in two playoff games). w Diggins, who was a 2013 WNBA All-Rookie Team pick, earned first-team all-wnba honors in 2014 and was the league s Most Improved Player after finishing second in the WNBA at 20.1 points per game. A 2014 WNBA Western Conference All-Star starter, Diggins also wound up fourth in the league at 5.0 assists per game. What s more, the South Bend, Indiana, native started all 34 games for Tulsa in 2014, leading the Shock in points, assists, steals (1.5 per game) and minutes (league-leading 35.1 per game), while scoring in double figures 33 times, including point games, four 30-point outings and a career-high 34 points on July 22 at San Antonio. Diggins added a team-high 27 points in the 2014 WNBA All-Star Game, the second-highest point total in the game s history. Notre Dame Women s Basketball Media Day (Oct. 8, 2014) / 3

4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Women s Basketball NOTRE DAME WOMEN S BASKETBALL ROSTERS Numerical No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School) 3 Whitney Holloway*** (C) G 5-4 Sr. Plainfield, Ill. (Montini Catholic) 11 Brianna Turner F 6-3 Fr. Pearland, Texas (Manvel) 12 Taya Reimer* F 6-3 So. Fishers, Ind. (Hamilton Southeastern) 14 Mychal Johnson G 5-8 Fr. Huntington, W.Va. (Huntington St. Joseph) 15 Lindsay Allen* G 5-7 So. Mitchellville, Md. (St. John s College) 21 Kristina Nelson* F 6-3 So. Buford, Ga. (Buford) 22 Madison Cable** G 5-11 Sr. Mt. Lebanon, Pa. (Mt. Lebanon) 23 Michaela Mabrey** (C) G 5-10 Jr. Belmar, N.J. (Manasquan) 24 Hannah Huffman** G 5-9 Jr. Diablo, Calif. (Carondelet) 32 Jewell Loyd** G 5-10 Jr. Lincolnwood, Ill. (Niles West) 33 Kathryn Westbeld F 6-2 Fr. Kettering, Ohio (Kettering Fairmont) 34 Markisha Wright*** (C) F 6-2 Sr. Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines East) 35 Diamond Thompson* C 6-4 So. Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton Warrenville South) NOTES: players are listed by their academic class year (Cable has two years of athletic eligibility remaining) // * - monograms earned // (C) - captain Alphabetical No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School) 15 Lindsay Allen* G 5-7 So. Mitchellville, Md. (St. John s College) 22 Madison Cable** G 5-11 Sr. Mt. Lebanon, Pa. (Mt. Lebanon) 3 Whitney Holloway*** (C) G 5-4 Sr. Plainfield, Ill. (Montini Catholic) 24 Hannah Huffman** G 5-9 Jr. Diablo, Calif. (Carondelet) 14 Mychal Johnson G 5-8 Fr. Huntington, W.Va. (Huntington St. Joseph) 32 Jewell Loyd** G 5-10 Jr. Lincolnwood, Ill. (Niles West) 23 Michaela Mabrey** (C) G 5-10 Jr. Belmar, N.J. (Manasquan) 21 Kristina Nelson* F 6-3 So. Buford, Ga. (Buford) 12 Taya Reimer* F 6-3 So. Fishers, Ind. (Hamilton Southeastern) 35 Diamond Thompson* C 6-4 So. Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton Warrenville South) 11 Brianna Turner F 6-3 Fr. Pearland, Texas (Manvel) 33 Kathryn Westbeld F 6-2 Fr. Kettering, Ohio (Kettering Fairmont) 34 Markisha Wright*** (C) F 6-2 Sr. Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines East) NOTES: players are listed by their academic class year (Cable has two years of athletic eligibility remaining) // * - monograms earned // (C) - captain Coaching Staff Name Position Year at ND Alma Mater Muffet McGraw Head Coach 28th Saint Joseph s (Pa.) 77 Carol Owens Associate Head Coach 15th* Northern Illinois 90 Beth Cunningham Associate Coach 3rd Notre Dame 97 Niele Ivey Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coord. 8th Notre Dame 00 Garret Garcia Video Coordinator 1st Toledo 12 Katie Schwab Operations Specialist 2nd Saint Mary s (Ind.) 13 Natalie Achonwa Operations Specialist 1st Notre Dame 14 * - Owens is in fifth season of second tenure at Notre Dame, having also served on staff from Pronunciation Guide Natalie Achonwa Niele Ivey Michaela Mabrey Taya Reimer Brianna Turner Markisha Wright uh-chawn-wuh knee-ell MAY-bree TAY-uh RYE-mer bree-on-uh marr-key-shuh Roster Breakdown By Class Seniors...3* Juniors... 3 Sophomores... 4 Freshmen... 3 * - Cable has two years of athletic eligibility remaining By Position Forwards... 5 Centers... 1 Guards... 7 By Home State Illinois... 3 Pennsylvania... 1 California... 1 Georgia... 1 Indiana... 1 Iowa... 1 Maryland... 1 New Jersey... 1 Ohio... 1 Texas... 1 West Virginia... 1 By Height Thompson Nelson Reimer Turner Westbeld Wright Cable Loyd Mabrey Huffman Johnson Allen Holloway Carondelet Manasquan kuh-ron-duh-let MAN-uh-SKWAN 4 / Notre Dame Women s Basketball Media Day (Oct. 8, 2014)

5 Notre Dame Combined Team Statistics (FINAL) All games Overall record: 37-1 Conf: 16-0 Home: 17-0 Away: 13-0 Neutral: 7-1 Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 32 Jewell Loyd Kayla McBride Natalie Achonwa Michaela Mabrey Taya Reimer Lindsay Allen Madison Cable Ariel Braker Markisha Wright Kristina Nelson Whitney Holloway Hannah Huffman Diamond Thompson Team Total Opponents TEAM STATISTICS 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 ATTENDANCE Home games-avg/game Neutral site-avg/game Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals Notre Dame Opponents Date Opponent Score Att. 11/09/13 UNC WILMINGTON W /11/13 MICHIGAN STATE W /16/13 VALPARAISO W /23/13 at Penn W /26/13 DEPAUL W /01/13 vs Duquesne W /04/13 at Penn State W /07/13 UCLA W /14/13 at Michigan W /22/13 CENTRAL MICHIGAN W /29/13 at Oregon State W /02/14 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE W * 01/05/14 CLEMSON W * 01/09/14 BOSTON COLLEGE W * 01/12/14 at Virginia W * 01/16/14 at Pittsburgh W /20/14 at Tennessee W * 01/23/14 MIAMI W * 01/27/14 at Maryland W * 01/30/14 VIRGINIA TECH W * 02/02/14 at Duke W * 02/06/14 at Florida State W * 02/09/14 SYRACUSE W * 02/13/14 at Boston College W * 02/17/14 GEORGIA TECH W * 02/20/14 at Wake Forest W * 02/23/14 DUKE W * 02/27/14 NORTH CAROLINA W * 03/02/14 at North Carolina State W /07/14 vs Florida State W /08/14 vs NC State W /09/14 vs Duke W /22/14 vs Robert Morris W /24/14 vs Arizona State W /29/14 OKLAHOMA STATE W /31/14 BAYLOR W /06/14 vs Maryland W /08/14 vs Connecticut L * = Atlantic Coast Conference game 1 = Game played at Toronto, Ontario 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge 3 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) 4 = NCAA Championship - First/Second Rounds (Toledo, Ohio) 5 = NCAA Notre Dame Regional (Notre Dame, Ind.) 6 = NCAA Women's Final Four (Nashville, Tenn.)

6 Notre Dame Combined Team Statistics (FINAL) Conference games RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 32 Jewell Loyd Kayla McBride Natalie Achonwa Michaela Mabrey Taya Reimer Lindsay Allen Ariel Braker Madison Cable Kristina Nelson Markisha Wright Whitney Holloway Hannah Huffman Diamond Thompson Team Total Opponents TEAM STATISTICS 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 ATTENDANCE Home games-avg/game Neutral site-avg/game Date Opponent Score Att. * 01/05/14 CLEMSON W * 01/09/14 BOSTON COLLEGE W * 01/12/14 at Virginia W * 01/16/14 at Pittsburgh W * 01/23/14 MIAMI W * 01/27/14 at Maryland W * 01/30/14 VIRGINIA TECH W * 02/02/14 at Duke W * 02/06/14 at Florida State W * 02/09/14 SYRACUSE W * 02/13/14 at Boston College W * 02/17/14 GEORGIA TECH W * 02/20/14 at Wake Forest W * 02/23/14 DUKE W * 02/27/14 NORTH CAROLINA W * 03/02/14 at North Carolina State W * = Atlantic Coast Conference game 1 = Game played at Toronto, Ontario 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals Notre Dame Opponents

7 Notre Dame Combined Team Statistics (FINAL) NCAA Tournament RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 11 Natalie Achonwa Jewell Loyd Kayla McBride Madison Cable Michaela Mabrey Taya Reimer Lindsay Allen Ariel Braker Markisha Wright Hannah Huffman Whitney Holloway Kristina Nelson Diamond Thompson Team Total Opponents TEAM STATISTICS 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 ATTENDANCE Home games-avg/game Neutral site-avg/game Date Opponent Score Att. 4 03/22/14 vs Robert Morris W /24/14 vs Arizona State W /29/14 OKLAHOMA STATE W /31/14 BAYLOR W /06/14 vs Maryland W /08/14 vs Connecticut L * = Atlantic Coast Conference game 1 = Game played at Toronto, Ontario 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge 3 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) 4 = NCAA Championship - First/Second Rounds (Toledo, Ohio) 5 = NCAA Notre Dame Regional (Notre Dame, Ind.) 6 = NCAA Women's Final Four (Nashville, Tenn.) Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals Notre Dame Opponents

8 Notre Dame Combined Team Statistics (as of Mar 09, 2014) ACC Tournament RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 32 Jewell Loyd Kayla McBride Michaela Mabrey Natalie Achonwa Madison Cable Taya Reimer Markisha Wright Diamond Thompson Ariel Braker Whitney Holloway Hannah Huffman Lindsay Allen Kristina Nelson Team Total Opponents TEAM STATISTICS 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 7 11 Blocks per game ATTENDANCE Home games-avg/game Neutral site-avg/game Date Opponent Score Att. 3 03/07/14 vs Florida State W /08/14 vs NC State W /09/14 vs Duke W * = Atlantic Coast Conference game 1 = Game played at Toronto, Ontario 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge 3 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals Notre Dame Opponents

9 Notre Dame Combined Team Statistics (FINAL) Postseason games RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 32 Jewell Loyd Kayla McBride Natalie Achonwa Michaela Mabrey Madison Cable Taya Reimer Ariel Braker Lindsay Allen Markisha Wright Diamond Thompson Hannah Huffman Whitney Holloway Kristina Nelson Team Total Opponents TEAM STATISTICS 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 ATTENDANCE Home games-avg/game Neutral site-avg/game Date Opponent Score Att. 3 03/07/14 vs Florida State W /08/14 vs NC State W /09/14 vs Duke W /22/14 vs Robert Morris W /24/14 vs Arizona State W /29/14 OKLAHOMA STATE W /31/14 BAYLOR W /06/14 vs Maryland W /08/14 vs Connecticut L * = Atlantic Coast Conference game 1 = Game played at Toronto, Ontario 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge 3 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) 4 = NCAA Championship - First/Second Rounds (Toledo, Ohio) 5 = NCAA Notre Dame Regional (Notre Dame, Ind.) 6 = NCAA Women's Final Four (Nashville, Tenn.) Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals Notre Dame Opponents

10 Notre Dame Combined Team Statistics (FINAL) Ranked opponents RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 21 Kayla McBride Jewell Loyd Natalie Achonwa Taya Reimer Michaela Mabrey Lindsay Allen Madison Cable Ariel Braker Markisha Wright Diamond Thompson Whitney Holloway Hannah Huffman Kristina Nelson Team Total Opponents TEAM STATISTICS 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 ATTENDANCE Home games-avg/game Neutral site-avg/game Date Opponent Score Att. 11/11/13 MICHIGAN STATE W /26/13 DEPAUL W /04/13 at Penn State W /20/14 at Tennessee W * 01/27/14 at Maryland W * 02/02/14 at Duke W * 02/23/14 DUKE W * 02/27/14 NORTH CAROLINA W * 03/02/14 at North Carolina State W /08/14 vs NC State W /09/14 vs Duke W /29/14 OKLAHOMA STATE W /31/14 BAYLOR W /06/14 vs Maryland W /08/14 vs Connecticut L * = Atlantic Coast Conference game 1 = Game played at Toronto, Ontario 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge 3 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) 4 = NCAA Championship - First/Second Rounds (Toledo, Ohio) 5 = NCAA Notre Dame Regional (Notre Dame, Ind.) 6 = NCAA Women's Final Four (Nashville, Tenn.) Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals Notre Dame Opponents

11 Notre Dame Combined Team Statistics (FINAL) Home games RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds ## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg 32 Jewell Loyd Kayla McBride Natalie Achonwa Michaela Mabrey Lindsay Allen Taya Reimer Madison Cable Ariel Braker Kristina Nelson Markisha Wright Whitney Holloway Hannah Huffman Diamond Thompson Team Total Opponents TEAM STATISTICS 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 ATTENDANCE Home games-avg/game Neutral site-avg/game Date Opponent Score Att. 11/09/13 UNC WILMINGTON W /11/13 MICHIGAN STATE W /16/13 VALPARAISO W /26/13 DEPAUL W /07/13 UCLA W /22/13 CENTRAL MICHIGAN W /02/14 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE W * 01/05/14 CLEMSON W * 01/09/14 BOSTON COLLEGE W * 01/23/14 MIAMI W * 01/30/14 VIRGINIA TECH W * 02/09/14 SYRACUSE W * 02/17/14 GEORGIA TECH W * 02/23/14 DUKE W * 02/27/14 NORTH CAROLINA W /29/14 OKLAHOMA STATE W /31/14 BAYLOR W * = Atlantic Coast Conference game 1 = Game played at Toronto, Ontario 2 = Big Ten/ACC Challenge 3 = ACC Championship (Greensboro, N.C.) 4 = NCAA Championship - First/Second Rounds (Toledo, Ohio) 5 = NCAA Notre Dame Regional (Notre Dame, Ind.) 6 = NCAA Women's Final Four (Nashville, Tenn.) Score by Periods 1st 2nd Totals Notre Dame Opponents