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ACC TIPOFF NOTES

2021-22 SCHEDULE

Date Opponent

11/9 Ohio

11/11 Western Illinois

11/14 @ Syracuse*

11/18 Fordham

11/21 Bryant

11/26 vs Georgia

11/27 vs Oregon State

12/2 @ Michigan State

12/5 @ UConn

12/8 @Valpo

12/12 IPFW

12/19 Pitt*

12/22 @ DePaul

12/30 @Virginia*

1/2

@ Duke*

1/9

NC State*

1/13 @Wake Forest*

1/16 North Carolina*

1/20 @ Boston College*

1/23 @ Pitt*

1/27 Syracuse*

1/30 Boston College*

2/3

Virginia Tech*

2/6

@ Florida State*

2/10 Miami*

2/13 @ Louisville*

2/17 @ GeorgiaTech*

2/24 Clemson*

2/27 Louisville*

3/2-6 ACCTournament

TV

Time/Result

ACCNX

7 pm

ACCNX

7 pm

ACCN

Noon

ACCNX

7 pm

ACCNX

5 pm

4:30 pm

7 pm

TBD

FS1

Noon

7 pm

ACCNX

2 pm

ACCNX

2 pm

TBD

7 pm

2 pm

ACCN

2 pm

7 pm

RSN

1 pm

RSN

6 pm

2 pm

ACCN

6 pm

ACCN

2 pm

ACCN

8 pm

ACCN

2 pm

ACCN

6 pm

ESPN Networks 2 pm

ACCN

8 pm

ACCN

8 pm

ESPN/ACCN TBD

* - Atlantic Coast Conference game # - ACC Tournament (Greensboro, N.C.) ! - NCAA Championship

FIGHTING IRISH MEDIA

Primary Women's Basketball Contact

Josh Bates @Josh13Bates

jbates2@nd.edu 574-310-9954

2021-22

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72.5%

35.2%

#34

#33 24 #21 17-3 15.2 #11 10 6 Top-5 3 #5 1st

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IRISH STORYLINES

WNBA success -- Arike earned All-Star Game MVP honors. Jackie Young, Skylar Diggins-Smith and Bri Turner all still in playoff hunt. Amount of three-pointers all 3 Mabreys have made in their collegiate careers. Points wise, the trio have scored a combined 3,047 at ND of scoring returns in the form of 7 letterwinners/4 starters. Returners include All-ACC selection Maddy Westbeld and 2019 All-Freshman Team members Sam Brunelle, Anaya Peoples and Kate Gilbert. New additions include Maya Dodson, Sonia Citron and Nat Marshall, as the latter redshirted her true freshman season due to a pre-existing ACL injury. Irish went from dead last in the ACC in 3pt FG% in 2019-20 (.271) to 4th in 2020-21. ND shot 35.2%, which also ranked 41st in the country. Brunelle, Westbeld and Mabrey all shot just over 38 percent. Maddy Westbeld -- Maddy was the only freshman in the country who averaged at least 15 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists & 1.4 steals. Overall, she was just 1-of-8 Division-I players. She ranked 4th in the country among freshmen in the Points+Rebounds+Assists/Game category with 25.5 - topped ACC freshmen. ACC Freshmen-only stat rankings: 1st in Scoring, 2nd in Rebounding, 2nd in Steals, 4th in Assists & 4th in Blocks. She was the only freshman in the league to rank in the top-four in all above-mentioned categories.

Sam Brunelle -- her accuracy went way up in year two, going from 31.5 to 38.3 percent. She also improved from beyond the arc, going from 39.7 to 48.4 percent. Straight NCAA Tournament streak came to an end in 2021

Anaya Peoples -- was the only player in the ACC to average at least nine points, six rebounds, 1.5 steals and two assists.

ACC Tournament record in 8 years in the league

ppg for Westbeld -- Topped ACC freshmen & ranked 11th among Division I freshmen. Her scoring average also ranked in the ND top-three all-time behind Shari Matvey (17.6 in 1979-80) and Beth Morgan (17.9 in 1993-94). Sonia Citron -- earned a gold medal with the USA U19 team this past summer and landed a spot on the FIBA World Cup All-Star Five Team. Citron averaged 14.3 ppg and 7.7 rpg. scholarship players on roster

Westbeld became the 6th all-time player in ND history to win a conference Rookie of the Year award. She was also a FirstTeam All-ACC selection. In addition, Westbeld was 1-of-3 ND freshmen all-time ot earn WBCA All-America Regional Finalist honors, joining Brianna Turner & Skylar Diggins-Smith recruiting class in freshmen Olivia Miles and Sonia Citron

gold medalists from the 2020 Toyko Olympics. Skylar Diggins-Smith and Jewell Loyd with the national team and Jackie Young with the 3x3 team. Olivia Miles -- ND's first ever early enrollee. Ended the year with 5 straight games in double figures, averaging 10.4 ppg in that span. summer together practicing under Coach Ivey. Due to the pandemic in 2020, Niele's time with the team was limited to the fall Maya Dodson -- 3rd Stanford transfer over last five years. The 6-3 forward from Alpharetta, Georgia, had previously opted out of her senior season at Stanford. In just three years with the Cardinal, Dodson already worked herself into the program's all-time top-10 in career blocks (78) and career field goal percentage (.497).

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2021-22 QUICK FACTS

UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Location University Founded Enrollment Nickname Colors University President University Vice President/Athletics Director Senior Woman Administrator Women's Basketball Administrator

Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556 1842 8,731 (undergraduate), 12,681 total Fighting Irish Blue and Gold Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Jack Swarbrick Missy Conboy Katie Capps

NOTRE DAME STUDENT-ATHLETE AND TEAM COMMUNICATIONS

Address Associate Ath. Comm. Dir./WBB Contact E-mail Credential Applications Cell Phone Twitter Website Women's Basketball Twitter & Instagram Women's Basketball Facebook Notre Dame's Twitter & Instagram

113 Joyce Center Notre Dame, IN 46556 Josh Bates jbates2@nd.edu Email Josh Bates 574-310-9954 @Josh13Bates @NDWBB ndwbb @FightingIrish

TEAM INFORMATION Head Coach Notre Dame Record Career Record Career Record as Assistant at ND Associate Head Coach Associate Head Coach Assistant Coach Director of Operations Sport Administrator Video Coordinator Program Manager Conference Home Arena (Capacity) Starters Returning Starters Lost Returning From Injury Monogram Winners Returning Freshmen Newcomers Transferred In Transferred Out 2020-21 Record 2020-21 ACC Record Final Ranking ACC Regular-Season Finish ACC Tournament Results NCAA Tournament Results First Season Full Seasons All-Time Record NCAA Appearances/Record First/Last NCAA Appearance ACC Member ACC Regular Season Record ACC Tournament Record ACC Tournament Championships

Niele Ivey (Notre Dame `00) 10-10 (2nd season) Same 386-55 (.875) including a 45-12 record in the NCAA Tournament (12 seasons) Carol Owens (NIU `90) -- 22nd Season Coquese Washington (Notre Dame `93) -- 10th Season Michaela Mabrey (Notre Dame `16) -- 3rd Season Angie Potthoff Katie Capps James Spinelli Sharla Lewis Atlantic Coast Conference Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center (9,149) 4 1 - Vaughn Nat Marshall Mabrey, Gilbert, Prohaska, Peoples, Brunelle, Westbeld Top-5 nationally ranked recruiting class in Olivia Miles and Sonia Citron Maya Dodson - eligible this season Campbell, Abdur-Rahim, Hayes, Cosgrove 10-10 8-7 N/A 6th Lost in 2nd Round L, 68-63 to Clemson Did not qualify - First four out - broke 24-year streak 1977-78 43 1,022-361 (.739) 26 / 67-24 (.736) 1992 / 2019 2013-14 - present 107-22 (.829) 17-3 (.850) 5 (2014-17, 2019)

RADIO NETWORK INFORMATION Radio Network Contact/Play-by-Play Announcer Cell Phone Twitter

WSBT Sean Stires 574-329-1417 @SeanWSBT

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No. Name 0 Maya Dodson 1 Dara Mabrey 2 Trinity Cha 5 Olivia Miles 10 Kate Gilbert 11 Sonia Citron 12 Abby Prohaska 15 Nat Marshall 21 Anaya Peoples 25 Sarah Cernugel 33 Sam Brunelle 34 Maddy Westbeld

No. Name 33 Sam Brunelle 25 Sarah Cernugel 2 Trinity Cha 11 Sonia Citron 0 Maya Dodson 10 Kate Gilbert 1 Dara Mabrey 15 Nat Marshall 5 Olivia Miles 21 Anaya Peoples 12 Abby Prohaska 34 Maddy Westbeld

Athletic Eligibility Notes Prohaska ? Junior status Gilbert ? Junior status Marshall ? Freshman status

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2021-22 Numerical

Yr. Pos. Ht. Hometown (Previous School)

Gr. F Sr. G So. G Fr. G Sr. G Fr. G Sr. G So. F Jr. G So. G Jr. F So. F

6-3 Alpharetta, Ga. (Stanford) 5-7 Belmar, N.J. (Virginia Tech) 5-5 Irvine, Cal. (Crean Lutheran) 5-10 Phillipsburg, N.J. (Blair Academy) 5-10 Indianapolis, Ind. (Heritage Christian) 6-1 Scarsdale, N.Y. (The Ursuline School) 5-10 Liberty Township, Ohio (Lakota West) 6-5 Queens, N.Y. (Christ the King) 5-10 Danville, Ill. (Schlarman) 5-4 Westmont, Ill. (Hinsdale Central) 6-2 Ruckersville, Va. (William Monroe) 6-3 Kettering, Ohio (Fairmont)

2021-22 Alphabetical

Pos. Ht.

Jr. F So. G So. G Fr. G Gr. F Sr. G Sr. G So. F Fr. G Jr. G Sr. G So. F

Yr. Hometown (Previous School)

6-2 Ruckersville, Va. (William Monroe) 5-4 Westmont, Ill. (Hinsdale Central) 5-5 Irvine, Cal. (Crean Lutheran) 6-1 Scarsdale, N.Y. (The Ursuline School) 6-3 Alpharetta, Ga. (Stanford) 5-10 Indianapolis, Ind. (Heritage Christian) 5-7 Belmar, N.J. (Virginia Tech) 6-5 Queens, N.Y. (Christ the King) 5-10 Phillipsburg, N.J. (Blair Academy) 5-10 Danville, Ill. (Schlarman) 5-10 Liberty Township, Ohio (Lakota West) 6-3 Kettering, Ohio (Fairmont)

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Pronunciation Guide

Niele Ivey Anaya Peoples Katlyn Gilbert Abby Prohaska Dara Mabrey Sonia Citron

Knee-elle Uh-nay-uh Kate-lin Pro-HASK-kuh Dare-uh Sit-Tron

Coaching Staff

Name

Position Year

Season

Alma Mater

Niele Ivey

Karen & Kevin Keyes Family Head Coach 2nd

Notre Dame `00

Carol Owens

Associate Head Coach

22nd*

Northern Illinois '90

Coquese Washington Associate Head Coach

10th**

Notre Dame '93

Michaela Mabrey

Assistant Coach

3rd

Notre Dame '16

Katie Capps

Sport Administrator

7th

Western Kentucky '02

Angie Potthoff

Director of Basketball Operations

3rd

Penn State `97

James Spinelli

Video Coordinator

4th

Temple University `14

* - Owens is in the 12th season of her second tenure at Notre Dame (previously served on staff from 1995-2005)

** - Washington is in the 2nd season of her second tenure at Notre Dame (previously served from 1999-07)

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NIELE

IVEY

KAREN & KEVIN KEYES HEAD COACH 2ND SEASON 13 COMBINED YEARS AS A COACH 18 COMBINED YEARS ON CAMPUS IG & TWITTER: @IRISHCOACHIVEY

IVEY BIO

One of the finest point guards ever to wear the Notre Dame uniform, Niele Ivey (first name pronounced knee-L) was announced as the fourth Karen & Kevin Keyes Family Head Women's Basketball Coach on April 22, 2020, just mere minutes after Muffet McGraw stepped down from her post after a Hall of Fame career.

Ivey is the common link to all nine of the program's Final Four appearances, two as a player and seven as an assistant coach, logging a combined 18 years on Notre Dame's campus (13 as a coach and five as a player).

"I am so honored to be able to follow in the legacy that Coach McGraw built here at Notre Dame," Ivey stated. "My love and appreciation for Coach McGraw is beyond anything I can express. She's more than a mentor, more than a friend, she's one of the most influential people in my life. I am full of gratitude for Coach McGraw and what she has done for me. She was the first to give me an opportunity to play for Notre Dame and coach here as well. I will forever be grateful for her love and support. I would also like to thank Jack Swarbrick and Father Jenkins for having the faith to move this program forward with me. I can never thank you enough for this incredible opportunity."

six years as an assistant, she was directly responsible for creating the game plans that led to victories over Duke (12 times), Tennessee (8 times), Florida State (7 times), Connecticut (5 times), Maryland (three times), Louisville (8 times), Syracuse (7 times), UCLA (three times), Baylor (twice), Texas A&M (3 times) and South Carolina, among many others.

In fact, Notre Dame is 5-3 all-time against UConn in the NCAA Tournament, which more than doubles the next best team's win total. Overall, over her last 12 years, the Irish have knocked off the Huskies nine times, while all other Division I teams combined for 10 wins.

In her first year at the helm, Ivey not only had to balance settling into her new role with a young roster but also navigating the waters of both a national pandemic and a country battling systemic racism. In a shortened season due to Covid-19, Ivey's squad went 10-10 (8-7), all while using their platform to make their voices heard. Also, on her first week on the job, Coach Ivey received verbals from freshmen Sonia Citron and Olivia Miles, who made up a top-five nationally ranked recruiting class.

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As an assistant, the Irish went 386-55 (.875) during Ivey's time patrolling the sidelines. Notre Dame's recent decade of dominance (2010-19) had Ivey's handprints all over it ? no other program had produced more trips to the national title game (six), and the Irish posted the third-most wins in that span as well (339).

That decade also consisted of 14 conference championships (eight regular-season plus six tournament titles split between the BIG EAST and ACC), seven Final Fours and a 2018 national championship.

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Ivey expanded her basketball prowess when she stepped away from Notre Dame to accept an assistant coaching position with the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2019-20 season. Ivey proved to be a true trailblazer, becoming the ninth active female coach in the NBA.

Over that year, Ivey helped develop a young team, with a new coaching staff, into a playoff contender. Ivey worked with several different position groups with the Grizzlies, but primarily with standout guards Jarien Jackson and Ja Morant, as the latter won 2020 NBA Rookie of the Year honors.

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Ivey originally joined the Fighting Irish women's basketball coaching staff in May 2007 (she added the title of recruiting coordinator in 2012 and was promoted to associate head coach in the summer of 2015). Ivey went on to spend 12 seasons under Coach McGraw before departing for the Memphis Grizzlies.

Over her last eight years in particular as an assistant, Notre Dame ranked in the top-12 in field goal percentage (led the country in 2013-14 season), scoring offense and assists. In fact, Notre Dame's offense over its backto-back title game runs in 2018 and 2019 was one for the record books. The 2018 championship squad ranked in the top five in all the aforementioned categories. Meanwhile, the 2019 Irish took home the statistical championship for top-scoring offense in the country, averaging a program-record 88.6 points per game. In addition, they broke the program record for assists (804) while finishing second in shooting percentage (50.8 percent). The stat that is the icing on the cake to all of this -- the 2019 starting five of Ogunbowale, Mabrey, Shepard, Turner and Young went down as the most prolific scoring fivesome in the history of NCAA Division I basketball (men's or women's), amassing an astonishing 10,230 combined career points.

In addition to her achievements in player development with such proteges as All-Americans Skylar Diggins, Jewell Loyd, Lindsay Allen and Arike Ogunbowale, Ivey emerged as a rising star on the recruiting trail, with a sharp eye for young up-and-coming talent. In fact, she helped Notre Dame attract top-12 incoming classes in nine of her last 10 years. In her last class, Coach Ivey nabbed No. 6 Samantha Brunelle and No. 18 Anaya Peoples. Fast forward to now and Coach Ivey nabbed a top-five recruiting class in year one.

All things considered, it was no surprise when Ivey was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division I National Assistant Coach of the Year award in 2016.

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Most notable players under Ivey's tutelage: Arike Ogunbowale, Jewell Loyd and Skylar Diggins-Smith. Ogunbowale was a two-time All-American, two-time Ann Meyers Drysdale Award finalist and the 2018 Final Four MVP after her famous Ice Twice. Ogunbowale graduated as the program's all-time leading scorer. Ivey helped mold Loyd into one of the country's top players from 2012-15. Loyd finished with 1,909 points and a 17.0 career points-per-game average. Loyd's best performances came against Top 25 teams, in which she averaged 22.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, including a school record-tying 41 at DePaul. Then there's Skylar Diggins-Smith. Under Ivey's guidance, Diggins-Smith made a seamless transition from shooting guard to point guard during her final three seasons, emerging as one of the nation's elite players to become one of just three two-time recipients of the Lieberman Award and a two-time consensus first-team All-America and BIG EAST Player of the Year selection. Diggins-Smith graduated in 2013 as the holder (or co-holder) of no fewer than 32 game, season or career records at Notre Dame, and ranks among the top five on an astounding 105 of the program's game, season or career charts.

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Ivey sat out most of her freshman season at Notre Dame (1996-97 Final Four campaign) after suffering a season-ending knee injury five games in. However, she was awarded a fifth year of eligibility in 2000-01 and made the most of it, earning third-team AP All-America honors, the first Fighting Irish point guard to be so recognized. She also was the recipient of the 2001 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (nation's top senior player standing 5-foot-8 or under) and was a finalist for the 2001 Lieberman Award. In addition, Ivey made the 2001 NCAA Women's Final Four All-Tournament Team after averaging 16.5 points and 5.5 steals per game as the Fighting Irish defeated Connecticut and Purdue to win their first national title.

All told, Notre Dame went 109-22 (.832) during Ivey's last four seasons, reaching the NCAA Sweet 16 three times (1998, 2000, 2001) and rolling up a (then) school-record 34 wins in 2000-01. The Fighting Irish also won a share of their first BIG EAST regular-season championship in 2000-01 and were ranked in the top 10 of either or both the Associated Press and WBCA/USA Today polls for all but two weeks during her final three campaigns. While at Notre Dame, Ivey was a three-time all-BIG EAST selection (1999-2001), collecting first-team honors in 2001, and was tapped as the BIG EAST Player of the Week five times. She also led the Fighting Irish in steals in each of her final four seasons (1997-98 to 2000-01) and was the team's assist leader in her last three years, setting school records with 95 steals in 1999-2000 (since topped by Diggins) and 247 assists in 2000-01, along with a school-standard 2.67 assist/turnover ratio the latter season.

Ivey went on to play five seasons in the WNBA, beginning with her selection by the Indiana Fever in the second round (17th overall pick) of the 2001 WNBA Draft. She spent four seasons with the Fever, helping them to the first playoff berth in franchise history in 2002. Ivey signed with the Detroit Shock as a restricted free agent in 2005, and subsequently was acquired by the Phoenix Mercury later that season.

A native of St. Louis, Ivey graduated from Notre Dame's College of Arts and Letters in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in history.

What's more, Ivey displayed brilliant prowess when it came to scouting and in-game strategy. In her last

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