Dear Fans, On behalf of our respective conferences, we would like to extend a warm welcome to this year’s ACC/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge. Over the past year our offices, in conjunction with our member schools, have worked hard to make this a special and exciting event for the student-athletes, coaches and fans. We think that matching our two conferences’ teams together on the hardwood continues to be a great showcase for both ACC and Big Ten women’s basketball. As dedicated and loyal fans, we sincerely hope you enjoy tonight’s game. There is certainly a rich women’s basketball tradition in both conferences. The 22 teams that are participating in the Challenge have collectively combined for three National Championships, 267 NCAA Tournament appearances, 20 Final Four ap-pearances and 12 National Player of the Year awards. The ACC and Big Ten institutions have a tremendous history of academic and ath-letic balance, and we are extremely excited to shine the spotlight on what has made both leagues so strong – the student-athletes, coaches and fans. Sincerely,

John D. Swofford James E. Delany ACC Commissioner Big Ten Commissioner

James E. DelanyJohn D. Swofford ACC Commissioner

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Dear Fans,

On behalf of our respective conferences, we would like to extend a warm welcome to this year’s Big Ten/ACC Women’s Basketball Challenge.

Over the past year our offi ces, in conjunction with our member schools, have worked hard to make this a special and exciting event for the players, coaches and fans. We think that getting our two conferences’ teams together on the hardwood is going to be a great showcase for both ACC and Big Ten women’s basketball. As dedicated and loyal fans, we sincerely hope you enjoy tonight’s Challenge game.

The 24 teams that are participating in this Challenge have collectively compiled a rich women’s basketball history that includes three national championships, 251 NCAA Tournament appearances, 20 Final Four appearances and 11 National Player of the Year awards.

The Big Ten and ACC institutions have tremendous traditions of academic and athletic balance, and we are extremely excited to shine the spotlight on what has made both leagues so strong – the student-athletes, coaches and fans.

Sincerely,

John D. SwoffordACC Commissioner

James E. DelanyBig Ten Commissioner

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TEAMNOTES

TEAMNOTES

NEBRASKACORNHUSKERS

GEORGIA TECHYELLOW JACKETS

TYAUNNA MARSHALLLINDSEY MOORE

HEAD COACHConnie Yori

HEAD COACHMaChelle Joseph

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

00 Lindsey Moore G

3 Hailie Sample F

5 Kaitlyn Burke G

10 Meghin Williams F

11 Tear’a Laudermill G

13 Brandi Jeffery G

14 Katie Simon F

21 Harleen Sidhu F

23 Emily Cady F

33 Rebecca Woodberry G

35 Jordan Hooper F

55 Adrianna Maurer C

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

1 Dawnn Maye G2 Mo Bennett G3 Sharena Taylor G4 Sarah Hartwell G5 Metra Walthour G10 Danielle Hamilton-Carter F12 Frida Fogdemark G14 LaQuananisha Adams C15 Tyaunna Marshall G23 Sydney Wallace G24 Shayla Bivins C32 Chelsea Regins F41 Tjasa Gortnar F44 Jasmine Blain G/F

45 Sasha Goodlett C

Georgia Tech seeks its sixth consecutive 20 win season and sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011-12.

The Yellow Jackets will look to build on program bests of 24 overall wins and nine ACC wins in 2010-11.

Head Coach MaChelle Joseph will look to fi ve seniors to replace the graduated Alex Montgomery andDeja Foster.

Tyaunna Marshall returns after a breakout rookie campaign, in which she earned Third Team All-ACC, ACC All-Freshman and ACC All-Tournament Second Team accolades.

The Yellow Jackets return three starters from 2010-11: senior point guard Metra Walthour, senior center Sasha Goodlett and Marshall, a guard.

Tech’s incoming freshmen class was ranked No. 21 by ESPN HoopGurlz. The class consists of Tjasa Gortnar, a forward from Slovenia, Sarah Hartwell, a guard from Tacoma, Wash., and Sydney Wallace, a guard from Johns Creek, Ga.

Not only will Nebraska be competing for the fi rst time as a member of the

Big Ten Conference in 2011-12, half of the Husker

roster will be competing for the fi rst time

collegiately. Nebraska’s 12-player roster consists of

four true freshmen (Emily Cady, Brandi Jeffery, Tear’a Laudermill, Hailie Sample) and two redshirt freshmen

(Katie Simon, Rebecca Woodberry) who will be

playing their fi rst games as collegians this season.

Kaitlyn Burke has demonstrated her

outstanding character on and off the court in her time at Nebraska. The

fi fth-year senior has not only played 101 career

games with 48 starts, she is also a nominee for

the 2012 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award and will

be a CoSIDA Academic All-America nominee.

The advertising and business administration

major carries better than a 3.5 GPA and is the

President of Nebraska’s Student-Athlete Advisory

Committee.

Junior point guard Lindsey Moore and sophomore forward

Jordan Hooper enter 2011-12 as a dynamic

combination for the Huskers. Moore earned

honorable-mention All-Big 12 accolades in 2010-11 by averaging 14.1 points and 5.9 assists per game, including 21.0 points and

8.2 assists over the fi nal fi ve games. Hooper led

the Huskers with 14.6 points per game on the season while leading all

Big 12 freshmen with 6.6 rebounds per game

and setting the Nebraska freshman record with 67

three-pointers.

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TEAMNOTES

TEAMNOTES

MICHIGANWOLVERINES

MARYLANDTERRAPINS

ALYSSA THOMASCARMEN REYNOLDS

HEAD COACHKevin Borseth

HEAD COACHBrenda Frese

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

1 Brenae Harris G

2 Courtney Boylan G

4 Jamillya Hardley G/F

11 Sam Arnold F

12 Kate Thompson G

14 Nicole Elmblad G

21 Nya Jordan F

22 Cyesha Goree F

23 Aquashia Anderson G

24 Jenny Ryan G

33 Carmen Reynolds G/F

34 Val Driscoll C/F

44 Rachel Sheffer C/F

54 Kendra Seto F/C

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

00 Sequoia Austin G

01 Laurin Mincy G

03 Brene Moseley G

05 Essence Townsend C

10 Anjalé Barrett G

13 Alicia DeVaughn C

21 Tianna Hawkins F

22 Kim Rodgers G

25 Alyssa Thomas F

32 Whitney Bays F

40 Katie Rutan G

Head Coach Brenda Frese is entering her 10th year at the helm of the Maryland program. In 10 years, she’s increased the program’s winning percentage by almost 10 percent (currently over 73 percent from 64 percent). She’s brought the program its fi rst national championship, three Elite Eights and seven NCAA Tournament appearances in her nine postseasons. Frese has also brought in eight top 15 recruiting classes and brought home the fi rst ACC title in over 20 years in 2009.

The Terps are again one of the nation’s tallest teams with their average height just over 6-0. Seven of the team’s 12 players are over the 6-0 mark.

Look for the Terps to again lead the ACC in rebounding, as their four top rebounders return. Last season, the Terrapins averaged 45.7 boards per game. Their rebounding margin (+12.1) was in the top three of the country throughout the year.

Freshman Alyssa Thomas, the 2011 ACC Rookie of the Year, will look to strengthen her already impressive game. The 6-2 sophomore led the team in scoring and steals and was second in rebounds. She fi nished her freshman year in the top fi ve of the league in scoring and rebounding and No. 10 in steals.

Head Coach Kevin Borseth posted a winning season in 22 of the last 23 years

including 17 seasons with 20 or more wins. His 500th

NCAA game in U-M’s 60-53 win over Iowa (Jan.

2, 2011). Borseth, who has an overall record of 508-220 against NCAA

opponents, and a 573-271 overall record, is in his

30th year of coaching and has spent time at Gogebic

C.C., Michigan Tech and UW-Green Bay before

taking over at Michigan in 2007-08.

Returning starters Rachel Sheffer and Carmen

Reynolds return after averaging in double fi gures last season.

The Wolverines return their leaders in steals (Jenny Ryan), assists

(Jenny Ryan), and blocks (Rachel Sheffer).

Senior guard/forward Carmen Reynolds will

enter the 2011-12 season with 893 career points.

With a 29-game regular season schedule, she will

need to average 3.6 points per game to reach 1,000

career points. Reynolds has also started in 65

straight contests dating back to the start of her

sophomore season.

Michigan moved to a perfect 4-0 in Big Ten/ACC

Challenge games with a win over Wake Forest last

year. U-M is the lone team from the Big Ten with

a perfect record in the annual challenge.

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TEAMNOTES

NORTH CAROLINATAR HEELS

PENN STATELADY LIONS

ALEX BENTLEYCHAY SHEGOG

HEAD COACHSylvia Hatchell

HEAD COACHCoquese

Washington

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

01 She’la White G

02 Latifah Coleman G

03 Megan Buckland G

04 Candace Wood G

05 Shannon Smith G

10 Danielle Butts G

11 Brittany Rountree G

20 Chay Shegog C

21 Krista Gross F

24 Whitney Adams F

32 Waltiea Rolle C

33 Laura Broomfi eld F

44 Tierra Ruffi n-Pratt G

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

2 Dara Taylor G

5 Talia East F/C

12 Zhaque Gray G

15 Renee Womack G

20 Alex Bentley G

23 Ariel Edwards F

24 Mia Nickson F

25 Gizelle Studevent G

33 Maggie Lucas G

40 Marisa Wolfe F

44 Tori Waldner F

54 Nikki Greene F/C

The Lady Lions return 88 percent of its scoring output from a year ago with 10 letterwinners, including four starters, back in the fold.

Earlier this season, sophomore guard Alex Bentley became the 14th player in school history to register 300 career assists. Last season, she became the 11th different player in school history to garner All-Big Ten fi rst accolades.

Maggie Lucas also returns for the Lady Lions after claiming 2011 Big Ten Freshman of the Year and Sixth Player of the Year honors. She broke the Big Ten and Penn State three-point fi eld goals made, as well as the Penn State freshman scoring record as a rookie last season.

Senior Zhaque Gray made a marked improvement between her sophomore and junior years as she improved on her three-point shooting by 11 percent (.303 to .414) and her fi eld goal shooting by 8.5 percent (.338 to .423). Additionally, the Chicago native also nearly doubled her scoring output to fi nish fourth on the team with a 9.5 scoring average.

Junior center Nikki Greene became one of the top shot-blocking forces in the conference with 75 rejections en route to Big Ten All-Defensive Team honors a season ago. The All-Big Ten honorable mention choice also accounted for 7.8 rebounds per game to rank sixth in the Big Ten.

Sylvia Hatchell is in her 26th season at UNC and

her 37th overall as a head coach. Beginning the

2011-12 season with a career record of 859-303,

Hatchell ranked third among active Division I coaches in wins behind

Pat Summitt and C. Vivian Stringer. In addition, last

year’s 28-9 campaign gave her 27 20-plus win

seasons, fourth-most all-time.

Carolina junior Krista Gross spent the summer

representing Finland in international competition.

Gross, who has dual citizenship with the

United States and Finland, competed in the

EuroBasket Additional Qualifying Tournament

in June before traveling to China for the World

University Games in August.

Carolina returns two of the top 10 shot blockers in

school history in 2011-12. Junior Waltiea Rolle, who will be sidelined this year

due to pregnancy, entered the season ranking fi fth with 154 career blocks,

while senior Chay Shegog was 10th with 102.

The departed senior class of Jessica Breland,

Cetera DeGraffenreid, Italee Lucas and Nicole

Powell accounted for 47.8 percent of Carolina’s

scoring in 2010-11.

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TEAMNOTES

TEAMNOTES

VIRGINIA TECHHOKIES

IOWAHAWKEYES

JAIME PRINTYNIA EVANS

HEAD COACHDennis Wolff

HEAD COACHLisa Bluder

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

03 Aerial Wilson G

13 Alyssa Fenyn G

20 Nia Evans F

21 Brittni Montgomery F

22 Porschia Hadley F/C

23 Larryqua Hall G

31 Monet Tellier G

32 Taylor Ayers C

43 Latorri Hines-Allen F

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

2 Kamille Wahlin G

3 Kalli Hansen F

4 Megan Considine G

11 Trisha Nesbitt G

12 Morgan Johnson C

20 Kelly Krei F

21 Melissa Dixon G

22 Samantha Logic G

23 Theairra Taylor G

24 Jaime Printy G

32 Jade Rogers F

33 Kathryn Reynolds G

34 Virginia Johnson F

51 Bethany Doolittle C

Iowa returns four starters from last year’s team that fi nished 22-9 overall and 10-6 in Big Ten play.

Head Coach Lisa Bluder has led the Hawkeyes to eight NCAA Tournament appearances in her 11 years at Iowa, including the last four years in a row.

Junior Jaime Printy was one of 25 NCAA Division I players chosen for the “Wade Watch” preseason list for the State Farm Wade Trophy Division I Player of the Year award.

Iowa’s freshmen class was ranked the 11th best recruiting class of 2011 by ESPNHoopGurlz.com.

Freshman Samantha Logic is the third McDonald’s High School All-American to play for the Hawkeyes under Head Coach Lisa Bluder.

Dennis Wolff is in his fi rst year as head coach.

Wolff served as the head men’s basketball coach

at Boston University from 1994-2009. Under Wolff’s guidance, the team won

three straight conference titles and made four

consecutive postseason appearances.

Sophomore Porschia Hadley, who missed all

but eight games last season due to knee

surgery, returns to provide support in the paint. As a freshman in 2009-10,

Hadley averaged 4.4 points and 2.9 rebounds and scored a career-high

15 points at No. 10 Florida State. She also collected a career-high four blocks in an upset victory over No. 10 North Carolina. In the eight games she played

during her sophomore season, Hadley averaged 4.3 points, 4.9 rebounds

and one block per game.

Junior Alyssa Fenyn was the second in scoring (9.4)

and assists (67). Fenyn tossed in a career-high 17

points against Georgia Tech, Wake Forest

and Virginia.

Sophomore Monet Tellier had a solid freshman season averaging 8.0

points and 4.1 rebounds and was second on team with 41 steals. Tellier had

a career-high 23 points against both Vanderbilt

and NC State.

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TEAMNOTES

TEAMNOTES

BOSTON COLLEGEEAGLES

WISCONSINBADGERS

TAYLOR WURTZKERRI SHIELDS

HEAD COACHSylvia Crawley

HEAD COACHBobbie Kelsey

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

01 Alyssa Fressle G

03 Tessah Holt G

05 Marissa Mello G

10 Kerri Shields G

20 Shayra Brown G

21 Kristen Doherty F

22 Joy Caracciolo F

25 Diedra Smith F

31 Tiffany Ruffi n G

32 Victoria Lesko F

33 Korina Chapman F

44 Kat Cooper G

45 Katie Zenevitch F

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

00 Jade Davis G

1 Kelly Supernaw G

2 Taylor Wurtz G

3 AnnMarie Brown G/F

5 Morgan Paige G

12 Lindsay Smith G

20 Lacia Gorman G

23 Ashley Thomas F

24 Tiera Stephen G

35 Jacki Gulczynski G/F

40 Anya Covington F

43 Cassie Rochel F/C

Wisconsin began a new era in April as Bobbie Kelsey was named the Badgers’ head coach. She became the sixth head coach in UW women’s basketball history.

The Badgers have qualifi ed for post-season play the last fi ve seasons and have fi nished with a winning record the last fi ve years as well.

Wisconsin has fi nished third in the Big Ten Conference standings the last two seasons in a row, tying the third-best fi nish in program history.

UW is in a rebuilding year in 2011-12 after losing three starters and fi ve letterwinners. Included in the starters were the Badgers’ top-three scorers from last season.

Junior Taylor Wurtz is one of Wisconsin’s top 3-point shooters, connecting on 36 percent of her shots from behind the arc. The 6-0 guard led the Badgers with 46 treys in 2010-11.

BC’s most experienced players for 2011-12 are

junior guard Kerri Shields and junior forward Alyssa

Fressle, who transferred in from Colorado in the

summer of 2010.

Under Head Coach Sylvia Crawley, Boston College

has recorded the most points scored in program

history with 2,571 points in 2010-11. Since her arrival

in the 2008-09 season, three of her teams have

posted three of the top six highest points scored in a

single season.

Junior Kerri Shields made 85 three-pointers last

season. It was the second highest total in a single

season in program history.

The 2010-11 Eagles averaged 77.9 points per

game, breaking the old program record of 74.7 set

in the 1986-87 season.

BC returns only two starters for the upcoming season. The last time BC

did not return at least three starters was the

1999-2000 season.

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TEAMNOTES

TEAMNOTES

NC STATEWOLFPACK

NORTHWESTERNWILDCATS

KENDALL HACKNEYBONAE HOLSTON

HEAD COACHKellie Harper

HEAD COACHJoe McKeown

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

01 Myisha Goodwin-Coleman G02 Len’Nique Brown G03 Kim Durham G04 Tia Bell F05 Breezy Williams F11 Emili Tasler G12 Krystal Barrett G14 Paige Woodard G21 Erica Donovan F22 Bonae Holston F23 Marissa Kastanek G41 Lakeesa Daniel F/C42 Therany Dunnigan F44 Kody Burke F52 Kiana Evans F

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

1 Morgan Jones G

4 Kendall Hackney F

5 Alex Cohen F

12 Allison Mocchi G

14 Meghan McKeown G

21 Anna Cole C

23 Inesha Hale G

25 Brittany Orban F

31 Dannielle Diamant F/C

32 La’Terria Taylor G

34 Tailor Jones G

40 Kate Popovec F

42 Karly Roser G

Northwestern looks to replace two starters, All-American Amy Jaeschke and fl oor marshal and captain Beth Marshall, with a strong recruiting class, led by Morgan Jones, one of the most highly-touted prospects in the nation.

Northwestern enters the 2011-12 season coming off back-to-back postseason appearances for the fi rst time since the 1995-96 seasons. Additionally, the Wildcats fi nished their nonconference season with an 11-2 mark, the best non-conference performance since 1995-96.

Junior Kendall Hackney returns after fi nishing second on the team in scoring at 11.5 pointsper game and earning All-Big Ten Honorable Mention accolades.

Northwestern posted its highest back-to-back win totals since the mid-90’s with 37 victories over the past two seasons.

Head Coach Joe McKeown enters his fourth season at the helm of the Wildcat program and looks to take the team to its third-consecutive postseason appearance.

Head coach Kellie Harper begins her third season

at NC State.

Last year, NC State averaged 76.0 points per

game, the most since the 1994-95 season, and 43.9 rebounds, the most in a single-season since

1978-79.

Returning senior Bonae Holston is a fi rst team

All-ACC candidate and the league’s top returning

rebounder and third-leading scorer from one

year ago.

Junior Marissa Kastanek has made 122 three-

pointers in her fi rst two seasons, while sophomore Kody Burke averaged 11.0

points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.3 blocks in ACC regular-

season games last year.

Redshirt seniors Tia Bell and Emili Tasler are back

for their fi nal seasons. Both have struggled

with injuries at NC State. In addition, redshirt sophomore forward

Lakeesa Daniel returns after missing last spring semester

(academically ineligible).

The Wolfpack’s incoming class is ranked in top 30 by three outlets; 19th by

Blue Star, 29th by Premier Scouting and 30th

by ESPN.

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TEAMNOTES

TEAMNOTES

FLORIDA STATESEMINOLES

OHIO STATEBUCKEYES

SAMANTHA PRAHALISCIERRA BRAVARD

HEAD COACHSue Semrau

HEAD COACHJim Foster

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

00 Chasity Clayton F

03 Alexa Deluzio G

10 Leonor Rodriguez G

14 Tay’ler Mingo G

20 Kristi Mokube F

22 Olivia Bresnahan G

31 Ebony Wells F

32 Lauren Coleman F

33 Natasha Howard F

34 Chelsea Davis F

54 Cierra Bravard F

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

1 Kalpana Beach F

3 Amber Stokes G

4 Tayler Hill G

11 Shelbi Honeycutt G

12 Maleeka Kynard G

15 Aleksandra Dobranic C

21 Samantha Prahalis G

22 Darryce Moore C

23 Martina Ellerbe F

25 Amy Scullion G

31 Raven Ferguson G

33 Ashley Adams C

50 Emilee Harmon F

The Buckeyes returned three starters and eight letterwinners from a team that went 24-10 and advanced to its second Sweet 16 in three years.

Ohio State has been to a school-record nine consecutive NCAA tournaments.

The Buckeyes have won six Big Ten regular-season championships and four Big Ten tournament titles in Jim Foster’s nine years as head coach.

Senior point guard Samantha Prahalis is a preseason Wooden Award candidate. She entered the season with 707 career assists, an Ohio State record. She ranked third in the NCAA with 6.9 assists in 2010-11.

Junior guard Tayler Hill was named to the Big Ten’s All-Defensive Team while Ashley Adams was named to the fi ve-member All-Freshman Team in 2011.

Jim Foster is in his 10th season at Ohio State and his 34th overall as a head coach. Throughout his career his squads have made 26 postseason appearances, including 12 consecutive NCAA tournaments. His is the eighth-winningest active coach in Division I and is just the second collegiate coach – men’s or women’s at any level – to win at least 200 games at three different schools (C. Vivian Stringer is the other).

During the last seven seasons, Ohio State has the ninth-most wins (193) in Division I women’s college basketball and is one of nine schools to win at least 20 games over the last nine years.

A season after setting the school record by earning

the highest seed in school history at No. 3 for the NCAA Tourney, Florida State tied that mark in

2010-11.

A trio of starters with Iowa roots are expected

to lead the Noles in 2011-12: senior preseason

All-American post Cierra Bravard, sophomore

forward Natasha Howard, a 2010 freshman All-America selection, and sophomore point guard Tay’ler Mingo.

One of the greatest players in Florida State

women’s basketball history, Brooke Wyckoff,

begins her fi rst season as an assistant coach at her

alma mater. Wyckoff, who played eight seasons in the WNBA, was a freshman on

Sue Semrau’s fi rst Florida State team in 1997.

A major part of the Florida State women’s basketball

program is active community outreach.

The Seminoles take part in numerous community

service projects, including Samaritan’s Feet shoe

distributions. Head Coach Sue Semrau and her assistant will coach

a game barefoot during the conference season

for awareness for the organization, which

collects shoes and gives them to underprivileged

children across the world.

Bravard made 156 free throws a year ago, which is tops in the ACC. She shot

an impressive 78.8 percent from the line a mark that ranked third in the ACC

among players with 100 or more attempts.

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TEAMNOTES

MINNESOTAGOLDEN GOPHERS

KIARA BUFORD

HEAD COACHPam Borton

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

1 Rachel Banham G

5 Kionna Kellogg G/F

11 Leah Cotton G

14 Alex Ionescu G

15 Micaëlla Riché F

20 Kayla Hirt G/F

21 Sari Noga G

25 Katie Loberg F

30 Kiara Buford G

34 Shonté Clay F

41 Brianna Mastey G

43 Nicole Mastey G/F

45 Jackie Voigt F

55 Amber Dvorak C

Head coach Pam Borton enters her 10th season at

the helm of the Golden Gophers women’s

basketball team in 2011-12 as the winningest coach

in program history. She secured win No. 173 vs.

Northern Arizona on Dec. 23, 2010 to surpass Ellen Mosher-Hanson, who was

172-125 during her tenure with the Gophers from

1977-87.

Freshman Rachel Banham will see her fi rst action

with the Minnesota women’s basketball team in 2011-12 after being a part of head coach Pam

Borton’s No. 17 nationally ranked signing class last

November.

The Golden Gophers return four of their fi ve

starters from last season, including three of their top scorers from a year

ago in Kiara Burford (14.9 ppg), Leah Cotton (10.7

ppg) and Katie Loberg (9.0 ppg). Minnesota returns

82 percent of its total offense from 2010-11 in Buford, Cotton, Loberg

and the squad’s eight additional returners.

Senior Kiara Buford looks to become one

of Minnesota’s all-time top scorers in her senior campaign, as the guard

has the opportunity to surpass Marty Dahlen who

scored 1,345 points from 1978-82.

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WAKE FORESTDEMON DEACONS

SANDRA GARCIA

HEAD COACHMike Petersen

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

01 Brooke Thomas G

02 Erin Hall G

03 Camille Collier G

05 Chelsea Douglas G

11 Patrice Johnson G

13 Mykala Walker F

14 Lauryn Webster F

15 Millesa Calicott G

21 Sandra Garcia C

22 Lakevia Boykin G

23 Secily Ray F

25 Dearice Hamby F

31 Lindsy Wright C

33 Asia Williams G

Graduate student Camille Collier was poised for a big senior season in 2010-11 but suffered a torn ACL and was forced to seek a medical redshirt. Collier went on to earn her sociology degree from Wake Forest in April of 2011 and was accepted into the MA Education Program this fall. Collier received the prestigious NCAA Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enhancement Programs’ Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics, and will be one of the Deacons leaders on the fl oor this season.

Junior center Sandra Garcia gained international experience for the second-straight summer. In 2010, she played for Puerto Rico in the CentroBasket Championships, helping her team to a 5-0 record. That qualifi ed them for the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women.

Head coach Mike Petersen begins the season just fi ve wins away from becoming the school’s all-time winningest women’s basketball head coach. Petersen also began 2011-12 just seven wins away from 300 career victories.

Point guard Brooke Thomas is on pace to set the school’s all-time assists record this season. She is averaging 4.1 assists per game over her career. The senior is also currently doing an internship with the Offi ce if Investment for the University.

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TEAMNOTES

ILLINOISFIGHTING ILLINI

KARISMA PENN

HEAD COACHJolette Law

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

00 Karisma Penn F2 Centrese McGee G3 Taylor Tuck F5 Nia Oden F11 Eboni Mitchell G12 Lydia McCully G20 Alexis Burke F21 Macie Blinn G22 Ivory Crawford G23 Alexis Smith G24 Adrienne GodBold G32 Kierra Morris C34 Lana Rukavina F42 Amber Moore G

44 Kersten Magrum F

Illinois returns its entire team from last season.

In fi ve years under head coach Jolette Law, the

Illini have never lost in the fi rst round of the Big Ten

Tournament, have posted a 7-4 record at the tourney and twice

reached the semifi nals.

Karisma Penn was one of six players last year and

two among BCS schools to average at least 17.5 points and 10 rebounds

per game.

Amber Moore set an Illinois freshman record by making 65 three-pointers

on the season, the fi fth-best single-season total by

an Illini player in history.

Karisma Penn broke Illinois’ single-season

blocks record in 2010-11 and is on pace to become the Illini’s career leader in

that category.

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CLEMSONLADY TIGERS

SHANIQUA PAULDO

HEAD COACHItoro Coleman

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

02 Chelsea Lindsay G

12 Quinyotta Pettaway F

21 Nikki Dixon G

23 Chancie Dunn G

25 Kelly Gramlich G/F

30 Deja Hawkins F/C

31 Lindsey Mason F/C

34 Natiece Ford G/F

44 Shaniqua Pauldo C

Itoro Coleman begins her second season as the head coach at Clemson after going 10-20 in her fi rst season.

The Lady Tigers’ freshmen class was ranked 30th nationally by ESPN Hoopgurlz. Four of the fi ve players were ranked three-stars or higher, led by Natiece Ford, who is ranked 47th nationally.

In trying to rebuild the program, Coleman now has three former Lady Tigers on staff, including herself, Kanetra Queen, and graduate assistant Morganne Campbell.

The Lady Tigers return just one starter from last season – Shaniqua Pauldo. Pauldo is the leading returning scorer for the second straight season and the lone returning starter each of the past two years.

The Tigers return just four scholarship players from the 2010-11season in Shaniqua Pauldo, Lindsey Mason, Quinyotta Pettaway, and Chancie Dunn.

Clemson hit a school-record 191 three-pointers last season, but graduated 160 of those.

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TEAMNOTES

PURDUEBOILERMAKERS

BRITTANY RAYBURN

HEAD COACHSharon Versyp

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

2 Antionette Howard G/F

4 Torrie Thornton G

5 Brittany Rayburn G

15 Courtney Moses G

20 Dee Dee Williams G

22 KK Houser G

23 Liza Clemons F

24 Drey Mingo F

32 Sam Ostarello F

40 Chelsea Jones C

41 Alex Guyton F

42 Camille Redmon F/C

43 Chantel Poston G

54 Samantha Woods F

In 2010-11, the Boilermakers set a

school record for season free throw percentage,

connecting on 77.7 percent (505-of-650) from

the charity stripe. The 77.7 percent was fourth-best among NCAA Division I schools for the season.

In the last 15 years, Purdue has amassed the seventh-

highest win total among NCAA Division I teams.

The Boilermakers are the only team in the

Big Ten with a national championship in

women’s basketball.

Purdue has been in the top 10 in home game

attendance for the past16 seasons.

Purdue is coming off holding opponents to the second-lowest fi eld goal percent in school history.

Last year, the Boilermakers held opponents to an

average of 36.6 percent from the fi eld, including 30.3 percent from three-

point range.

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TEAMNOTES

DUKEBLUE DEVILS

ALLISON VERNEREY

HEAD COACHJoanne P.McCallie

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

1 Elizabeth Williams C

3 Shay Selby G

4 Chloé Wells G

12 Chelsea Gray G

14 Ka’lia Johnson G

15 Richa Jackson F

24 Kathleen Scheer G/F

30 Amber Henson F

32 Tricia Liston G

33 Haley Peters G/F

43 Allison Vernerey C

The Blue Devils return two starters -- Haley Peters and Chelsea Gray -- and eight letterwinners from last year’s squad that posted a 32-4 overall record. Duke registered 30 wins for the ninth time out of the last 11 years and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight.

In 2010-11, Duke hit 34.3 percent from behind the three-point arc. The Blue Devils return fi ve student-athletes this season who hit 14 or more treys, including Chelsea Gray (33), Tricia Liston (28) and Shay Selby (23).

The Blue Devils are coming off posting their third undefeated season at home in Cameron Indoor Stadium in school history. Overall, Duke has won a school-record 25 straight games at home dating back to the 2009-10 campaign.

Duke has brought in two straight No. 1 recruiting classes – in 2010-11 (Chelsea Gray, Richa Jackson, Haley Peters, Tricia Liston, Chloe Wells); in 2011-12 (Amber Henson, Ka’lia Johnson and Elizabeth Williams). The classes are two of the best in school history.

Duke is coming off winning back-to-back ACC Championships. The last time Duke won multiple ACC titles was from 2000-05 when the Blue Devils won fi ve straight.

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TEAMNOTES

INDIANAHOOSIERS

AULANI SINCLAIR

HEAD COACHFelishaLegette-Jack

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

1 Alisha Goodwin G

4 Linda Rubene F

10 Necole Sterling G

11 Andrea Newbauer G

12 Kristiana Stauere C

13 Candyce Ussery G

21 Danilsa Andujar F

22 Sasha Chaplin C

24 Aulani Sinclair F

32 Jasmine McGhee G

34 Georgie Jones F

40 Quaneisha McCurty C

44 Simone Deloach C

55 Milika Taufa F

The Hoosiers are 2-2 all-time in the Big Ten/ACC

Challenge coming off last year’s win on the road

at Clemson.

IU will be the road team for the second-consecutive

season in this year’s Big Ten/ACC challenge,

but Indiana is a perfect 2-0 in challenge games

that take place away from Bloomington. The Hoosiers won at Miami, 69-54, on Dec. 5, 2008,

and were also triumphant at Clemson on Dec. 2,

2010, with a 65-51 win.

Defense has been the key in each of Indiana’s

challenge wins in the last four years. In each

victory, the Hoosiers have held ACC opponents to

under 33-percent shooting from the fi eld, forced an

average of 19.0 turnovers in each game and

collected 10 steals ineach contest.

The Hoosiers return nine letterwinners from a

year ago and welcome fi ve newcomers to the

2011-12 team. Only two of the returnees were on the roster in each of IU’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge victories, senior Danilsa

Andujar and redshirtjunior Sasha Chaplin.

Indiana head coach Felisha Legette-Jack has been at the helm of the

Hoosier progrm for each of the four installments

of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. She is one of

nine Big Ten coaches who have been a part of each

annual challenge.

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TEAMNOTES

VIRGINIACAVALIERS

ARIANA MOORER

HEAD COACHJoanne Boyle

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

01 China Crosby G

04 Simone Egwu C

05 Erinn Thompson F/C

10 Kelsey Wolfe G

14 Lexie Gerson G

15 Ariana Moorer G

21 Jazmin Pitts F

23 Ataira Franklin G

30 Telia McCall F

42 Sarah Imovbioh F

50 Chelsea Shine F

The Joanne Boyle era begins at Virginia in 2011-12. Boyle is only the fourth head coach in the 38-year history of the Virginia women’s basketball program. A four-year letterwinner at Duke, she joins Itoro Coleman (Clemson), Sylvia Crawley (Boston College) and Katie Meier (Miami) as former ACC women’s basketball players now serving as head coaches in the league.

The Cavaliers return four of their top fi ve leading scorers from 2010-11, including senior Chelsea Shine, senior and recipient of last year’s ACC Sixth Player of the Year Award Ariana Moorer, and returning ACC All-Freshman team member and sophomore Ataira Franklin.

Chelsea Shine participated in Coach for College this summer, a global initiative to promote higher education. Shine, along with seven other student-athletes from the ACC, visited a rural area of Vietnam and put on a three-week camp for kids going into ninth grade. Shine taught morality and coached basketball during this camp.

Class of 2010 Virginia graduate and former ACC Player of the Year and ACC Defensive Player of the Year Monica Wright won the WNBA Championship in October with the Minnesota Lynx.

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TEAMNOTES

TEAMNOTES

MIAMIHURRICANES

MICHIGAN STATESPARTANS

LYKENDRA JOHNSONSHENISE JOHNSON

HEAD COACHKatie Meier

HEAD COACHSuzy Merchant

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

01 Riquna Williams G03 Stefanie Yderstrom G10 Michelle Woods G12 Krystal Saunders G15 Tyler Hobgood F21 Stephanie Gardner G23 Shanel Williams G24 Jessica Capers F32 Morgan Stroman F33 Suriya McGuire G34 Sylvia Bullock F40 Shawnice Wilson C42 Shenise Johnson G50 Maria Brown F54 Selina Archer C

ROSTER

No. Name Pos.

0 Kiana Johnson G1 Jasmine Thomas G3 Porschè Poole G4 Jasmine Hines C11 Annalise Pickrel F12 Tracy Nogle G14 Anna Morrissey G21 Klarissa Bell G22 Bryonna Davis G24 Courtney Schiffauer F25 Akyah Taylor F30 Lykendra Johnson F33 Taylor Alton G40 Madison Williams C52 Becca Mills F54 Kelsey Smith C

Michigan State is coming off its fi rst outright Big Ten regular-season championship in program history. The Spartans previously won titles in 1997 and 2005 as co-champions.

Suzy Merchant was named Big Ten Coach of the Year last season. Returning senior Lykendra Johnson was the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, while graduate Kalisha Keane was Big Ten Player of the Year.

MSU is one of 13 teams in the nation, and one of two in the Big Ten (Ohio State), to have won at least 20 games in each of the last eight seasons. The Spartans won 27 games last season, the second most in program history.

In conference play last season, Michigan State led the Big Ten in scoring defense, scoring margin, rebound margin, steals, turnovers forced, offensive rebounds and 3-point fi eld goal percentage defense.

The Spartans broke the school single-season record with 221 3-point fi eld goals madelast season.

Miami returns its complete starting fi ve, including

two of last year’s All-ACC fi rst-teamers in

Shenise Johnson and Riquna Williams.

Miami’s No. 3 seed in the 2011 NCAA Tournament

was the second-best seed in program history behind

the No. 2 seed earned by the 1992 Hurricanes,

who reached the Sweet 16 that season. The NCAA

appearance was the seventh in school history.

Miami head coach Katie Meier was named

the ACC Coach of the Year after leading her

Hurricanes through the ultimate turnaround

-- from fi nishing 12th in the league in 2009-10,

all the way to sharing the league’s regular

season crown last season. Meier, then in her sixth

season, picked up several high-profi le postseason awards for her success on the year. Meier was

tabbed by the Associated Press as its Coach of the Year, sharing the award

with Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma and Stanford’s

Tara VanDerveer.

Last year’s 12 ACC wins for Miami marked the most for the program

since joining the league to start the 2004 season.

The previous high for wins in the ACC was six during the 2005-06 season, with the team fi nishing sixth in

the conference.

Returning senior guard Shenise Johnson had one of the best seasons of any

player in the country last year, earning a litany of

awards for her efforts. In addition, Johnson has

been named the 2011-12 ACC Preseason Player of

the Year.

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