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James E. Delany James E. Delany Big Commissioner Big Ten Ten Commissioner
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Not only will Nebraska be competing for the first time as a member of the Big Ten Conference in 2011-12, half of the Husker roster will be competing for the first 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 first games as collegians this season.
NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS
Georgia Tech seeks its sixth consecutive 20 win season and sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011-12.
GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS
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 five seniors to replace the graduated Alex Montgomery and Deja Foster.
Kaitlyn Burke has demonstrated her outstanding character on and off the court in her time at Nebraska. The fifth-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 final five 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.
TEAM NOTES
LINDSEY MOORE
Tyaunna Marshall returns after a breakout rookie campaign, in which she earned Third Team AllACC, ACC All-Freshman and ACC All-Tournament Second Team accolades.
TYAUNNA MARSHALL
The Yellow Jackets return three starters from 201011: senior point guard Metra Walthour, senior center Sasha Goodlett and Marshall, a guard.
HEAD COACH
HEAD COACH MaChelle Joseph
Connie Yori
ROSTER
ROSTER
No.
Name
Pos.
00
Lindsey Moore
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
G
1
No.
Name
1 2 3 4 5 10 12 14 15 23 24 32 41 44
Dawnn Maye Mo Bennett Sharena Taylor Sarah Hartwell Metra Walthour Danielle Hamilton-Carter Frida Fogdemark LaQuananisha Adams Tyaunna Marshall Sydney Wallace Shayla Bivins Chelsea Regins Tjasa Gortnar Jasmine Blain
45
Sasha Goodlett
Pos. G G G G G F G C G G C F F G/F C
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.
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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.
MICHIGAN WOLVERINES
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 first 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 first ACC title in over 20 years in 2009.
MARYLAND TERRAPINS
Returning starters Rachel Sheffer and Carmen Reynolds return after averaging in double figures 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.
CARMEN REYNOLDS
ALYSSA THOMAS
HEAD COACH
Brenda Frese
ROSTER Name
1
Brenae Harris
2 4 11 12
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.
HEAD COACH
Kevin Borseth
No.
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.
ROSTER Pos.
No.
Name
G
00
Sequoia Austin
G
Courtney Boylan
G
01
Laurin Mincy
G
Jamillya Hardley
G/F
03
Brene Moseley
G
Sam Arnold
F
05
Essence Townsend
C
Kate Thompson
G
10
Anjalé Barrett
G
14
Nicole Elmblad
G
13
Alicia DeVaughn
C
21
Nya Jordan
F
21
Tianna Hawkins
F
22
Cyesha Goree
F
22
Kim Rodgers
G
23
Aquashia Anderson
G
25
Alyssa Thomas
F
24
Jenny Ryan
G
32
Whitney Bays
F
33
Carmen Reynolds
G/F
40
Katie Rutan
G
34
Val Driscoll
C/F
44
Rachel Sheffer
C/F
54
Kendra Seto
F/C 2
Pos.
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 finished her freshman year in the top five of the league in scoring and rebounding and No. 10 in steals.
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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.
NORTH CAROLINA TAR HEELS
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.
The Lady Lions return 88 percent of its scoring output from a year ago with 10 letterwinners, including four starters, back in the fold.
PENN STATE LADY LIONS
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 first accolades.
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 fifth with 154 career blocks, while senior Chay Shegog was 10th with 102.
TEAM NOTES
CHAY SHEGOG
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 threepoint field goals made, as well as the Penn State freshman scoring record as a rookie last season.
ALEX BENTLEY
HEAD COACH HEAD COACH
Coquese Washington
Sylvia Hatchell
ROSTER No.
Name
01
She’la White
02 03
ROSTER Pos.
No.
Name
G
2
Dara Taylor
Latifah Coleman
G
5
Talia East
Megan Buckland
G
12
Zhaque Gray
G
04
Candace Wood
G
15
Renee Womack
G
05
Shannon Smith
G
20
Alex Bentley
G
10
Danielle Butts
G
23
Ariel Edwards
F
11
Brittany Rountree
G
24
Mia Nickson
F
20
Chay Shegog
C
25
Gizelle Studevent
G
21
Krista Gross
F
33
Maggie Lucas
G
24
Whitney Adams
F
40
Marisa Wolfe
F
32
Waltiea Rolle
C
44
Tori Waldner
F
33
Laura Broomfield
F
54
Nikki Greene
F/C
44
Tierra Ruffin-Pratt
G 3
Pos. G
Senior Zhaque Gray made a marked improvement between her sophomore and junior years as she improved on her threepoint shooting by 11 percent (.303 to .414) and her field goal shooting by 8.5 percent (.338 to .423). Additionally, the Chicago native also nearly doubled her scoring output to finish fourth on the team with a 9.5 scoring average.
F/C 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.
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Dennis Wolff is in his first 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.
Iowa returns four starters from last year’s team that finished 22-9 overall and 10-6 in Big Ten play.
IOWA HAWKEYES
VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES
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.
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.
NIA EVANS
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.
TEAM NOTES
JAIME PRINTY
HEAD COACH
HEAD COACH
Dennis Wolff
Lisa Bluder
ROSTER No.
Name
03
Aerial Wilson
13 20 21
Brittni Montgomery
22
Porschia Hadley
23 31
Freshman Samantha Logic is the third McDonald’s High School All-American to play for the Hawkeyes under Head Coach Lisa Bluder.
ROSTER Pos.
No.
Name
Pos.
G
2
Kamille Wahlin
Alyssa Fenyn
G
3
Kalli Hansen
F
Nia Evans
F
4
Megan Considine
G
G
F
11
Trisha Nesbitt
G
F/C
12
Morgan Johnson
C
Larryqua Hall
G
20
Kelly Krei
F
Monet Tellier
G
21
Melissa Dixon
G
32
Taylor Ayers
C
22
Samantha Logic
G
43
Latorri Hines-Allen
F
23
Theairra Taylor
G
24
Jaime Printy
G
32
Jade Rogers
F
33
Kathryn Reynolds
G
34
Virginia Johnson
F
51
Bethany Doolittle
C
4
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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.
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.
WISCONSIN BADGERS
BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES
The Badgers have qualified for post-season play the last five seasons and have finished with a winning record the last five years as well.
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.
Wisconsin has finished third in the Big Ten Conference standings the last two seasons in a row, tying the third-best finish in program history.
Junior Kerri Shields made 85 three-pointers last season. It was the second highest total in a single season in program history.
KERRI SHIELDS
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.
TAYLOR WURTZ
HEAD COACH
Bobbie Kelsey
ROSTER Name
01
Alyssa Fressle
03 05 10 20
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.
HEAD COACH
Sylvia Crawley
No.
UW is in a rebuilding year in 2011-12 after losing three starters and five letterwinners. Included in the starters were the Badgers’ top-three scorers from last season.
ROSTER Pos.
No.
Name
G
00
Jade Davis
G
Tessah Holt
G
1
Kelly Supernaw
G
Marissa Mello
G
2
Taylor Wurtz
G
Kerri Shields
G
3
AnnMarie Brown
Shayra Brown
G
5
Morgan Paige
G
21
Kristen Doherty
F
12
Lindsay Smith
G
22
Joy Caracciolo
F
20
Lacia Gorman
G
25
Diedra Smith
F
23
Ashley Thomas
F
31
Tiffany Ruffin
G
24
Tiera Stephen
G
32
Victoria Lesko
F
35
Jacki Gulczynski
G/F
33
Korina Chapman
F
40
Anya Covington
F
44
Kat Cooper
G
43
Cassie Rochel
45
Katie Zenevitch
F 5
Pos.
G/F
F/C
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Head coach Kellie Harper begins her third season at NC State.
NORTHWESTERN WILDCATS
NC STATE WOLFPACK
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.
Northwestern looks to replace two starters, AllAmerican Amy Jaeschke and floor 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 first time since the 1995-96 seasons. Additionally, the Wildcats finished their nonconference season with an 11-2 mark, the best nonconference performance since 1995-96.
Returning senior Bonae Holston is a first team All-ACC candidate and the league’s top returning rebounder and thirdleading scorer from one year ago. Junior Marissa Kastanek has made 122 threepointers in her first two seasons, while sophomore Kody Burke averaged 11.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.3 blocks in ACC regularseason games last year. Redshirt seniors Tia Bell and Emili Tasler are back for their final 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.
BONAE HOLSTON
Junior Kendall Hackney returns after finishing second on the team in scoring at 11.5 points per game and earning All-Big Ten Honorable Mention accolades.
KENDALL HACKNEY
HEAD COACH
Northwestern posted its highest back-to-back win totals since the mid-90’s with 37 victories over the past two seasons.
HEAD COACH
Kellie Harper
Joe McKeown
ROSTER
ROSTER
No.
Name
Pos.
01 02 03 04 05 11 12 14 21 22 23 41 42 44 52
Myisha Goodwin-Coleman G Len’Nique Brown G Kim Durham G Tia Bell F Breezy Williams F Emili Tasler G Krystal Barrett G Paige Woodard G Erica Donovan F Bonae Holston F Marissa Kastanek G Lakeesa Daniel F/C Therany Dunnigan F Kody Burke F Kiana Evans F
6
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
31
Dannielle Diamant
32
La’Terria Taylor
G
34
Tailor Jones
G
40
Kate Popovec
F
42
Karly Roser
G
F F/C
Head Coach Joe McKeown enters his fourth season at the helm of the Wildcat program and looks to take the team to its thirdconsecutive postseason appearance.
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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.
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 BUCKEYES
FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES
Ohio State has been to a school-record nine consecutive NCAA tournaments.
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.
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.
One of the greatest players in Florida State women’s basketball history, Brooke Wyckoff, begins her first season as an assistant coach at her alma mater. Wyckoff, who played eight seasons in the WNBA, was a freshman on Sue Semrau’s first 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.
CIERRA BRAVARD
SAMANTHA PRAHALIS
HEAD COACH
Jim Foster
ROSTER Name
00
Chasity Clayton
03 10
Junior guard Tayler Hill was named to the Big Ten’s All-Defensive Team while Ashley Adams was named to the five-member AllFreshman Team in 2011.
HEAD COACH
Sue Semrau
No.
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.
ROSTER Pos.
No.
Name
F
1
Kalpana Beach
F
Alexa Deluzio
G
3
Amber Stokes
G
Leonor Rodriguez
G
4
Tayler Hill
G
14
Tay’ler Mingo
G
11
Shelbi Honeycutt
G
20
Kristi Mokube
F
12
Maleeka Kynard
G
22
Olivia Bresnahan
G
15
Aleksandra Dobranic
C
31
Ebony Wells
F
21
Samantha Prahalis
G
32
Lauren Coleman
F
22
Darryce Moore
C
33
Natasha Howard
F
23
Martina Ellerbe
F
34
Chelsea Davis
F
25
Amy Scullion
G
54
Cierra Bravard
F
31
Raven Ferguson
G
33
Ashley Adams
C
50
Emilee Harmon
F
7
Pos.
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.
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Head coach Pam Borton enters her 10th season at the helm of the Golden Gophers women’s basketball team in 201112 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.
MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS
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 floor this season.
WAKE FOREST DEMON DEACONS
Freshman Rachel Banham will see her first 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 five 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.
KIARA BUFORD
SANDRA GARCIA
HEAD COACH
HEAD COACH
Pam Borton
Mike Petersen
ROSTER No.
Name
1
Rachel Banham
5
Kionna Kellogg
11
Junior center Sandra Garcia gained international experience for the secondstraight summer. In 2010, she played for Puerto Rico in the CentroBasket Championships, helping her team to a 5-0 record. That qualified them for the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women.
ROSTER Pos.
No.
Name
G
01
Brooke Thomas
G
G/F
02
Erin Hall
G
Leah Cotton
G
03
Camille Collier
G
14
Alex Ionescu
G
05
Chelsea Douglas
G
15
Micaëlla Riché
F
11
Patrice Johnson
G
20
Kayla Hirt
G/F
13
Mykala Walker
F
21
Sari Noga
G
14
Lauryn Webster
F
25
Katie Loberg
F
15
Millesa Calicott
G
30
Kiara Buford
G
21
Sandra Garcia
C
34
Shonté Clay
F
22
Lakevia Boykin
G
41
Brianna Mastey
G
23
Secily Ray
F
43
Nicole Mastey
G/F
25
Dearice Hamby
F
45
Jackie Voigt
F
31
Lindsy Wright
C
55
Amber Dvorak
C
33
Asia Williams
G
8
Pos.
Head coach Mike Petersen begins the season just five wins away from becoming the school’s all-time winningest women’s basketball head coach. Petersen also began 201112 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 Office if Investment for the University.
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Illinois returns its entire team from last season. In five years under head coach Jolette Law, the Illini have never lost in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, have posted a 7-4 record at the tourney and twice reached the semifinals.
ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI
Itoro Coleman begins her second season as the head coach at Clemson after going 10-20 in her first season.
CLEMSON LADY TIGERS
The Lady Tigers’ freshmen class was ranked 30th nationally by ESPN Hoopgurlz. Four of the five players were ranked three-stars or higher, led by Natiece Ford, who is ranked 47th nationally.
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.
In trying to rebuild the program, Coleman now has three former Lady Tigers on staff, including herself, Kanetra Queen, and graduate assistant Morganne Campbell.
Amber Moore set an Illinois freshman record by making 65 three-pointers on the season, the fifthbest single-season total by an Illini player in history.
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.
SHANIQUA PAULDO
KARISMA PENN 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.
HEAD COACH
HEAD COACH
Jolette Law
Itoro Coleman
ROSTER
ROSTER
No.
Name
Pos.
00 2 3 5 11 12 20 21 22 23 24 32 34 42
Karisma Penn Centrese McGee Taylor Tuck Nia Oden Eboni Mitchell Lydia McCully Alexis Burke Macie Blinn Ivory Crawford Alexis Smith Adrienne GodBold Kierra Morris Lana Rukavina Amber Moore
F G F F G G F G G G G C F G
44
Kersten Magrum
F
9
No.
Name
Pos.
02
Chelsea Lindsay
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
G
C
The Tigers return just four scholarship players from the 2010-11 season in Shaniqua Pauldo, Lindsey Mason, Quinyotta Pettaway, and Chancie Dunn. Clemson hit a schoolrecord 191 three-pointers last season, but graduated 160 of those.
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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.
PURDUE BOILERMAKERS
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.
DUKE BLUE DEVILS
In the last 15 years, Purdue has amassed the seventhhighest win total among NCAA Division I teams.
In 2010-11, Duke hit 34.3 percent from behind the three-point arc. The Blue Devils return five studentathletes this season who hit 14 or more treys, including Chelsea Gray (33), Tricia Liston (28) and Shay Selby (23).
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 past 16 seasons.
ALLISON VERNEREY
BRITTANY RAYBURN
Purdue is coming off holding opponents to the second-lowest field goal percent in school history. Last year, the Boilermakers held opponents to an average of 36.6 percent from the field, including 30.3 percent from threepoint range.
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.
HEAD COACH HEAD COACH
Joanne P. McCallie
Sharon Versyp
ROSTER
ROSTER
No.
Name
Pos.
No.
Name
2
Antionette Howard
G/F
1
Elizabeth Williams
C
4
Torrie Thornton
G
3
Shay Selby
G
5
Brittany Rayburn
G
4
Chloé Wells
G
15
Courtney Moses
G
12
Chelsea Gray
G
20
Dee Dee Williams
G
14
Ka’lia Johnson
G
22
KK Houser
G
15
Richa Jackson
23
Liza Clemons
F
24
Kathleen Scheer
24
Drey Mingo
F
30
Amber Henson
F
32
Sam Ostarello
F
32
Tricia Liston
G
40
Chelsea Jones
C
33
Haley Peters
41
Alex Guyton
F
43
Allison Vernerey
42
Camille Redmon
43
Chantel Poston
G
54
Samantha Woods
F
F/C
10
Pos.
F G/F
G/F C
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 200005 when the Blue Devils won five straight.
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The Hoosiers are 2-2 alltime in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge coming off last year’s win on the road at Clemson.
INDIANA HOOSIERS
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.
VIRGINIA CAVALIERS
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 field, forced an average of 19.0 turnovers in each game and collected 10 steals in each contest. The Hoosiers return nine letterwinners from a year ago and welcome five 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 redshirt junior 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.
The Cavaliers return four of their top five 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 AllFreshman team member and sophomore Ataira Franklin.
ARIANA MOORER
AULANI SINCLAIR
HEAD COACH HEAD COACH
Felisha Legette-Jack
Joanne Boyle
ROSTER No.
Name
1
Alisha Goodwin
ROSTER Pos.
No.
Name
G
01
China Crosby
Pos. G
4
Linda Rubene
F
04
Simone Egwu
10
Necole Sterling
G
05
Erinn Thompson
11
Andrea Newbauer
G
10
Kelsey Wolfe
G
12
Kristiana Stauere
C
14
Lexie Gerson
G
13
Candyce Ussery
G
15
Ariana Moorer
G
21
Danilsa Andujar
F
21
Jazmin Pitts
F
22
Sasha Chaplin
C
23
Ataira Franklin
G
24
Aulani Sinclair
F
30
Telia McCall
F
32
Jasmine McGhee
G
42
Sarah Imovbioh
F
34
Georgie Jones
F
50
Chelsea Shine
F
40
Quaneisha McCurty
C
44
Simone Deloach
C
55
Milika Taufa
F 11
C F/C
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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Miami returns its complete starting five, including two of last year’s All-ACC first-teamers in Shenise Johnson and Riquna Williams.
Michigan State is coming off its first outright Big Ten regular-season championship in program history. The Spartans previously won titles in 1997 and 2005 as co-champions.
MICHIGAN STATE SPARTANS
MIAMI HURRICANES
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.
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.
Miami head coach Katie Meier was named the ACC Coach of the Year after leading her Hurricanes through the ultimate turnaround -- from finishing 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-profile 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 finishing 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.
SHENISE JOHNSON
LYKENDRA JOHNSON
HEAD COACH
Suzy Merchant
ROSTER Name
01 03 10 12 15 21 23 24 32 33 34 40 42 50 54
Riquna Williams Stefanie Yderstrom Michelle Woods Krystal Saunders Tyler Hobgood Stephanie Gardner Shanel Williams Jessica Capers Morgan Stroman Suriya McGuire Sylvia Bullock Shawnice Wilson Shenise Johnson Maria Brown Selina Archer
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 field goal percentage defense.
HEAD COACH
Katie Meier
No.
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.
ROSTER Pos. G G G G F G G F F G F C G F C
12
No.
Name
0 1 3 4 11 12 14 21 22 24 25 30 33 40 52 54
Kiana Johnson Jasmine Thomas Porschè Poole Jasmine Hines Annalise Pickrel Tracy Nogle Anna Morrissey Klarissa Bell Bryonna Davis Courtney Schiffauer Akyah Taylor Lykendra Johnson Taylor Alton Madison Williams Becca Mills Kelsey Smith
Pos. G G G C F G G G G F F F G C F C
The Spartans broke the school single-season record with 221 3-point field goals made last season.
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