Notre Dame Women's Basketball: The Team and Its Record

Notre Dame women's basketball · the team and its record

Notre Dame women's basketball began as a club team in the middle 1970s, in the first years after women were admitted to the university as undergraduates, and it runs from those club seasons through a fiftieth varsity season in 2026–27: two national championships, nine Final Fours, seven championship games, thirty conference titles across four leagues, and a coaching line of four women, the third of whom — Muffet McGraw — coached thirty-three seasons, won 848 games at the school and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame while still coaching. One civic fact belongs at the head of the file, printed once and plainly, as it is in the football record: the university, and with it this team and its arena, stand in the unincorporated community of Notre Dame, a census-designated place outside the municipal line of the city of South Bend; the team is covered here in full as South Bend's own, because in every way that touches its history — its crowds, its hometown players, its place in the city's life — it is. The university itself stands in the Notre Dame record and is cross-referenced, not retold. The survey account of this program in the Sports record is expanded here to the full record: every season that matters at its documented size, the players at theirs, and the honors — championships, Final Fours, conference crowns, draft positions, Olympic medals — at their exact kind and count from the university's and the NCAA's records. Conflicts between sources are stated inside the entries, as they stand.