Oddities and Entities

• To start last year’s season, 4 out of 5 players who first took the court had never played even a minute for Notre Dame previously! The starting lineup against Fordham had 2 freshmen, a transfer who hadn’t played (more than 39 minutes) in two years, and a transfer graduate student from Stanford. Only Mikayla Vaughn had played for ND the year before, averaging 10 minutes a game. And then Mikayla had to leave that first game after injuring her knee.

• ND’s two best players, by far, with regards to Efficiency Rating last year were Mikayla Vaughn (with an outstanding 26.3 adjusted for 40 minutes) and Anaya Peoples (with 19.0 adjusted for 40 minutes). Both do not qualify nationally as neither were able to play in 75% of the games.

• We had 4 McDonald’s All Americans last year.

• In this coming season we will have 5 McDonald’s All Americans and 2 more who were selected to play in the Jordan Classic game.

• Natalija Marshall height is listed as 6’3” by All Star Girls Report and is listed as a W/F

• Alasia Hayes is only 2 rungs further from the top, with a 32nd ranking, than Natalija on ASGR

• This year’s team has 3 players from ‘famous’ basketball families - Madeline Westbeld, Alasia Hayes, and Amirah Abdur-Rahim