Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Despite some major personnel losses, Notre Dame women's hoops still has high expectations Unchanged Melody BY LOU SOMOGYI son: 6-8 Player of The Year Brittney Griner of defending national cham- pion Baylor (40-0 last year); 6-5 Elena Delle Donne, the nation's top scorer who has helped Delaware achieve prominence; and 5-9 Skylar Diggins, the country's premier guard who has been the centerpiece of Notre Dame's back-to-back appearances in the na- tional title contest. Because Notre Dame possesses one T here are three faces of women's col- lege basketball for the 2012-13 sea- ND SPORTS of the nation's "Big Three," 26th-year Fighting Irish head coach Muffet Mc- Graw is not as apprehensive of the void from her "Big Three" the past two seasons. Post player Devereaux Peters and guard Natalie Novosel were the third and eighth players se- lected in last spring's WNBA Draft, by Minnesota and Washington, re- spectively. "We still got the big one coming During point guard Skylar Diggins' first three years in South Bend, the Irish have posted a 95-18 record (.841 winning percentage) and made two back," McGraw reminded. "Anytime you have a team with Skylar Diggins at the point, you better not count us out. She's got the competitive drive, and she's going to get the freshmen in line." In addition to Peters' presence down consecutive appearances in the national title game. PHOTO BY JOE RAYMOND low that included averaging 9.3 re- bounds and 2.3 blocks per game, and