Muffet McGraw

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Ann O'Brien "Muffet" McGraw (born December 5, 1955) is an American basketball coach, currently the head women's basketball coach at Notre Dame, where she has compiled an 800-229 (.777) record over 31 seasons. She has led her team to 8 Final Fours (1997, 2001, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2018), and won the National Championship in 2001 and 2018. McGraw has led the Irish to 24 NCAA tournament appearances including a current streak of 22 straight. In the current streak, Notre Dame made it to the second round in all but one of the appearances. McGraw graduated from Saint Joseph's University and briefly played professionally for the California Dreams of the Women's Professional Basketball League.

McGraw has compiled 50 wins over ranked opponents, including 40 over the last 8 seasons. Her teams appeared in the AP poll 139 times during her tenure. Notre Dame finished in the Top 3 of the Big East in 9 out of the 11 seasons they were in the league and finished in first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference in all 4 seasons since they entered the conference. Notre Dame also received 11 consecutive Top 20 ranked recruiting classes. She is the 27th coach in NCAA history to win over 500 career games, and is currently the 10th head coach in NCAA Division I basketball history to reach 800 career wins.

McGraw was awarded the US Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Coach of the Year award, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year and the Naismith College Coach of the Year in 2001. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. In 2016, the John R Wooden award committee recognized McGraw with the 2017 Legends of Coaching Award.

On April 1, 2018 McGraw achieved her 800th career victory at Notre Dame with a win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the National Championship game, marking her second national title with the Fighting Irish. She holds a record of 888-270 (.767) over 36 years of coaching, the past 31 years at Notre Dame.

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Awards and honors

2001--Naismith Coach of the Year
2001--AP College Basketball Coach of the Year
2001--Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coach of the Year
2009--Carol Eckman Award
2011--Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
2013--Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year
2013--AP College Basketball Coach of the Year
2013--Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division I Coach of the Year
2014--espnW Coach of the Year
2014--AP College Basketball Coach of the Year
2014--USBWA Coach of the Year
2014--Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coach of the Year
2016--Legends of Coaching Award (2017)
2017--Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
2018--AP College Basketball Coach of the Year