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Coach Muffet McGraw was not as excited as the 9,080 fans about fourth-ranked Notre Dame breaking the 100-point barrier at home for the first time in seven years in a 102-57 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Sunday night. "I don't care how many points we score," she said. " I'm looking at the other one, and 57 is just too many.  

Sitting on Purdue's bench during last week's exhibition game, KK Houser's leg wouldn't stop shaking. The nerves eventually settled down when the freshman guard entered against Lindsey Wilson College. That won't be a problem today for Houser, who is expected to be in the starting lineup when Purdue opens the 2009-10 women's basketball season against Western Illinois at Mackey Arena.

KK and Fahkara just cause major problems and we have players that are mobile. There are teams we'll have to play zone against but right now, the man-to-man has worked.   -Sharon Versyp

 

For the Purdue women's basketball team, getting stronger was the focal point of the offseason. According to coach Sharon Versyp, getting stronger is what she stressed to her players over the summer. "The biggest thing over the summer was to get stronger, to physically get into shape," Versyp said.

The biggest thing over the summer was to get stronger, to physically get into shape   -Sharon Versyp

 

New assistant coach Ukari Figgs is expected to help with recruitment and player development for the women's basketball team. A former Boiler guard, Figgs was added to the team's coaching staff in the offseason and has already made an impact on senior guard Jodi Howell's game. "She told me to keep my head up when I'm attacking off the dribble, because I tend to look down, and I didn't catch it for how many years?"

She told me to keep my head up when I’m attacking off the dribble, because I tend to look down, and I didn’t catch it for how many years?   -Jodi Howell

 

Season-ending injuries are nothing new to the Purdue women's basketball program. The Boilermakers played the 2007-08 season without starters Jodi Howell and Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton, but still managed to win the Big Ten tournament and earn a berth in the NCAA tournament. Now coach Sharon Versyp's team is moving forward again after sophomore Chantel Poston suffered an Achilles tendon injury in her right leg during Thursday's conditioning workout.

They've seen us do it and that's part of the battle   -Sharon Versyp