Basketball
See also: Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball and Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Arnzen | 1969 | Basketball player at Notre Dame and professionally in the American Basketball Association(ABA) and the National Basketball Association(NBA) | |
| Leo Barnhorst | 1949 | Basketball player at Notre Dame and professionally in the NBA and member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame | |
| Jacqueline Batteast | 2005 | Basketball at Notre Dame and professionally in the Women's National Basketball Association(WNBA) | |
| Dave Batton | 1978 | Basketball player at Notre Dame and for multiple teams in the NBA | |
| Elmer Bennett | 1992 | Guard at Notre Dame, in the NBA, and the Spanish Liga ACB | |
| Sandy Botham | 1988 MA 1990 |
All-American at Notre Dame and current head coach of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee women's basketball team | |
| Gary Brokaw | 1974 | Player and assistant coach at Notre Dame and NBA player, assistant coach, and director of basketball operations | |
| Austin Carr | Did not graduate | Naismith College Player of the Year at Notre Dame and player in the NBA | |
| Matt Carroll | 2003 | Shooting guard at Notre Dame and professionally in the NBA | |
| Russell Carter | 2007 | Shooting guard at Notre Dame and professionally for the NBADL's Tulsa 66ers | |
| Sid Catlett | 1971 | Player at Notre Dame and professionally for the Cincinnati Royals | |
| Adrian Dantley | 1976 | Oscar Robertson Trophy-winning forward at Notre Dame, in the NBA, and for the United States men's national basketball team that won the gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. | |
| Skylar Diggins | 2013 | Current point guard for the Notre Dame women's team; 2012 consensus first-team All-American and winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the nation's top women's point guard | |
| Megan Duffy | 2006 | Former point guard at Notre Dame and in the WNBA; now assistant women's basketball coach at St. John's University | |
| LaPhonso Ellis | 1992 | Forward at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| Colin Falls | 2006 | Shooting guard at Notre Dame and in Italy in Serie A | |
| Katryna Gaither | 1997 | Basketball player at Notre Dame, professionally in the American Basketball League (ABL), the WNBA, multiple European leagues, and member of the United States women's national basketball team in the 1999 Pan American Games | |
| Pat Garrity | 1998 | Power forward at Notre Dame who won the Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 1997 and professional player in the NBA | |
| Ben Hansbrough | 2011 | Guard at Notre Dame who won the Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2011 | |
| Bill Hanzlik | 1980 | Player at Notre Dame and player and coach in the NBA | |
| Luke Harangody | 2010 | Power forward for Notre Dame from 2006–10. Big East Player of the Year in 2008; three-time second-team All-American; only men's player in Big East history to average 20 points and 10 rebounds per game in conference play for his career. Currently in the D-League with the Canton Charge; has played in the NBA with the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers. | |
| Billy Hassett | Guard at Notre Dame and in the NBA | ||
| Tom Hawkins | 1959 | Forward at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| Ryan Humphrey | 2002 | Forward at Notre Dame, in the NBA, and in Greece | |
| George Ireland | 1936 | All-American at Notre Dame and college basketball coach at Loyola University Chicago | |
| Niele Ivey | 2000 | Point guard at Notre Dame, in the WNBA, and assistant coach at Notre Dame | |
| Tracy Jackson | 1981 | Player at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| Collis Jones | Basketball player at Notre Dame and in the NBA | ||
| Tim Kempton | 1986 | Center at Notre Dame and in multiple teams in the NBA | |
| Joe Kleine | Did not graduate | Center at Notre Dame for a year and professionally in the NBA | |
| Moose Krause | All-American in football and basketball at Notre Dame and coach for Notre Dame's men's basketball team | ||
| Rob Kurz | 2008 | NBA player | |
| Bill Laimbeer | 1979 | Center at Notre Dame, professionally in Italy, and professionally in the NBA and coach in the WNBA | |
| Michelle Marciniak | Did not graduate | Player for a year at Notre Dame, professionally in the WNBA, on the United States women's national basketball team in the 1999 Pan American Games | |
| Ray Meyer | 1938 | Player at Notre Dame and longtime coach for the DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball team; member of both the Naismith Memorial and College Basketball Halls of Fame | |
| Jay Miller | Player at Notre Dame and in the NBA and ABA | ||
| Beth Morgan | 1997 | Player at Notre Dame, in the ABL, and for the United States women's national basketball team in the 1999 Pan American Games | |
| Troy Murphy | Did not graduate | All-American center at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| Natalie Novosel | 2012 | Guard at Notre Dame and first-round pick of the Washington Mystics in the 2012 WNBA Draft | |
| Kevin O'Shea | 1950 | Four-time All-American guard at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| John Paxson | 1983 | Guard at Notre Dame and in the NBA and former assistant coach and general manager of the Chicago Bulls | |
| Devereaux Peters | 2012 | Forward at Notre Dame and first-round pick of the Minnesota Lynx in the 2012 WNBA Draft | |
| Chris Quinn | 2006 | Guard at Notre Dame and for the Miami Heat | |
| Alicia Ratay | 2004 | Player at Notre Dame who ranks fifth in all-time scoring for the school | |
| Ruth Riley | 2001 | Center at Notre Dame, in the WNBA, multiple European basketball leagues, and for the United States women's national basketball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics | |
| David Rivers | 1988 | Point guard at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| Karen Robinson | 1991 | Player at Notre Dame | |
| Ron Rowan | Did not graduate | Forward at Notre Dame for two years and in the NBA | |
| Donald Royal | 1987 | Forward at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| John Shumate | 1975 | Center at Notre Dame and in the NBA and coach at Southern Methodist University and in the WNBA | |
| Carol Shields | 1979 | Player on Notre Dame's first women's varsity basketball team and ophthalmologist | |
| Steve Sitko | 1940 | Basketball player and football quarterback at Notre Dame and professional basketball player | |
| Tom Sluby | 1984 | Shooting guard at Notre Dame and for the Dallas Mavericks | |
| Billy Taylor | 1995 | Player and assistant coach at Notre Dame and head coach at Lehigh and Ball State | |
| Chris Thomas | 2005 | Guard at Notre Dame and professionally in Spain and first player in Notre Dame's history to record at triple-double | |
| Keith Tower | 1993 | Center at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| Kelly Tripucka | 1981 | Forward at Notre Dame and in the NBA | |
| Gary Voce | Forward at Notre Dame and for one season with the Cleveland Cavaliers | ||
| Coquese Washington | 1992 JD 1997 |
Point guard at Notre Dame and in the ABL, former assistant coach at Notre Dame, and head coach for Penn State Nittany Lions women's basketball team | |
| Monty Williams | 1994 | Forward at Notre Dame and in the NBA and assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers | |
| Orlando Woolridge | 1981 | Player at Notre Dame, in the NBA, and in Italy and coach in the WNBA and ABA | |
| Luke Zeller | 2009 | Forward-Center at Notre Dame | |
| Babe Ziegenhorn | Forward for a year at Notre Dame |
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)