Muffet McGraw is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on December 5, 1955 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, United States. Since 1987, she has been the Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s women’s basketball coach. She led them to four consecutive Final Fours. In 2001, she won the National Championship and was named Naismith Coaches of the Year.
She was the coach of She coached Ruth Riley to victory against Purdue in the 2001 NCAA National Championship Game., who won against Purdue at the 2001 NCAA National Championship Game.
McGraw was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Saint Joseph’s University and briefly played professionally for the California Dreams of the Women’s Professional Basketball League. She coached at Archbishop Carroll HS from 1977 to 1979, and worked as an assistant coach at Saint Joseph’s from 1980 to 1982. From 1982 to 1987 she was head coach at Lehigh University where one of her notable players was Cathy Engelbert.
She became head coach at Notre Dame in 1987. Between 1987 and 2020, McGraw led the Irish to 24 NCAA tournament appearances including a streak of 22 straight seasons from 1995-2019. During the current streak, Notre Dame made it to the second round in all but one of the appearances, including 7 championship game appearances. McGraw 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.
In 1977, she married Matt McGraw.
