# 2009–10 Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team

The 2009–10 Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cornhuskers, a member of the Big 12 Conference, were coached by Connie Yori, and completed the regular season unbeaten at 29–0. However, they lost in the semifinals of the Big 12 Tournament to Texas A&M. Their season ended in the semifinals of the Kansas City Regional of the NCAA tournament, where they lost 76–67 to Kentucky.

## Offseason

* The Huskers will welcome three incoming freshmen to the program. The rookies will be led by 2009 Washington High School Player-of-the-Year Lindsey Moore. The 5-9 point guard from Kentwood High School in Covington, Washington. She earned third-team All-America honors from Parade Magazine after leading the Conquerors to the Class 4A state title and a final No. 2 national ranking in the USA Today Super 25 poll. California forward Meghin Williams and Minnesota forward Katya Leick are the other freshmen.
* May 7: Nebraska incoming freshman Lindsey Moore will be one of the nation's top 19-and-under players invited to the USA Basketball Women's U19 National Team Trials next week.
* Senior Kelsey Griffin was chosen as a preseason All-Big 12 selection by the league coaches for the third consecutive season.
* Nebraska was picked to finish sixth in the powerful Big 12 Conference in voting by the league's coaches announced on Thursday, Oct. 15, by the conference office in Irving, Texas.
* Nebraska's Kelsey Griffin was officially named one of 30 candidates for the prestigious Lowe's Senior CLASS award on Wednesday, Nov. 4, honoring women's basketball players across the nation who excel both on and off the court.

## Roster

| Number | Name | Height | Position | Class | Hometown |
| 5 | BurkeKaitlyn Burke | 5-07 | Guard | 3Junior | North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| 00 | MooreLindsey Moore | 5-09 | Guard | 1Freshman | Covington, Washington |
| 10 | WilliamsMeghin Williams | 6-01 | Forward | 1Freshman | Rancho Cucamonga, California |
| 11 | NealsNicole Neals | 5-06 | Guard | 4Senior | Chandler, Arizona |
| 12 | Reeves Layne Reeves | 5-11 | Guard | 1Redshirt Freshman | Lubbock, Texas |
| 13 | KuhlmannKala Kuhlmann | 5-08 | Guard | 4Senior | Charter Oak, Iowa |
| 20 | LeickKatya Leick | 6-01 | Forward | 1Freshman | Grey Cloud Township, Minnesota |
| 21 | SidhuHarleen Sidhu | 6-01 | Forward | 2Sophomore | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada |
| 22 | TurnerYvonne Turner | 5-08 | Guard | 4Senior | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 23 | GriffinKelsey Griffin | 6-02 | Forward | 4Senior | Eagle River, Alaska |
| 24 | KelleyDominique Kelley | 5-07 | Guard | 3Junior | Lincoln, Nebraska |
| 35 | PeriagoJessica Periago | 6-04 | Center | 3Junior | Toulon, France |
| 40 | MontgomeryCory Montgomery | 6-02 | Forward | 4Senior | Cannon Falls, Minnesota |
| 42 | BoberNikki Bober | 6-04 | Center | 4Senior | Murdock, Nebraska |
| 44 | RedmonCatheryn Redmon | 6-03 | Center | 3Junior | Grand Prairie, Texas |

## Schedule
### Preseason exhibitions

| Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Record |
| Nov. 3 | Devaney Ctr. | Pittsburg State | 68-54 | 1-0 |
| Nov. 8 | Devaney Ctr. | Nebraska-Kearney | 89-47 | 2-0 |

### Regular season

| Date | Location | Rank | Opponent | Score | Record |
| Nov. 13 | Devaney Center | NR | Davidson | 86-62 | 1-0 |
| Nov. 15 | Las Vegas | NR | UNLV | 73-51 | 2-0 |
| Nov. 19 | Devaney Center | NR | Idaho State | 88-41 | 3-0 |
| Nov. 22 | Devaney Center | NR | Washington State | 107-54 | 4-0 |
| Nov. 27 | Moraga, CA. | NR | UALR | 62-45 | 5-0 |
| Nov. 29 | Moraga, CA. | NR | Saint Mary's College | 84-73 | 6-0 |
| Dec. 3 | Devaney Center | NR | South Dakota | 77-38 | 7-0 |
| Dec. 5 | Coral Gables, FL | NR | Miami | 76-71 | 8-0 |
| Dec. 9 | Devaney Center | #24 | Creighton | 69-56 | 9-0 |
| Dec. 13 | Devaney Center | #24 | Northern Illinois | 69-44 | 10-0 |
| Dec. 20 | Devaney Center | #20 | #5 LSU | 77-63 | 11-0 |
| Dec. 30 | Devaney Center | #13 | Albany | 88-41 | 12-0 |
| Jan. 4 | Burlington, VT. | #12 | Vermont | 94-50 | 13-0 |
| Jan. 9 | Ames, Iowa | #12 | Iowa State | 57-49 | 14-0 (1-0) |
| Jan. 12 | Devaney Center | #11 | #19 Texas | 91-79 | 15-0 (2-0) |
| Jan. 17 | Waco, Texas | #11 | #9 Baylor | 65-56 | 16-0 (3-0) |
| Jan. 23 | Devaney Center | #7 | Kansas State | 71-56 | 17-0 (4-0) |
| Jan. 27 | Lubbock, Texas | #6 | Texas tech | 89-47 | 18-0 (5-0) |
| Jan. 30 | Boulder, Colorado | #6 | Colorado | 80-64 | 19-0 (6-0) |
| Feb. 3 | Devaney Center | #4 | #10 Oklahoma State | 88-67 | 20-0 (7-0) |
| Feb. 6 | Devaney Center | #4 | #12 Texas A&M | 71-60 | 21-0 (8-0) |
| Feb. 10 | Lawrence, Kansas | #3 | Kansas | 67-60 | 22-0 (9-0) |
| Feb. 13 | Columbia, Missouri | #3 | Missouri | 82-78 | 23-0 (10-0) |
| Feb. 17 | Devaney Center | #3 | #13 Iowa State | 60-50 | 24-0 (11-0) |
| Feb. 20 | Devaney Center | #3 | Colorado | 89-73 | 25-0 (12-0) |
| Feb. 24 | Norman, Oklahoma | #3 | #11 Oklahoma | 80-64 | 26-0 (13-0) |
| Feb. 27 | Devaney Center | #3 | Missouri | 67-51 | 27-0 (14-0) |
| March 3 | Devaney Center | #3 | Kansas | 77-52 | 28-0 (15-0) |
| March 6 | Manhattan, Kansas | #3 | Kansas State | 82-72 | 29-0 (16-0) |

### Postseason

Big 12 Tournament :
| Date | Location | Rank | Opponent | Score | Record |
| March 12 | Kansas City, Missouri | #1 | #9 Kansas State | 63-46 | 30-0 |
| March 13 | Kansas City, Missouri | #1 | #4 Texas A&M | 70-80 | 30-1 |
| NCAA Tournament ||||||
| Date | Location | Seed | Opponent | Score | Record |
| March 21 | Minneapolis | #1 | #16 Northern Iowa | 83-44 | 31-1 |
| March 23 | Minneapolis | #1 | #8 UCLA | 83-70 | 32-1 |
| March 28 | Kansas City, Missouri | #1 | #4 Kentucky | 67–76 | 32–2 |

## Player stats

| Player | Games Played | Minutes | Field Goals | Three Pointers | Free Throws | Rebounds | Assists | Blocks | Steals | Points |
| Bober, Nikki | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Burke, Kaitlyn | 6 | 5.7 | .286 | .200 | 1.000 | 0.5 | 3 | -- | -- | 1.2 |
| Griffin, Kelsey | 32 | 27.4 | .607 | .250 | .762 | 10.3 | 58 | 22 | 58 | 20.4 |
| Kelley, Dominique | 32 | 24.1 | .427 | .408 | .778 | 3.9 | 59 | 1 | 26 | 12.0 |
| Kuhlmann, Kala | 32 | 16.8 | .340 | .313 | .806 | 1.6 | 27 | 1 | 10 | 3.4 |
| Leick, Katya | 10 | 5.8 | .222 | .000 | .833 | 1.4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Montgomery, Cory | 32 | 27.6 | .503 | .380 | .792 | 5.2 | 33 | 7 | 17 | 12.8 |
| Moore, Lindsey | 32 | 27.4 | .349 | .266 | .690 | 2.2 | 141 | 6 | 43 | 5.8 |
| Neals, Nicole | 32 | 15.0 | .324 | .284 | .364 | 1.0 | 46 | 2 | 20 | 3.0 |
| Periago, Jessica | 28 | 8.4 | .302 | .238 | .286 | 1.7 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 1.2 |
| Redmon, Catheryn | 32 | 15.9 | .620 | -- | .275 | 4.6 | 6 | 63 | 13 | 4.3 |
| Reeves, Layne | 23 | 6.7 | .385 | .533 | .333 | 0.7 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1.3 |
| Sidhu, Harleen | 12 | 5.2 | .385 | .286 | .500 | 1.7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Turner, Yvonne | 32 | 26.9 | .406 | .368 | .694 | 3.6 | 51 | 4 | 62 | 11.8 |
| Williams, Meghin | 13 | 2.9 | .222 | .000 | .667 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 |

## Awards and honors
### Players

* Big 12 Player of the Year — Kelsey Griffin
* Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year — Yvonne Turner (with Brittney Griner of Baylor)
* First-team All-Big 12 — Griffin (unanimous selection), Cory Montgomery, and Turner
* Lowe's Senior CLASS Award — Kelsey Griffin

### Coach

All of the following were awarded to head coach Connie Yori:
* Naismith College Coach of the Year
* Big 12 Coach of the Year
* WBCA National Coach of the Year
* Kay Yow National Coach of the Year Award

## Rankings

Ranking Movement :
| Poll | Pre- season | Nov 16 | Nov 23 | Nov 30 | Dec 7 | Dec 14 | Dec 21 | Dec 28 | Jan 4 | Jan 11 | Jan 18 | Jan 25 | Feb 1 | Feb 8 | Jan 15 | Jan 22 | March 1 | March 8 | March 15 |
| USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll | NR | NR | NR | NR | 23 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Associated Press | NR | NR | NR | NR | 24 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| NR = Not Ranked ||||||||||||||||||||

## Team players drafted into the WNBA

| Round | Pick | Player | WNBA Club |
| 1 | 3 | Kelsey Griffin | Minnesota Lynx (traded to Connecticut Sun) |
| 3 | 25 | Cory Montgomery | New York Liberty |